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Aims Community College Emergency Operations Plan, 2025, Annex 2 (Communications and Notifications)
Aims Community College's 2025 Emergency Operations Plan structures its notification duties as Annex 2, Communications and Notifications, with a dedicated Appendix 3, a Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Statement, sitting inside the broader all-hazards plan rather than as a standalone Clery document, and the college's Director of Campus Safety and Security is named as the official who can stand up an alternate Emergency Operations Center.
Read the official policyInstitution
Aims Community College
Community College · CO
~11,372 studentsRave Alerts
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Annex 2 and Appendix 3 structurereconstructed
Annex 2: Communications and Notifications. Appendix 3 to Annex 2: Timely Warning & Emergency Notification Statement.
- — Reconstructed from the plan's indexed table-of-contents structure rather than a directly loaded copy of the document; presented as the closest available approximation of the actual section headings, not a certified quotation.
- — Shows that the Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Statement is embedded as an appendix inside the broader Communications and Notifications annex, not published as its own standalone document, which is the basis for this record's emergency-operations-plan classification.
Rave registration channelreconstructed
Register or update your contact information in Rave Mobile Safety to receive weather and emergency closure notifications.
- — Documents the Rave-based self-registration channel that feeds the college's text and email alert system, referenced separately from the EOP itself.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- The EOP's Response phase triggers plan activation and formal notification procedures. Within that structure, Appendix 3 to Annex 2 (Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Statement) is the Clery-facing component that governs when a timely warning or emergency notification specifically, as opposed to a broader EOP activation, is issued; the specific triggering language in that appendix was not independently retrievable in this review.
- Who decides
- The Director of Campus Safety and Security is named in indexed plan content as authorized to identify and establish an alternate Emergency Operations Center if the primary EOC is unavailable, and is described as involved in emergency operations decision-making generally. The specific named authority for launching a Clery timely warning or emergency notification under Appendix 3 was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.
- Timeliness standard
- Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed. As a Clery-covered institution, Aims is bound by the federal standard of emergency notifications issued immediately upon confirmation and timely warnings issued as soon as pertinent information is available; the plan's own stated timing language in Appendix 3 could not be independently retrieved.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Aims folds its Clery timely warning and emergency notification obligations into Appendix 3 of Annex 2 (Communications and Notifications) inside the full Emergency Operations Plan, rather than publishing them as a standalone Clery policy separate from the EOP, which is why this record is classified as an emergency-operations-plan rather than a standalone-policy or sop entry.
- Testing cadence
- Not specified in the sources reviewed.
- Scope & limits
- Notification channels layer a Rave-based text/email/voice system, a website pop-up banner for weather and closures, physical Alert Beacons in every building on all campuses, and the Aims Guardian app; the specific geographic and crime-type scope of Appendix 3's Clery-facing statement was not independently confirmed.
ChannelsSmsEmailPhone CallWebsiteUnknown
Analysis
Reading the policy
Aims Community College, a two-year public college based in Greeley, Colorado with additional campuses across Weld County, structures its notification obligations inside its full Emergency Operations Plan rather than in a standalone Clery-only document. This record is included as an emergency-operations-plan entry, not a standalone-SOP entry, precisely because its Timely Warning and Emergency Notification content lives inside Annex 2 of the broader all-hazards EOP rather than as its own free-standing procedure; that distinction is the reason this file carries documentType emergency-operations-plan.
The plan's structure is unusually explicit about where notification duties sit. Annex 2 of the 2025 plan is titled Communications and Notifications, and within it, Appendix 3 is specifically labeled a Timely Warning and Emergency Notification Statement, the Clery-facing piece embedded inside the college's broader communications annex. The U.S. Department of Education's REMS technical-assistance center separately mirrors part of this same plan as a standalone Communication and Notification Annex, indicating the annex is treated as a distinct operational module even though it lives inside the full EOP rather than as its own document.
Operationally, Aims layers its notification channels: registered students and employees are added to the Rave notification platform through MyAims, weather and emergency closures trigger a pop-up banner on the college website, and yellow audio/visual Alert Beacons installed in every building on all campuses display current alert status, a physical, always-on channel layered on top of the text/email/voice Rave system and the Aims Guardian safety app. The college's Director of Campus Safety and Security is named in indexed plan content as the official authorized to identify and establish an alternate Emergency Operations Center if the primary location becomes unavailable, indicating that role carries operational authority within the plan's command structure, though the specific chain of authority for launching a Clery-triggered notification itself was not independently confirmed.
Because aims.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment (and the U.S. Department of Education's REMS mirror of the same plan at rems.ed.gov could not be resolved from this environment either), the passages above are reconstructed from search-engine-indexed extracts and structural references to the plan rather than a firsthand line-by-line read of Annex 2 or Appendix 3. No excerpt below is treated as a confirmed exact quotation, and this record carries a low confidence rating on that basis, consistent with how this archive handles other 403-blocked, structurally-confirmed-but-textually-unverified plans.
Takeaways
Key findings
Aims Community College's Clery notification content is embedded as Appendix 3 to Annex 2 (Communications and Notifications) inside its full 2025 Emergency Operations Plan, rather than published as a standalone timely-warning or emergency-notification document, which is why this record carries documentType emergency-operations-plan rather than sop.
The college layers a Rave-based text/email/voice system, a website closure banner, physical Alert Beacons in every campus building, and the Aims Guardian app as its notification channel mix.
The Director of Campus Safety and Security is named in indexed plan content as authorized to stand up an alternate Emergency Operations Center, indicating operational command authority within the plan, though the specific Clery notification decision chain was not independently confirmed.
Neither aims.edu nor the U.S. Department of Education's REMS mirror of the same plan could be directly loaded in this environment, so this record's confidence is set to low and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
1 documented time Aims’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
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Tags
policyemergency-operations-plantimely-warningemergency-notificationclery-actravecommunity-collegecolorado
Added 2026-07-03Updated 2026-07-03Via ingestion