Student Emergency Notification Policy

The College “Alert” text message system, email system, phone, voicemail system, internet site, and portal page are used for emergency mass notification. Mass notification to the campus community will be done in a timely manner upon emergency first responder confirmation of a significant emergency or a dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health and safety of students or employees, unless the notification at that time will compromise efforts to contain the emergency. 

Officials capable of initiating the mass notification include Sr. VP for Administrative Services, Director of Campus Safety, Director of Communications, Director of I.T. Services and their designees. The Mount Aloysius College Campus Safety Department, in partnership with Student Life and assistance from the Communications Department, will determine the content and use templates as necessary. The mass notification system will be used to notify the campus community when the emergency is over/all clear. Any notification to the larger community or media will be done by the Communications department.

Emergency response and evacuation procedure information is located on the orange sign in each room on-campus and the evacuation signs in the hallways. A complete campus emergency plan is located on the campus intranet: Log into MyMAC, click on “MAC Policies – Documents” and click on “Emergency Action Plan."

Timely Warnings

The Mount Aloysius College Campus Safety Department, in partnership with Student Life and assistance form Communications Department, to issue “Timely Warning” notices to the campus community on all major crimes or incidences of significance that occur on or adjacent to campus and are considered threats to the MAC community in compliance with The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). These warnings are to aid in the prevention of similar crimes and will be distributed through e-mail to the community and posters for Maintenance, Housekeeping and Food Service. The warnings are designed to provide timely notification to the campus community of a Clery crime or an ongoing threat to the campus community. The warning provides information regarding the matter in question, and provides appropriate safety tips. The timely warnings, where posted, will be removed in seven days.

The emergency mass notification procedures are tested by using the same system for campus weather delays and cancellations which happens at least once a year. Small samples of telephone numbers are used for testing throughout the year.