Creighton
CUAlert (CreightonAlert) Emergency Notification, Timely Warning, and Campus Safety Bulletin Policy
Creighton University notifies its community through CUAlert (also branded CreightonAlert), a multimodal voice/email/text system whose two Clery message types — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings — are reserved for safety threats meeting Clery criteria, while non-emergency safety information goes out as Campus Safety Bulletins.
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Creighton University
Private R2 · NE
~8,581 studentsCUAlert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Two Clery CreightonAlert types plus bulletinsverbatim
There are two types of CreightonAlerts specifically designed to alert the Creighton community of safety threats that meet the criteria of the Clery Act: Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings. For non-emergency or general safety information, Campus Safety Bulletins will be issued.
- — Establishes Creighton's three-tier taxonomy: two Clery CreightonAlert types (Emergency Notifications, Timely Warnings) and a non-Clery Campus Safety Bulletin. Identical wording appeared across multiple official Creighton retrievals.
Multimodal CUAlert definitionverbatim
CUAlert is a multimodal system that allows the University to immediately notify the campus community with timely information about emergencies, dangerous situations, or other safety and security concerns using voice, email and/or text messaging.
- — Defines the CUAlert channel set (voice, email, text) and immediate-notification purpose. Identical wording appeared across multiple official Creighton retrievals.
Emergency-notification confirmation triggerreconstructed
Emergency notifications are CreightonAlerts issued by the Department of Public Safety to immediately notify the campus community, upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving the immediate threat or ongoing risk to the health and safety of the Creighton community currently on campus.
- — Names the decision authority (Department of Public Safety) and the Clery confirmation trigger. Surfaced via the search index; creighton.edu returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false.
Acknowledge-to-stop delivery designreconstructed
CU Alert will send an alert to you as a text message first. If you acknowledge receipt of the text message within a minute of receipt, all further alerts will stop.
- — Documents the text-first, acknowledge-to-stop escalation logic that distinguishes CUAlert's delivery engine. Surfaced via the search index rather than a confirmed live fetch, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Emergency Notifications (CreightonAlerts) are issued upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat or ongoing risk to the health and safety of the Creighton community currently on campus. Timely Warnings are the second Clery CreightonAlert type for Clery-criteria threats. Non-emergency or general safety information is issued as Campus Safety Bulletins.
- Who decides
- Creighton's Department of Public Safety issues emergency-notification CreightonAlerts upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation. The specific position authorized to confirm and trigger a CUAlert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (creighton.edu / my.creighton.edu hosts and the ASR PDF blocked automated fetching).
- Timeliness standard
- Public Safety acts to 'immediately notify the campus community' upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation — consistent with the federal Clery 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard. The CUAlert delivery engine sends a text first and escalates through additional contact methods at one-minute intervals until acknowledgment.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Creighton defines two Clery CreightonAlert types — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings — plus a non-Clery Campus Safety Bulletin tier for general safety information. The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is published under the Clery Act and the Violence Against Women Act.
- Testing cadence
- Creighton asks community members to add and maintain alternate contact methods on the CreightonAlert website so alerts reach them; the exact published periodic test cadence (e.g., per-semester) for CUAlert was not confirmed verbatim in this review (official hosts blocked automated fetching).
- Scope & limits
- CUAlert reaches every faculty, staff, and student email account by default, and student cell phone numbers are automatically added to text messaging; additional/alternate contact methods are user-supplied. The acknowledge-to-stop design (text first, escalate through email/alternate phone/alternate email) is intended to confirm delivery and reduce missed notifications.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Creighton University, a private R2 Jesuit institution in Omaha, runs its emergency-notification program under the brand CUAlert — also written CreightonAlert / 'Creighton Alert' across the same official pages. Creighton describes it as 'a multimodal system that allows the University to immediately notify the campus community with timely information about emergencies, dangerous situations, or other safety and security concerns using voice, email and/or text messaging.' Student cell phone numbers are automatically added to text messaging, and the system reaches every faculty, staff, and student email account, so Creighton email is the default contact method with text and additional methods added by the user.
Creighton frames its Clery program cleanly: there are 'two types of CreightonAlerts specifically designed to alert the Creighton community of safety threats that meet the criteria of the Clery Act: Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings,' and 'for non-emergency or general safety information, Campus Safety Bulletins will be issued.' Emergency notifications are issued by the Department of Public Safety 'to immediately notify the campus community, upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving the immediate threat or ongoing risk to the health and safety of the Creighton community currently on campus,' broadcasting pertinent information via voice, email and text messaging.
CUAlert is engineered for delivery confirmation and redundancy: it sends a text first, and if the recipient acknowledges receipt within a minute all further alerts stop; otherwise it cycles through email, alternate text, alternate phone, and alternate email with one-minute pauses, then a three-minute pause before repeating the whole sequence. Creighton publishes its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report under the Clery Act and the Violence Against Women Act. The exact named position authorized to trigger a CUAlert and the precise published periodic test cadence were not byte-for-byte confirmable here because creighton.edu / my.creighton.edu hosts and the ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching; those fields draw on indexed snippets of the official pages and ASR and are flagged where reconstructed. The 'two types of CreightonAlerts / Campus Safety Bulletins' definition and the multimodal system description appeared with identical wording across multiple official Creighton retrievals and are marked verbatim-confirmed.
Takeaways
Key findings
Creighton's emergency-notification system is branded CUAlert / CreightonAlert (both names appear on official pages), a multimodal voice/email/text platform.
Creighton defines two Clery CreightonAlert types — Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings — plus a non-Clery Campus Safety Bulletin tier.
Emergency notifications are issued by the Department of Public Safety upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving immediate threat or ongoing risk.
CUAlert uses a text-first, acknowledge-to-stop escalation engine that cycles through email and alternate contact methods until receipt is confirmed.
The named decision authority and exact CUAlert test cadence could not be confirmed verbatim (creighton.edu / my.creighton.edu and the ASR blocked automated fetching); the two-type taxonomy and multimodal definition were confirmed verbatim across multiple official-page retrievals.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
3 documented times Creighton’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
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- Clery ASR
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policyemergency-notificationtimely-warningcampus-safety-bulletinprivate-r2nebraskacualertcreightonalertclery
Added 2026-06-22Updated 2026-06-22Via ingestion