HINU
Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Procedures (Annual Security & Fire Safety Report)
Haskell Indian Nations University — a federally operated, BIE-chartered tribal university in Lawrence, Kansas — sends campus emergency notifications through Haskell E2 Alert (e2Campus), an opt-in text/email mass-notification system, with the decision to launch an alert resting with the Safety Office and the Clery distinction between timely warnings and emergency notifications documented in its Annual Security & Fire Safety Report.
Read the official policyInstitution
Haskell Indian Nations University
Tribal College · KS
~946 studentsHaskell E2 Alert (e2Campus)
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Safety Office authorizes emergency notificationsnot yet verified against the source
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Haskell 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (captured via search-engine reproduction; haskell.edu PDF 403-blocks automated fetch)Haskell E2 Alert message templatenot yet verified against the source
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Haskell Federal Campus Security page / ASR (captured via search-engine reproduction)Tornado-warning channel stacknot yet verified against the source
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Haskell 2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (captured via search-engine reproduction)At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Emergency notifications are issued upon verification that a legitimate ongoing dangerous situation or emergency exists involving an immediate threat to health or safety; timely warnings are issued for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a continuing threat to the community. The Clery Act Compliance Committee assesses, per incident report, whether a timely warning or emergency notification is warranted. For tornado warnings specifically, notice is communicated through the Safety and/or Facilities Offices, Administration, e2Campus, the Emergency P.A., and the Outdoor Tornado Siren.
- Who decides
- Sending an emergency notification is the responsibility of the Safety Office. The Safety Officer bases the decision on information received from the Public Relations Specialist and Haskell Security officer(s) on scene; upon verification that a legitimate ongoing dangerous situation or emergency exists, the Safety Office or authorized personnel approve the launch of a Haskell E2 Alert to all users. The Emergency Action Plan is reviewed and approved by the Office of the President and the Safety Compliance Manager.
- Timeliness standard
- As a Clery-covered (federal) institution, Haskell follows the federal standard of issuing emergency notifications immediately upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, and timely warnings as soon as pertinent information is available. A specific numeric minutes target was not stated in the sources reviewed.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Two-track Clery model documented in the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report: timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes representing a continuing threat, and emergency notifications upon confirmation of an immediate threat. Incident reports are routed to the Clery Act Compliance Committee, which classifies them for statistics and assesses whether a warning or notification is required.
- Testing cadence
- Emergency evacuation procedures are tested at least twice each year. The university conducts an annual emergency-management exercise (an Emergency Exercise was completed in 2023) with a scenario that changes each year and involves several campus departments; disaster preparation and response drills occur every semester.
- Scope & limits
- Haskell E2 Alert (e2Campus) text/email delivery is opt-in: only community members who subscribe via the university website receive those messages. Campus-wide channels independent of subscription — the Outdoor Tornado Siren and the Emergency P.A. — backstop the opt-in gap for on-campus populations, but commuters and the unsubscribed may not receive e2Campus text/email alerts.
ChannelsSmsEmailSirenPa SystemWebsite
Analysis
Reading the policy
Haskell Indian Nations University is unusual among Clery-covered institutions: it is a federal institution operated by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Education, serving members of federally recognized tribes from across the country on its campus in Lawrence, Kansas. Its mass-notification backbone is e2Campus, branded internally as 'Haskell E2 Alert' — a text/email subscription service that students and staff are 'highly encouraged' to sign up for from the university home page. Because the system is opt-in, anyone who never subscribes does not receive Haskell E2 Alert text or email messages, a structural coverage gap the university mitigates with layered campus-wide channels.
For the most common local hazard — severe weather — Haskell layers e2Campus over an Outdoor Tornado Siren and an Emergency P.A. system, supplemented by notifications from the Safety and/or Facilities Offices and Administration. This siren-plus-PA-plus-app stack matters at a residential tribal university where many students live on campus and where tornado risk is significant in the Kansas climate. The university's Emergency Action Plan is reviewed and approved by the Office of the President and the Safety Compliance Manager and updated as necessary by the Safety Compliance Manager.
Decision authority for an emergency notification is centralized in the Safety Office. According to the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report, sending an emergency notification is the responsibility of the Safety Office, and the Safety Officer bases the decision on information received from the Public Relations Specialist and Haskell Security officer(s) on scene; upon verification that a legitimate ongoing dangerous situation or emergency exists, the Safety Office or authorized personnel approve the launch of a Haskell E2 Alert to all users. Incident reports are shared with the Clery Act Compliance Committee for statistical classification and to assess the necessity for a timely warning or emergency notification — the standard Clery two-track framing (timely warnings for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a continuing threat; emergency notifications upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety).
On testing, the university reports that emergency evacuation procedures are tested at least twice each year and that it runs an annual emergency-management exercise (an Emergency Exercise was completed in 2023) whose scenario changes each year and involves multiple campus departments. All Haskell E2 Alert messages follow a fixed template: an indication the message is a Haskell E2 Alert, the time/date, a brief description of the emergency, and where and when to receive further information. Note on sourcing: the haskell.edu host (including its ASR and Emergency Action Plan PDFs) returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, so the language below is captured from search-engine reproductions of those official documents rather than a directly fetched page; excerpts are therefore flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false despite appearing to be near-verbatim from the ASR.
Takeaways
Key findings
Haskell, a federally operated BIE tribal university, runs emergency notifications on e2Campus, branded 'Haskell E2 Alert', delivering opt-in text and email messages.
The launch decision is centralized in the Safety Office; the Safety Officer acts on information from the on-scene Security officers and the Public Relations Specialist, and the Clery Act Compliance Committee assesses each incident for a warning or notification.
For tornadoes — the dominant local hazard — Haskell layers e2Campus with an Outdoor Tornado Siren and an Emergency P.A. system that reach on-campus populations regardless of subscription.
Emergency evacuation procedures are tested at least twice yearly, with an annual emergency-management exercise (completed in 2023) whose scenario rotates and engages multiple departments.
Sourcing limitation: haskell.edu (and its ASR/EAP PDFs) 403-blocks automated fetching, so the near-verbatim language here is captured from search-engine reproductions and conservatively flagged isVerbatimConfirmed:false.
Provenance
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Added 2026-06-21Updated 2026-08-03Via ingestion