Montclair
Emergency Preparedness and Annual Security Report - Rave Mobile Safety
Montclair State University's emergency preparedness page communicates emergency notifications for campus closures, power outages, security threats, severe weather, evacuations and natural disasters through Rave Mobile Safety text alerts, University email, website pop-up messages, and official social media. Students are automatically enrolled through NEST; faculty and staff through Workday. The Annual Security Report page issues timely warning reports for listed Clery crimes that represent a serious and ongoing threat.
Read the official policyRave Mobile Safety
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Emergency notification situations and channelsverbatim
Emergency notifications for situations including campus closures, power outages, security threats, severe weather, evacuations and natural disasters will be communicated through the following channels:
- No serial comma after evacuations.
Student auto-enrollmentverbatim
Students are automatically enrolled to receive Rave Mobile Safety text alerts through their provided contact information in NEST.
- NEST is the student system.
Faculty and staff auto-enrollmentverbatim
Faculty and staff are automatically enrolled through their personal contact information in Workday.
- Workday is the employee system.
Timely warning report policyverbatim
While maintaining the confidentiality of victims, Montclair State University issues timely warning reports to notify the campus community of crimes that involve homicide, murder, manslaughter, sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson and other serious incidents that the University determines to represent a serious and ongoing threat to the campus.
- No serial comma after arson.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Emergency notifications for campus closures, power outages, security threats, severe weather, evacuations and natural disasters. Timely warnings for listed Clery crimes that represent a serious and ongoing threat.
- Who decides
- The University determines which serious incidents represent a serious and ongoing threat for timely warnings.
- Timeliness standard
- Not stated as a minutes-based SLA in the quoted sentences.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR page has a Timely Warning Report Policy. The preparedness page covers emergency notification channels.
- Scope & limits
- Students auto-enroll via NEST. Faculty and staff auto-enroll via Workday. Families and visitors may opt in by text.
ChannelsSmsEmailWebsite
Analysis
Reading the policy
Montclair (New Jersey public-r2, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live Emergency Preparedness page (HTTP 200). Emergency notifications for campus closures, power outages, security threats, severe weather, evacuations and natural disasters go through Rave Mobile Safety text alerts, University email, website pop-up messages, and official University social media. Students are automatically enrolled to receive Rave text alerts through NEST contact information. Faculty and staff are automatically enrolled through Workday. The live Montclair Annual Security Report page (HTTP 200) issues timely warning reports for homicide, murder, manslaughter, sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson and other serious incidents the University determines to represent a serious and ongoing threat. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.
Takeaways
Key findings
Rave Mobile Safety is the text-alert channel for emergency notifications.
Students auto-enroll via NEST; faculty and staff via Workday.
Timely warning reports cover listed Clery crimes that are a serious and ongoing threat.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
3 documented times Montclair’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Clery ASR
Tags
policysystem-overviewemergency-notificationtimely-warningnew-jerseypublic-r2rave
Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion