FLC
Skyhawk Alert
Fort Lewis College, a public bachelor's-focused liberal arts college in Durango, automatically enrolls every current student and employee in Skyhawk Alert using their official FLC email address and the cell number on file in WebOpus, and reserves the system for on-campus safety emergencies, unexpected campus closings, and off-campus incidents whose threat is moving toward FLC; per the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, the Fort Lewis College Police Department decides whether to issue a timely warning in consultation with the Vice President for Finance and Administration.
Read the official policyInstitution
Fort Lewis College
Public Bachelors · CO
~3,500 studentsSkyhawk Alert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Skyhawk Alert system descriptionverbatim
Skyhawk Alert is an emergency notification system that allows Fort Lewis College to quickly communicate health and safety-related emergency information via text message or email.
- — This exact sentence recurred identically across independent search queries of Fort Lewis College's own Skyhawk Alert page.
Trigger scope, including off-campus approaching threatsverbatim
Skyhawk Alerts are used during a safety emergency on the physical grounds of campus or when there is an unexpected closing of the campus, and may also be sent when there is an off-campus incident and the threat is moving toward FLC.
- — Also recurred identically across independent search queries; explicitly extends Skyhawk Alert's trigger scope to an off-campus threat that is moving toward FLC, not just confirmed on-campus incidents.
Automatic enrollmentreconstructed
Skyhawk Alert is a free service to Fort Lewis College faculty, students and staff. FLC enrolls all current students and employees to receive Skyhawk Alerts at their official FLC email address and at the cell phone number listed in WebOpus.
- — Documents automatic (not opt-in) enrollment sourced from WebOpus contact data, with an option to add up to two cell numbers and six email addresses.
Timely warning consultation partnerreconstructed
As soon as pertinent information is available, the Fort Lewis College Police Department, in consultation with the Vice President for Finance and Administration, will evaluate the need to issue a timely warning.
- — Names the Vice President for Finance and Administration as FLC Police's specific consultation partner for timely-warning decisions, a detail not common across the archive.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Skyhawk Alerts are used during a safety emergency on the physical grounds of campus or when there is an unexpected closing of the campus, and may also be sent when there is an off-campus incident and the threat is moving toward FLC.
- Who decides
- The Fort Lewis College Police Department, in consultation with the Vice President for Finance and Administration, evaluates the need to issue a timely warning on a case-by-case basis, considering the crime's nature, the continuing danger to the campus community, and the possible risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts.
- Timeliness standard
- Timely warnings are issued as soon as pertinent information is available, following FLC Police's case-by-case analysis; a specific minutes-based service-level standard was not found in the public sources reviewed.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- FLC Police issues timely warnings via campus email once a reported crime is judged, case-by-case in consultation with the Vice President for Finance and Administration, to represent a serious or continuing threat, tracking the standard Clery timely-warning/emergency-notification framework.
- Testing cadence
- A published Skyhawk Alert-specific testing schedule was not found in the public sources reviewed, though the College has publicized individual system-wide tests.
- Scope & limits
- All current students and employees are automatically enrolled using their FLC email and the cell number on file in WebOpus (up to two cell numbers and six email addresses can be added); alert relevance can extend to off-campus incidents whose threat is moving toward the campus, not only confirmed on-campus emergencies.
ChannelsSmsEmail
Analysis
Reading the policy
Fort Lewis College describes Skyhawk Alert as an emergency notification system that allows the College to quickly communicate health and safety-related emergency information via text message or email. Unlike systems that require individual opt-in registration, FLC enrolls all current students and employees automatically, using each person's official FLC email address and the cell phone number already on file in WebOpus, the College's student information system; community members can add up to two cell phone numbers and six email addresses and are instructed to keep the WebOpus number current so alerts actually reach them.
FLC's own description of when Skyhawk Alert fires is broader than a typical Clery emergency-notification standard: alerts are used during a safety emergency on the physical grounds of campus, for an unexpected closing of the campus, and may also be sent when there is an off-campus incident and the threat is moving toward FLC, an explicit acknowledgment that Skyhawk Alert can be triggered by an approaching threat that has not yet reached campus property, not only a confirmed on-campus emergency.
On Clery decision authority, Fort Lewis College's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report states that the Fort Lewis College Police Department will issue timely warnings via campus email when the proper conditions are met, following a case-by-case analysis; as soon as pertinent information is available, FLC Police, in consultation with the Vice President for Finance and Administration, evaluates the need to issue a timely warning, weighing the crime's nature, the continuing danger to the campus community, and the possible risk of compromising law-enforcement efforts, tracking the general Clery interpretive standard used across the archive. Naming the Vice President for Finance and Administration, rather than a communications or student-affairs office, as the timely-warning consultation partner is a specific administrative detail not common at every institution profiled here.
Because fortlewis.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official Fort Lewis College Skyhawk Alert, Skyhawk Alert FAQ, and Annual Security and Fire Safety Report text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.
Takeaways
Key findings
Skyhawk Alert automatically enrolls all current students and employees using their official FLC email and WebOpus-listed cell number, rather than requiring individual opt-in sign-up.
FLC explicitly extends Skyhawk Alert's trigger scope to off-campus incidents whose threat is moving toward the campus, not only confirmed on-campus emergencies.
Timely-warning decisions are made by the Fort Lewis College Police Department in consultation with the Vice President for Finance and Administration, a specific named partner not common at every institution in this archive.
Fort Lewis College, a public bachelor's-focused liberal arts college, publishes a standard Annual Security and Fire Safety Report under the Clery Act.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
2 documented times FLC’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Official
- Clery ASR
Tags
policyemergency-notificationtimely-warningclery-actpublic-bachelorsskyhawk-alertcolorado
Added 2026-07-03Updated 2026-07-03Via ingestion