LCCC
Emergency Alerts
Laramie County Community College's Emergency Alerts page describes an opt-out RAVE Alert system that texts and emails students and employees during emergencies threatening life, safety, or property, or that severely impact normal campus operations, and states LCCC plans a test message each semester to verify subscriptions.
Read the official policyInstitution
Laramie County Community College
Community College · WY
~4,193 studentsRAVE Alert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Activation criteriaverbatim
RAVE Alert messages are used to notify students and employees during emergencies that threaten life, safety or property and/or severely impact normal campus/college operations.
- — This activation-criteria sentence returned nearly identically across two independently run search queries in this session, differing only by a single verb-agreement letter (impact/impacts), which is strong evidence of genuine page text despite the inability to directly fetch lccc.wy.edu.
Opt-out default enrollmentverbatim
This is an opt-out system; once you are a student or employee, you are already set up to receive alert messages.
- — Returned byte-identically across two independently run search queries, confirming LCCC's opt-out (rather than opt-in) default.
Semester test messageverbatim
LCCC also plans to conduct a test message each semester to verify a student's subscription to this service and to ensure the system is working properly.
- — Returned byte-identically across two independently run search queries; the most concrete testing-cadence commitment found among the Wyoming community colleges researched in this session.
Message frequency expectationreconstructed
Those signing up for emergency alerts will probably only receive two to four messages each year based on the number of times campus usually closes each year, however, if there's a more serious type of campus emergency, numerous messages may be sent in a single day to make sure everyone has the latest information.
- — Reconstructed from a single search rendering of the page; consistent in substance with the confirmed sentences above but not independently repeated word-for-word in a second query.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- RAVE Alert messages are used to notify students and employees during emergencies that threaten life, safety, or property, and/or that severely impact normal campus/college operations.
- Who decides
- Not confirmed in the sources reviewed; LCCC's Campus Safety and Marketing & Communications offices jointly administer the system's operation and unsubscribe process, but no single named approving official for activation was reproduced verbatim.
- Timeliness standard
- No specific minutes-based timeliness standard was reproduced verbatim; the page instead commits to a message-frequency expectation and describes rapid, repeated messaging during fast-moving incidents.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- LCCC's general policies reference a numbered "9.4 Timely Warning Policy" and "9.4P Timely Warning Procedure," confirming the college draws a formal Clery distinction, but the specific dividing line between emergency notification and timely warning could not be independently fetched and quoted from that policy document in this session.
- Testing cadence
- LCCC states it plans to conduct a test message each semester to verify a student's subscription to the service and confirm the system is working properly.
- Scope & limits
- The system is opt-out by default for all students and employees; a subscriber must actively unsubscribe (replying STOP, or contacting Marketing and Communications) to be removed, and contact-information changes made in myLCCC self-service may take up to 48 hours to take effect.
ChannelsSmsEmail
Analysis
Reading the policy
Laramie County Community College (Cheyenne, WY) runs its emergency notification system on the RAVE platform, described on the college's Emergency Alerts page. Unlike institutions that require an affirmative signup, LCCC's system is opt-out: every student and employee is set up to receive alerts by default the moment they are a member of the campus community, and anyone who wants to stop receiving messages must actively unsubscribe (by replying STOP to a text or email, or by contacting the Marketing and Communications department directly to be removed).
The page sets an honest expectation for message frequency: subscribers will typically see only two to four messages a year, tied to the number of times the campus closes, but during a more serious emergency, numerous messages may go out in a single day as the situation develops. LCCC also states it plans a test message each semester specifically to verify subscription status and confirm the system is functioning, a concrete testing-cadence commitment that is often left vague at other institutions. A separate Emergency Information page gives quick-reference guidance for specific scenarios (911, fire, bomb threat, intruder, hazmat), and the college's general policies section references a numbered Timely Warning Policy (Policy 9.4) that would ordinarily carry the formal Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning distinction.
This environment's outbound network returns HTTP 403 for direct fetches of lccc.wy.edu, so the excerpts below were captured from official page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing, cross-checked across independent queries run separately by two different search efforts in this session. Several sentences returned identically (or near-identically, differing only by a single verb-agreement letter) across those independent queries and are marked verbatim-confirmed on that basis; the Timely Warning Policy PDF itself, and any named decision-authority language, could not be located or fetched and are reported as gaps rather than invented.
Takeaways
Key findings
LCCC's RAVE Alert is an opt-out system: students and employees are enrolled automatically and must actively unsubscribe (reply STOP, or contact Marketing and Communications).
LCCC commits to a semester test message specifically to verify subscription status and confirm the system works, a concrete and unusually specific testing cadence.
Typical subscribers should expect only two to four messages a year, but a serious emergency can trigger numerous same-day messages.
LCCC's general policies reference a numbered Timely Warning Policy (9.4) confirming a formal Clery distinction exists, though its specific text could not be fetched in this session.
No named decision-authority language or minutes-based timing standard could be confirmed for LCCC from the sources available.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Official
- News
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policyemergency-notificationtimely-warningraveclery-actcommunity-collegewyoming
Added 2026-07-03Updated 2026-07-03Via ingestion