Mines
Mines Alert and Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications
Colorado School of Mines's Mines Alert page is an emergency notification service for a campus emergency or weather-related closure, sending cell phone text and voice messages and Mines email. The Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications page issues Timely Warnings for Clery crimes that are a serious or continuing threat.
Read the official policyInstitution
Colorado School of Mines
Public R2 · CO
Mines Alert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Mines Alert purposeverbatim
The Mines Alert system keeps you informed in the event of a campus emergency or weather-related closure.
- Weather-related closure sits with campus emergency.
Mines Alert channelsverbatim
This system is an emergency notification service that allows university officials to quickly communicate emergency messages to students, faculty and staff via cell phone text and voice messages, and Mines email.
- Text, voice, and Mines email.
Timely Warning triggerverbatim
Timely Warnings are issued when certain crimes (see definitions below) that occurred on Mines associated property and within Clery Act geography that are considered a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.
- Clery geography. Serious or continuing threat.
Automatic enrollmentverbatim
Students and faculty are automatically enrolled into the Mines Alert system through the Mines Department of Information & Technology Solutions to receive emergency messages.
- Students and faculty auto-enroll. Employees must enter cell numbers on the consumer page.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Mines Alert for a campus emergency or weather-related closure. Timely Warnings for certain Clery crimes on Mines associated property within Clery geography that are a serious or continuing threat.
- Who decides
- University officials send Mines Alert messages. Timely Warnings are decided case by case.
- Timeliness standard
- Mines Alert is a fast means of communicating to the campus community. Not a minutes-based SLA on the quoted sentences.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The criteria page keeps Timely Warnings, Emergency Notifications, and Safety Bulletins as three products. Mines Alert is the mass-notification path.
ChannelsSmsPhone CallEmail
Analysis
Reading the policy
Colorado School of Mines (public-r2, Colorado, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes live Mines Alert and Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications pages (HTTP 200) plus a live 2025 ASR PDF (HTTP 200). Students and faculty are automatically enrolled. An Emergency Notifications sentence on the criteria page contains NBSPs and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML or PDF.
Takeaways
Key findings
Mines Alert covers campus emergencies and weather-related closures.
Students and faculty are auto-enrolled.
Timely Warnings are for Clery crimes that are a serious or continuing threat.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Official
- Clery ASR
Tags
policysystem-overviewemergency-notificationtimely-warningcoloradopublic-r2everbridge
Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion