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Procedure 901: Emergency Notification
The College of Eastern Idaho, the two-year technical college in Idaho Falls formerly known as Eastern Idaho Technical College, uses the RAVE Alert system under its named Procedure 901: Emergency Notification, defining an Emergency Notification as a time sensitive communication intended to minimize injury or fatality and a Timely Warning as required for any Clery Act crime representing an ongoing threat, with the Campus Safety department managing the system and testing it at least once each year.
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What the policy says
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College of Eastern Idaho, Procedure 901: Emergency Notification (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Emergency Notifications are time sensitive communication intended to minimize injury or fatality of the target audience, communicated upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. Timely Warnings are communicated for any Clery Act crime that represents an ongoing threat to the safety of students and employees.
- Who decides
- Specific positions are authorized to send approved messages using the RAVE Alert System, and the Campus Safety department manages the RAVE Alert System with assistance from the IT organization.
- Timeliness standard
- For weather closures specifically, every effort is made to send notifications by 6:30 A.M. for morning closures and 3:30 P.M. for evening closures; a general live-incident minutes based standard beyond time sensitive was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Procedure 901 names both Clery categories inside a single document: Emergency Notifications, defined around minimizing injury or fatality, and Timely Warnings, defined around any Clery Act crime representing an ongoing threat.
- Testing cadence
- The notification system is tested at least once each year, unless a notification has already been sent for an incident that year; test messages must clearly state This is a Test at the beginning of the message.
- Scope & limits
- Notifications are sent through RAVE mobile safety, the CEI website, and local news media via radio and television. CEI email notifications are the minimum notification and cannot be modified or opted out of; faculty, staff, and students may additionally personalize settings by registering at getrave.com/login/CEI.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
The College of Eastern Idaho, renamed from Eastern Idaho Technical College, documents its notification duties in a specifically numbered procedure, Procedure 901: Emergency Notification, stating that CEI utilizes the RAVE Alert system to communicate emergency notifications in a timely manner to enhance the safety and security of faculty, staff, and students, and that these notifications meet the requirements for both Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications under the Clery Act within a single named procedure. The procedure defines Emergency Notifications as time sensitive communication intended to minimize injury or fatality of the target audience, while Timely Warnings are communicated for any Clery Act crime that represents an ongoing threat to the safety of students and employees, cleanly separating the two categories inside one document rather than splitting them across a webpage and a separate ASR section.
Decision authority is scoped to specific named positions authorized to send approved messages using the RAVE Alert System, with the college's Campus Safety department managing the system with assistance from the IT organization. CEI states notifications will be sent through RAVE mobile safety, the CEI website, and local news media via radio and television, and for routine weather closures specifically, the procedure commits to every effort to send notifications by 6:30 A.M. for morning closures and 3:30 P.M. for evening closures, an unusually precise operational commitment for a small technical college. Faculty, staff, and students personalize their notification settings at getrave.com/login/CEI, though CEI email notifications are described as the minimum notification that may not be modified and do not require account creation. The system is tested at least once each year unless a live notification has already been sent for an incident that year, and test messages must clearly state This is a Test at the beginning of the message, with certain messages pre-approved so authorized individuals can send them quickly in applicable emergencies.
Because cei.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official procedure page rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.
Takeaways
Key findings
College of Eastern Idaho (formerly Eastern Idaho Technical College) documents both Clery categories, Emergency Notification and Timely Warning, inside a single named Procedure 901.
Decision authority rests with specific named positions authorized to send RAVE Alert messages, managed by the Campus Safety department with IT support.
Weather closures carry a specific clock-time commitment, 6:30 A.M. for morning closures and 3:30 P.M. for evening closures.
The system is tested at least once each year with a required This is a Test disclaimer.
Cei.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
1 documented time CEI’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
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Added 2026-09-27Updated 2026-09-27Via ingestion