Curtis
Campus Safety - Emergency Notification
Curtis Institute of Music, a roughly 175-student Philadelphia conservatory that grants both a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music, relays emergency messages through the One Call Now notification software by automated text, phone, and email, with timely-warning decisions resting on three named senior officials.
Read the official policyInstitution
Curtis Institute of Music
Private Masters · PA
~175 studentsOne Call Now
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
One Call Now notification softwareverbatim
Curtis uses the One Call Now emergency notification software to relay emergency messages to students, faculty, and staff in a timely manner, through automated text, phone, and email messages.
- Names the specific commercial platform (One Call Now) and its three channels: automated text, phone, and email.
Named timely-warning trigger officialsverbatim
When the senior director of facilities and campus safety, vice president of people and culture, or provost become aware of criminal incidents as reported under the Clery Act that, in the judgment of senior staff, constitute an ongoing or continuing threat to the campus community, they will issue timely warnings.
- Names three specific senior titles, any one of whom can independently trigger a Clery timely warning, rather than deferring to an unnamed office.
Physical security infrastructureverbatim
The campus has over 60 cameras which are monitored by trained officers on campus posts.
- Documents a specific camera count for a conservatory of roughly 175 students, an unusually granular physical-security disclosure for an institution this size.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Timely warnings are issued when the senior director of facilities and campus safety, vice president of people and culture, or provost becomes aware of a Clery Act-reportable criminal incident that, in the judgment of senior staff, constitutes an ongoing or continuing threat to the campus community.
- Who decides
- The senior director of facilities and campus safety, vice president of people and culture, or provost can each independently trigger the timely-warning process upon becoming aware of a qualifying incident.
- Timeliness standard
- One Call Now messages are described as relayed to students, faculty, and staff in a timely manner; a specific minutes-based numeric standard was not found in the public sources reviewed.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Curtis's campus safety team works with human resources to track and complete reporting under the Clery Act, UCR (Uniform Crime Reporting), and Pennsylvania's Act 153.
- Testing cadence
- A stated testing cadence was not found in the public sources reviewed.
- Scope & limits
- One Call Now delivers messages by automated text, phone, and email; specific registration or opt-in mechanics for the platform were not confirmed from the public sources reviewed.
ChannelsSmsPhone CallEmail
Analysis
Reading the policy
Curtis Institute of Music is a small, highly selective conservatory (roughly 175 students across its Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, Post-Baccalaureate Diploma, Diploma, and Professional Studies Certificate programs) whose graduate-level Master of Music program places it, by degree level, alongside this archive's other private, master's-granting institutions rather than the purely undergraduate conservatories. Curtis's Campus Safety page names its emergency-notification vendor directly: Curtis uses the One Call Now emergency notification software to relay emergency messages to students, faculty, and staff in a timely manner, through automated text, phone, and email messages, a three-channel design built around a single commercial platform rather than an in-house system.
What stands out in Curtis's public description is how narrowly and specifically the College names its own decision-makers for Clery timely warnings, rather than deferring to a generic "campus safety office." The page states that when the senior director of facilities and campus safety, vice president of people and culture, or provost become aware of criminal incidents as reported under the Clery Act that, in the judgment of senior staff, constitute an ongoing or continuing threat to the campus community, they will issue timely warnings, naming three specific titles (facilities/campus-safety leadership, the people-and-culture VP, and the provost) as the trigger points for a warning decision, any one of whom can set the process in motion.
Campus safety operations at Curtis are also documented at a level of physical-security detail unusual for a conservatory this size: the College states it has over 60 cameras which are monitored by trained officers on campus posts, and that campus safety officers actively patrol campus, prevent crime, provide safety escorts for students, respond to incidents and medical emergencies, provide safety education and awareness, and support community members and campus activities. Curtis publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report to meet Clery Act requirements, and its safety team coordinates with human resources to track Clery Act, UCR, and Pennsylvania Act 153 reporting.
Takeaways
Key findings
Curtis names One Call Now as its emergency-notification vendor, delivering automated text, phone, and email messages.
Timely-warning decisions can be independently triggered by any of three named senior titles: the senior director of facilities and campus safety, the vice president of people and culture, or the provost.
The College discloses a specific physical-security detail (over 60 monitored cameras) unusual for its small enrollment.
As a conservatory granting both a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music, Curtis fills a genuine gap in this archive's private-masters institution-type coverage.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Clery ASR
Tags
policyemergency-notificationtimely-warningclery-actprivate-masterspennsylvaniaconservatoryone-call-now
Added 2026-07-20Updated 2026-07-20Via ingestion