Dalton State
Roadrunner Alert
Dalton State College, a University System of Georgia state college that grants bachelor's and associate degrees but no graduate degrees, issues Roadrunner Alert messages by text, voice call, and email whenever dangerous conditions exist, drawing contact information from the College's Banner student/employee records via the Roadrunner Portal.
Read the official policyInstitution
Dalton State College
Public Bachelors · GA
~5,570 studentsRoadrunner Alert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
What Roadrunner Alert isverbatim
Roadrunner Alert is Dalton State College's emergency notification system that allows College officials to send critical information to the campus community through the use of text messages, voice messages, and emails.
- Reproduced identically across multiple independent search-result summaries of the official Roadrunner Alert page, describing a three-channel (text/voice/email) system.
Activation triggerreconstructed
A Roadrunner Alert will be issued when dangerous conditions exist.
- States the activation trigger as a short, unqualified standard rather than an enumerated hazard list.
Registration tied to Bannerreconstructed
Students are urged to update their personal information in Banner and sign up for the Roadrunner Alert emergency notification system to receive critical campus information.
- Ties Roadrunner Alert registration to the College's existing Banner student-records system rather than a fully separate signup process.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- A Roadrunner Alert will be issued when dangerous conditions exist.
- Who decides
- The Department of Public Safety, headquartered in the Health Professions Building, issues Roadrunner Alerts; a specific single named administrator with sole activation authority was not confirmed in the public sources reviewed.
- Timeliness standard
- A specific minutes-based timing standard was not found in the public sources reviewed.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- A specific verbatim Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning framing was not confirmed from the official Dalton State pages reviewed; the College's Department of Public Safety separately maintains Clery Act crime-statistics and campus-security-policy disclosures.
- Testing cadence
- A stated testing cadence was not found in the public sources reviewed.
- Scope & limits
- Roadrunner Alert delivery depends on contact information maintained in the College's Banner system; students and employees are urged to keep that information current to ensure delivery.
ChannelsSmsPhone CallEmail
Analysis
Reading the policy
Dalton State College is a public four-year institution in the University System of Georgia's "state college" sector, which awards bachelor's and associate degrees but not graduate degrees; enrollment reached roughly 5,570 in fall 2025, an increase of more than 20 percent over three years. The College's Roadrunner Alert page describes the system in plain, function-first terms: Roadrunner Alert is Dalton State College's emergency notification system that allows College officials to send critical information to the campus community through the use of text messages, voice messages, and emails, a three-channel design that does not depend on a single point of failure like text delivery alone.
The College's student handbook, published through its Department of Public Safety regulations, states the activation trigger directly: a Roadrunner Alert will be issued when dangerous conditions exist, a short, unqualified standard rather than an enumerated list of covered hazard types. Contact information is drawn from the College's own student and employee records system rather than a separate signup form: students are urged to update their personal information in Banner and sign up for the Roadrunner Alert emergency notification system, tying alert delivery to the same Banner/Roadrunner Portal accounts the College already requires for registration and coursework, which likely raises effective coverage compared with systems that require a fully separate registration step.
The Department of Public Safety, under the direction of Chief Michael Masters as of the most recent public listing, is headquartered in the Health Professions Building and can be reached at any time at 706-272-4461. A specific named administrator with sole authority to activate Roadrunner Alert (analogous to a "President or designee" clause found in some peer institutions' policies) was not confirmed in the public sources reviewed for this entry.
Takeaways
Key findings
Roadrunner Alert is a three-channel system (text, voice call, email) administered by the Department of Public Safety.
The stated activation trigger is short and unqualified: issued when dangerous conditions exist, rather than an enumerated hazard list.
Registration is tied to the College's own Banner student/employee records via the Roadrunner Portal rather than a fully separate opt-in system.
As a bachelor's/associate-degree-only public state college with no graduate programs, Dalton State fills a genuine gap in this archive's public-bachelors coverage.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- OfficialDepartment of Public Safety - Dalton State College Catalog (Student Handbook)catalog.daltonstate.eduarchived copy
- Official
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policyemergency-notificationclery-actpublic-bachelorsgeorgiastate-collegeroadrunner-alert
Added 2026-07-20Updated 2026-07-20Via ingestion