CT State Three Rivers

Three Rivers Emergency Action Response Plan

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CT State Community College's Three Rivers campus in Norwich operates under a campus-specific Emergency Action Response Plan designed to protect staff, faculty, students, and visitors at properties the college owns, leases, or operates, using the Everbridge Alert System as its primary means of immediately advising the campus community when a significant emergency is determined.

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Institution

Connecticut State Community College, Three Rivers

Community College · CT

~3,300 studentsEverbridge Alert

In the policy’s own words

What the policy says

Purpose of the planreconstructed

The Emergency Response Plan has been designed to prepare members of CT State's Three Rivers Campus for potential emergency situations, and is intended to protect staff, faculty, students, and visitors at properties owned, leased, or operated by Connecticut State Community College through effective use of campus and outside agency resources.

— States the plan's protective scope explicitly by property ownership/operation, covering owned, leased, and operated Three Rivers sites.

Three Rivers Emergency Action Response Plan (captured via search-engine reproduction; ctstate.edu blocks automated direct fetch)

Everbridge as primary notification systemreconstructed

CT State's Three Rivers Campus uses the Everbridge Alert System as its primary emergency notification system to immediately advise staff, faculty, and students when it is determined that there is a significant emergency.

— Names Everbridge as the primary channel and ties activation to a 'significant emergency' determination, the standard Clery emergency-notification trigger.

Three Rivers Emergency Action Response Plan (captured via search-engine reproduction; ctstate.edu blocks automated direct fetch)

At a glance

How this policy works

When it activates: The plan is intended to protect staff, faculty, students, and visitors at properties owned, leased, or operated by the college through effective use of campus and outside-agency resources, activated once campus officials determine there is a significant emergency. As a Clery institution, Three Rivers separately follows the federal standards for emergency notifications and timely warnings.
Who decides: The Everbridge Alert System is used to immediately advise the community once it is determined that there is a significant emergency; the Three Rivers Campus President/CEO holds local operational authority over campus safety response, though the precise named activation authority was not independently confirmed in this review.
Timeliness standard: Not stated in exact language in the sources reviewed; Everbridge is described as providing immediate advisement once a significant emergency is determined, with electronic mail used for less time-critical follow-up information.
Emergency notification vs. timely warning: Standard federal two-track distinction applies (timely warning vs. emergency notification); the reviewed plan itself is framed as an all-hazards campus emergency-action plan rather than Clery-specific notification language.
Testing cadence: Not confirmed in the sources reviewed; a published testing frequency for the Everbridge / Informacast systems at Three Rivers specifically was not located.
Scope & limits: The plan is campus-specific to Three Rivers, one of twelve legacy campuses folded into the single accredited Connecticut State Community College in July 2023, rather than a unified CT State-wide emergency-management document.

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Analysis

Reading the policy

Three Rivers is one of the twelve legacy community-college campuses that were consolidated into a single accredited institution, Connecticut State Community College, effective July 1, 2023. Even after that system-wide merger, individual campuses like Three Rivers (in Norwich, on the site of the historic Norwich State Hospital grounds) retain their own campus-specific emergency plans; the Three Rivers Emergency Action Response Plan states its purpose is to prepare members of the campus for potential emergency situations and to protect staff, faculty, students, and visitors at properties owned, leased, or operated by the college through effective use of campus and outside-agency resources. Notification runs on three overlapping layers rather than a single channel. The Everbridge Alert System is used to immediately advise staff, faculty, and students by text, voice, and email once campus officials determine there is a significant emergency; electronic mail is used in parallel for less time-critical updates; and an Informacast system, which pages telephones and drives building loudspeakers, is used to reach people who may not be near a phone or a computer when the alert goes out. That layered design mirrors the standard community-college pattern of pairing a mobile mass-notification vendor with a legacy PA/phone system so that no single point of failure silences the whole campus. Administratively, the Three Rivers campus is led by a Campus President (also referred to elsewhere in the CT State system as a Campus CEO), a role that sits below the system-wide CT State Community College leadership but retains local operational authority over the campus's day-to-day safety response. The precise, named individual or office holding formal activation authority for an Everbridge alert at Three Rivers, and any published testing cadence for the notification system, were not independently confirmed in this review, since ctstate.edu blocks automated direct fetching of the plan PDF. As a Title IV, Clery-covered institution, CT State Three Rivers is bound by the federal two-track framework: emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat, and timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a continuing threat. The 2023 systemwide consolidation is itself a live compliance consideration for the archive: as the twelve legacy colleges standardize policy under one accreditation, campus-specific plans like this one may eventually be absorbed into a single CT State-wide emergency-management document, making the current campus-level plan worth capturing now.

Takeaways

Key findings

Three Rivers is a campus of the single, accredited Connecticut State Community College formed by the July 1, 2023 merger of Connecticut's twelve legacy community colleges, but it retains its own campus-specific Emergency Action Response Plan.

The plan's stated purpose ties protection explicitly to properties owned, leased, or operated by the college, and it activates once officials determine a significant emergency exists.

Notification is layered: Everbridge (text/voice/email) is primary, supplemented by general email and an Informacast paging/loudspeaker system for people away from a phone or computer.

The named activation authority and testing cadence at the campus level were not independently confirmed; ctstate.edu blocks automated direct fetching of the plan PDF.

Provenance

Sources

Official
Three Rivers Emergency Action Response Plan (PDF)
ctstate.edu
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Official
CT State, Three Rivers campus page
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Source
Connecticut State Community College, Wikipedia
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