Delta

Timely Warning, Emergency Response, and Evacuation Procedures (ASR)

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Delta College's 2025 Annual Security Report assigns Emergency Notification authorization to the Vice President of Business and Finance with Director of Public Safety distribution, allows the Director to send immediately without prior approval when needed, and brands Nixle / DELTAEMG as the emergency messaging path.

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Institution

Delta College

Community College · MI

~8,000 studentsNixle / DELTAEMG

In the policy’s own words

What the policy says

VP Business and Finance authorizes ENverbatim

The Vice President of Business and Finance is responsible for authorizing the Emergency Notification and communicating the authorization to the Director of Public Safety.

Named VP role for EN authorization.

Delta College 2025 ASR EN authorization

Director may send immediately without approval delayverbatim

In instances where in the best judgement of the Director of Public Safety an Emergency Notification should be issued immediately and without delay for the approval process, the Director of Public Safety or his/her designee may immediately distribute an Emergency Message. If the Vice President of Business and Finance (or their designee) later determine that an Emergency Message was not needed, the message may be cancelled and retracted.

Local bypass and cancel/retract rule.

Delta College 2025 ASR

TW evaluated by Director and VPverbatim

Timely warnings are evaluated, drafted, and distributed by the Director of Public Safety, the Vice President of Business and Finance or their designees. Timely warnings may be evaluated in conjunction with the Title IX Coordinator when complaints of an applicable incident are made solely to the Title IX Coordinator.

Named TW drafting/distribution roles plus Title IX path.

Delta College 2025 ASR Timely Warning Procedure

Nixle and email dissemination channelsverbatim

Posting on one or more of the following: a. The College emergency messaging system; Nixle. b. The Department of Public Safety website c. Delta College main website alert box d. An email message sent with detailed information to everyone with a current Delta College email account.

Branded Nixle emergency messaging system.

Delta College 2025 ASR TW channels

DELTAEMG SMS keyword to 888777verbatim

Using your mobile phone, text DELTAEMG to 888777

Local SMS keyword and short code.

Delta College 2025 ASR signup

At a glance

How this policy works

When it activates: Emergency Notification for immediate or imminent threats (examples include extreme weather/tornado, chemical release, fire, serious illness outbreak, armed intruder, bomb/terrorist threat, civil unrest). Timely Warnings for Clery crimes on Clery geography that pose potential ongoing or serious threat after DCDPS identifies the report.
Who decides: VP of Business and Finance authorizes Emergency Notifications and communicates authorization to the Director of Public Safety; Director may immediately distribute without prior approval when judgment requires no delay, with later cancel/retract by VP. Timely warnings evaluated, drafted, and distributed by Director of Public Safety and VP Business and Finance or designees (with Title IX when applicable).
Timeliness standard: Without unnecessary delay for EN unless professional judgment finds compromise of victim assistance or mitigation; Director may bypass approval delay when immediate distribution is required.
Emergency notification vs. timely warning: ASR separates Timely Warning (crimes already occurred, ongoing threat) from Emergency Notification (immediate/imminent threat) with DCDPS geography and Clery crime framing.
Testing cadence: Not fully extracted in the Timely Warning / EN sections reviewed; see full ASR for drill/testing details.
Scope & limits: May target segments of the campus community; message may include nature, location/date/time, suspect description, recommended actions, and DCDPS contact number.

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Analysis

Reading the policy

Delta College (University Center, Michigan) documents EN and timely-warning practice in its 2025 ASR. Institution-specific content includes a named VP Business and Finance authorization step, a written exception allowing the Director of Public Safety to fire an Emergency Message without waiting for approval (with later cancel/retract authority), Nixle as the emergency messaging system, SMS keyword DELTAEMG to 888777, and TW drafting by the Director and VP (with Title IX when applicable). That local decision chain and branded Nixle/DELTAEMG path are what this record captures.

Takeaways

Key findings

VP of Business and Finance authorizes Emergency Notifications to the Director of Public Safety.

Director may distribute immediately without approval delay, subject to later cancel/retract.

Nixle is the branded emergency messaging system; SMS signup is DELTAEMG to 888777.

Timely warnings are drafted by Director and VP (with Title IX when needed).

Policy, meet practice

When this system actually fired

2 documented times Delta’s alert system was used, from the case archive.

Provenance

Sources

Clery ASR
2025 Annual Security Report - Delta College
delta.edu
archived copy