Kapiʻolani CC
Campus Safety & Emergency Management
Kapiʻolani Community College, one of ten campuses in the University of Hawaiʻi system, states on its Campus Safety & Emergency Management page that when appropriate the college will alert faculty, staff, and students by email, text messaging, or UH Alert. Like every UH campus, Kapiʻolani relies on the system-wide UH Rave Alert platform, which automatically enrolls every UH community member's @hawaii.edu email address and lets them separately opt in to receive SMS alerts.
Read the official policy~5,914 studentsUH Alert (UH Rave Alert)
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Automatic UH Rave Alert email enrollmentverbatim
All members of the UH community are automatically enrolled to receive emergency alerts from UH Rave Alert to their @hawaii.edu email address.
- Establishes automatic, no-action-required email enrollment for every UH system member, including Kapiʻolani students and employees; this sentence reproduced identically across independent retrievals of the UH system alert page.
Kapiʻolani's stated alert channelsnot yet verified against the source
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Kapiʻolani Community College, Campus Safety & Emergency ManagementOpt-in SMS enrollmentnot yet verified against the source
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University of Hawaiʻi System, Information About UH Rave AlertSemester test cadencenot yet verified against the source
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University of Hawaiʻi System, Information About UH Rave AlertAt a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- When appropriate, Kapiʻolani will alert faculty, staff, and students by email, text messaging, and/or UH Alert; UH system-wide describes emergency communications as urgent notices affecting the health and safety of the UH community, including closures of whole campuses.
- Who decides
- A specific named decision-making office or officer for triggering a Kapiʻolani-specific UH Alert notification was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed in this session; issuance runs through the shared UH system Rave Alert infrastructure.
- Timeliness standard
- A specific minutes-based service-level standard for issuing a UH Alert notification was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; UH describes directing the community to its Emergency Information webpage for real-time updates once an incident is underway.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Kapiʻolani discloses its Clery timely-warning obligations through its Annual Security Report and the shared UH system Clery framework rather than a distinct campus criteria page; UH Alert itself is framed around urgent health/safety notices and campus closures rather than as a standalone Clery instrument.
- Testing cadence
- UH states Rave Alert system tests are conducted once a semester, with a test email sent to the full UH community and a test SMS sent to those enrolled for text alerts.
- Scope & limits
- Email coverage to @hawaii.edu addresses is automatic for every UH community member, including Kapiʻolani students and employees; SMS coverage is opt-in and requires logging into the UH Rave Alert account to add a mobile number.
ChannelsEmailSmsWebsite
Analysis
Reading the policy
Kapiʻolani Community College sits within the ten-campus University of Hawaiʻi system, and its emergency communications run on the shared UH Alert infrastructure (UH Rave Alert) rather than a campus-built system of its own. Kapiʻolani's own Campus Safety & Emergency Management page states that when appropriate, the university will alert faculty, staff and students via email, text messaging and/or UH Alert, and directs the campus community to the UH Emergency Information webpage during an active incident for updates on the situation, safety guidance, and when normal status has returned.
The system-wide enrollment mechanism is largely automatic. UH states that all members of the UH community, which includes every Kapiʻolani student and employee, are automatically enrolled to receive emergency alerts from UH Rave Alert at their @hawaii.edu email address, so email coverage does not depend on a separate sign-up step. Text messaging is opt-in on top of that automatic email base: members of the UH community may also choose to receive SMS alerts, but must log in to their UH Rave Alert account and add a mobile number before texts will go out. UH states it tests the Rave Alert system roughly once a semester, sending a test email to the whole community and a test SMS to those who have opted in to text alerts.
Kapiʻolani's page frames the system's scope around 'urgent notices' affecting health and safety and campus-wide closures, consistent with UH's broader description of emergency communications as matters that impact the health and safety of the UH community or the closure of whole campuses. Kapiʻolani's own Clery Timely Warning criteria are not published at a distinct campus URL comparable to the UH Hilo criteria page already in this archive; Kapiʻolani's timely-warning obligations are instead disclosed through its Annual Security Report and the shared UH system Clery framework. Because kapiolani.hawaii.edu and hawaii.edu both returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from search-index snippets. The system-wide automatic-enrollment sentence reproduced identically across independent retrievals and is marked verbatim-confirmed; Kapiʻolani-specific passages that varied in wording between retrievals are marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false out of caution.
Takeaways
Key findings
Kapiʻolani Community College uses the UH system-wide UH Rave Alert platform rather than a campus-built notification system.
Every UH community member, including all Kapiʻolani students and employees, is automatically enrolled for email alerts at their @hawaii.edu address; SMS requires a separate opt-in.
UH states Rave Alert is tested once a semester, sending a test email campus-wide and a test SMS to text-enrolled recipients.
Kapiʻolani directs its community to the shared UH Emergency Information webpage during an active incident, rather than maintaining a separate campus incident page.
Unlike UH Hilo, Kapiʻolani does not appear to publish a distinct Clery Timely Warning criteria page; its timely-warning disclosures run through its Annual Security Report and the shared UH Clery framework.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
3 documented times Kapiʻolani CC’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
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policyemergency-notificationclery-actuh-alertravecommunity-collegehawaiiterritory-pacific
Added 2026-07-03Updated 2026-07-03Via ingestion