CCD

Emergency Notification and Alert Policy (Office of Emergency Management)

COSystem overviewAuraria Campus Emergency Notification System (Rave)medium confidence

The Community College of Denver shares the Auraria Campus and relies on the Auraria Campus emergency notification system — a Rave text-and-email platform in which CCD students, faculty and staff are automatically enrolled — with emergency messages issued by either the Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC) Alert System or directly by CCD's Office of Emergency Management.

Read the official policy

Institution

Community College of Denver

Community College · CO

Auraria Campus Emergency Notification System (Rave) / AHEC Alert

In the policy’s own words

What the policy says

Dual-issuer model on the shared Auraria Campusreconstructed

Emergency messages may be issued by either the Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC) Alert System or directly by the Community College of Denver (CCD).

— Defines CCD's distinctive shared-campus alert model: an alert may come from AHEC's system or directly from CCD. Surfaced via the search index; the ccd.edu host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false.

CCD — Office of Emergency Management (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)

Rave text/email closure notificationsreconstructed

In the event of a campus closure, delayed start or early dismissal, students and employees will receive a text message and/or email from the Rave Emergency Notification Alert System with current information.

— Identifies the underlying platform as the Rave Emergency Notification Alert System and shows it is used both for emergencies and for closure/delay/dismissal messaging. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false.

Auraria Campus — Emergency Notifications (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)

Automatic enrollment across the shared campusreconstructed

CCD, MSU Denver, and CU Denver faculty, staff and students as well as Auraria Campus staff, vendors and Auraria Early Learning Center parents are automatically enrolled in the emergency notification system.

— Documents the unusually broad automatic-enrollment population on a tri-institution shared campus, including vendors and early-learning-center parents. Surfaced via the search index, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false.

Auraria Campus — Emergency Notifications (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)

At a glance

How this policy works

When it activates: CCD/Auraria issue emergency notifications during an emergency or to notify the community of campus closures, delayed starts or early dismissals. Messages may originate from the AHEC Alert System or directly from CCD's Office of Emergency Management on the Auraria Campus; from the CCCS-managed system at the Lowry Campus; or from CCD's Office of Emergency Management or local leadership at the Advanced Manufacturing Center.
Who decides: On the shared Auraria Campus, emergency messages may be issued by either the Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC) Alert System or directly by CCD's Office of Emergency Management; the Lowry Campus messaging is managed by the Colorado Community College System (CCCS) office. CCD's Office of Emergency Management coordinates with Marketing & Communications on crisis communications. The specific position authorized to trigger an alert was not confirmed verbatim in this review.
Timeliness standard: The Auraria Campus describes sending text/email notifications during an emergency and ahead of closures, delayed starts and early dismissals; a specific 'without delay / upon confirmation' Clery timing clause for CCD was not confirmed verbatim in this review (CCD/Auraria hosts blocked automated fetching).
Emergency notification vs. timely warning: As a Colorado Community College System institution sharing the Auraria Campus, CCD's Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning obligations are documented through the Annual Security Report process; the precise published timely-warning criteria text was not confirmed verbatim in this review.
Testing cadence: Contact information for the Auraria emergency-notification system is uploaded from each institution's Banner Self Service portal each semester, and members are urged to keep numbers current. The exact published periodic test cadence for the system was not confirmed verbatim in this review.
Scope & limits: Automatic enrollment covers CCD, MSU Denver and CU Denver faculty, staff and students plus Auraria Campus staff, vendors and Auraria Early Learning Center parents; full reach depends on current cell-phone numbers carried over from Banner Self Service each semester. CCD's non-Auraria sites (Lowry; Advanced Manufacturing Center) are served by separate CCCS or local channels.

ChannelsSmsEmailWebsite

Analysis

Reading the policy

The Community College of Denver (CCD) is one of three institutions — alongside Metropolitan State University of Denver and CU Denver — that share the downtown Auraria Campus. That shared-campus arrangement shapes CCD's alert policy: rather than running a single standalone brand, CCD describes a layered model in which, per its Office of Emergency Management, emergency messages 'may be issued by either the Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC) Alert System or directly by the Community College of Denver (CCD).' The underlying technology is the Rave-based Auraria Campus Emergency Notification System (ENS). The Auraria Campus states that during an emergency or to notify the community of closures it 'utilizes a text and email emergency notification system to deliver important information to faculty, staff, and students,' and that in the event of a campus closure, delayed start or early dismissal, students and employees 'will receive a text message and/or email from the Rave Emergency Notification Alert System with current information.' Enrollment is automatic and broad: CCD, MSU Denver and CU Denver faculty, staff and students — plus Auraria Campus staff, vendors and Auraria Early Learning Center parents — are automatically enrolled in the system. Contact data is refreshed from each institution's Banner Self Service portal every semester, so members are urged to keep cell-phone numbers current. CCD's coverage extends beyond the Auraria Campus, and the policy is explicit that the issuing system depends on location. The Lowry Campus uses an emergency-management system managed by the Colorado Community College System (CCCS) office, from which urgent messaging originates during an event; the Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) may receive emergency communications from CCD's Office of Emergency Management or from its leadership directly. CCD's crisis-response process pairs the Office of Emergency Management with Marketing & Communications to deliver alerts through multiple channels. As a CCCS institution, CCD's Clery emergency-notification and timely-warning obligations are documented through the Annual Security Report process. Because CCD shares the Auraria platform, its alert governance is distributed across AHEC, CCD, and CCCS, and the precise named decision authority for triggering an alert (versus AHEC's) was not byte-for-byte confirmable in this review. The Auraria-platform host and CCD's .edu pages returned HTTP 403 to direct automated fetching, so the excerpts below were captured from indexed search snippets of those official pages; the automatic-enrollment and dual-issuer descriptions appeared consistently across multiple retrievals but are conservatively marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false, and overall confidence is set to medium.

Takeaways

Key findings

CCD shares the downtown Auraria Campus and uses the Rave-based Auraria Campus Emergency Notification System rather than a single standalone CCD brand.

Emergency messages on the Auraria Campus may be issued by either the AHEC Alert System or directly by CCD's Office of Emergency Management.

Automatic enrollment is unusually broad — CCD/MSU Denver/CU Denver faculty, staff and students plus Auraria staff, vendors and early-learning-center parents — with contact data refreshed from Banner Self Service each semester.

CCD's non-Auraria sites are served separately: the Lowry Campus by the CCCS-managed system and the Advanced Manufacturing Center by CCD Emergency Management or local leadership.

Distributed AHEC/CCD/CCCS governance plus 403-blocked official hosts meant the named decision authority and exact timing/test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim; excerpts are from indexed snippets and confidence is medium.

Provenance

Sources

Official
CCD — Office of Emergency Management
ccd.edu
archived copy
Official
CCD — Office of Emergency Management (overview)
ccd.edu
archived copy
Official
Auraria Campus — Emergency Notifications
aurariacampus.edu
archived copy
Clery ASR
University of Colorado Denver — 2025 Annual Security Report (PDF)
cuanschutz.edu
archived copy