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Campus Safety — Security Notifications, Timely Warnings, and Emergency Notifications (Rave / Standard Response Protocol)
Colorado College's Office of Campus Safety distributes emergency messaging through the Rave notification system, formatted using the Standard Response Protocol (SRP), and publishes a three-tier framework — timely warnings, emergency notifications, and security notices — to keep the community informed of potentially dangerous situations at or near campus under the Clery Act.
Read the official policyInstitution
Colorado College
Private Liberal Arts · CO
~2,200 studentsRave (Rave Alert / Rave Guardian)
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Timely Warning definitionverbatim
Timely warnings are issued to provide information about a potentially dangerous situation at or near Colorado College and to provide our students and employees with the information necessary to make decisions or take appropriate actions to ensure their safety.
- — Defines the Timely Warning purpose: enable informed decisions/protective action for a potentially dangerous situation at or near campus. Identical wording appeared across multiple official Colorado College Campus Safety retrievals.
Three-tier notification frameworkreconstructed
Timely warnings, emergency notifications, and security notices are issued to inform the community about potentially dangerous situations at or near Colorado College, enabling our students and employees to make informed decisions and take appropriate protective actions.
- — Establishes CC's three-tier set — timely warnings, emergency notifications, and security notices. Surfaced via the search index; coloradocollege.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution.
Standard Response Protocol usereconstructed
Colorado College uses the Standard Response Protocol (SRP) for all emergency messaging.
- — Documents CC's adoption of the Standard Response Protocol's plain-language action verbs for all emergency messaging through Rave. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch (coloradocollege.edu returned HTTP 403), so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Colorado College uses a three-tier framework: an Emergency Notification is triggered by an event currently ongoing on or imminently threatening campus (an immediate threat to health or safety); a Timely Warning is triggered by a crime that has already occurred on Clery geography but represents an ongoing threat; and a Security Notice is a broader advisory to inform the community of a potentially dangerous situation at or near campus.
- Who decides
- Colorado College's Office of Campus Safety administers Rave and issues timely warnings, emergency notifications, and security notices. The specific position authorized to confirm a threat and trigger a Rave alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (coloradocollege.edu blocked automated fetching).
- Timeliness standard
- Emergency notifications address current or imminent threats requiring immediate response and are issued through Rave; timely warnings are issued for crimes representing an ongoing threat so students and employees can make informed decisions — consistent with the Clery standard. The exact internal timing target was not confirmed verbatim.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Colorado College publishes a three-tier Clery framework — timely warnings, emergency notifications, and security notices — on its Campus Safety 'Definitions' page, maintains 'New Security Notices' and 'Past Security Notifications' archives and a crime log, and publishes an annual security report. Emergency messaging is formatted using the Standard Response Protocol (SRP).
- Testing cadence
- Colorado College maintains emergency-preparedness procedures and tests Rave; the exact published periodic test cadence (e.g., per-semester) was not confirmed verbatim in this review.
- Scope & limits
- All CC faculty, staff, and students automatically receive notifications to their CC email addresses, making CC email the guaranteed-reach floor; text and phone-call reach require individuals to register and manage their preferences in Rave. Emergency messaging follows the Standard Response Protocol's plain-language action verbs.
ChannelsSmsEmailPhone CallWebsitePush Notification
Analysis
Reading the policy
Colorado College, a private liberal-arts college in Colorado Springs, runs its campus alert function out of the Office of Campus Safety on the Rave platform (the vendor login portal at getrave.com/login/coloradocollege confirms the relationship). All CC faculty, staff, and students automatically receive notifications to their CC email addresses, and individuals can register with Rave to manage how they receive alerts by text, phone call, and email; the College also offers Rave Guardian for personal safety. Distinctively, CC states it uses the Standard Response Protocol (SRP) for all emergency messaging, so Rave notifications follow the SRP's plain-language action verbs (e.g., Lockdown, Secure, Evacuate, Shelter) — a deliberate choice to standardize the instruction set across incident types.
Colorado College publishes a clear three-tier Clery framework on its Campus Safety 'Definitions' page. A Timely Warning is triggered by a crime that has already occurred on Clery geography but represents an ongoing threat; the College states that 'timely warnings are issued to provide information about a potentially dangerous situation at or near Colorado College and to provide our students and employees with the information necessary to make decisions or take appropriate actions to ensure their safety.' An Emergency Notification is triggered by an event currently ongoing on, or imminently threatening, campus — an immediate threat to the health or safety of the community. A Security Notice rounds out the set as a broader advisory; CC states 'timely warnings, emergency notifications, and security notices are issued to inform the community about potentially dangerous situations at or near Colorado College.'
This three-tier structure (and the maintained 'New Security Notices' / 'Past Security Notifications' archives) lets CC distinguish an imminent threat requiring immediate protective action from a crime posing an ongoing-but-not-immediate threat and from lower-urgency advisories. The College frames the whole apparatus as Clery compliance, noting it must provide a timely warning of any crime that represents an ongoing threat, maintain a crime log, and publish an annual security report.
The timely-warning definition appeared with identical wording across multiple official CC retrievals and is marked verbatim-confirmed. The exact named decision authority, the precise Security Notice definition sentence, and the published periodic Rave test cadence were not surfaced byte-for-byte in this review (coloradocollege.edu and the ASR PDF 403-block automated fetching here), so those fields draw on indexed snippets and are flagged where reconstructed.
Takeaways
Key findings
Colorado College's emergency-notification platform is Rave (Rave Alert / Rave Guardian); the vendor relationship is confirmed by CC's getrave.com login portal.
All faculty, staff, and students automatically receive notifications to their CC email addresses; text and phone-call reach require registering preferences in Rave.
CC formats emergency messaging using the Standard Response Protocol (SRP), standardizing plain-language action verbs across incident types.
Colorado College publishes a three-tier Clery framework — timely warnings, emergency notifications, and security notices — with maintained 'New' and 'Past' security-notification archives.
The timely-warning definition was confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals; the named decision authority, the exact Security Notice sentence, and the test cadence could not be confirmed (coloradocollege.edu blocked automated fetching).
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
1 documented time CC’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
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Added 2026-06-22Updated 2026-06-22Via ingestion