Philander Smith
2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Timely Warning Notices and e2 Campus Emergency Alert
Philander Smith University's 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report issues special notices in a timely manner to publicize violent crimes or perceived patterns of crime, and defines e2 Emergency Alert as a text messaging notification system that can contact students and employees in an emergency. In an emergency, notification begins immediately.
Read the official policye2 Campus Emergency Alert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Timely Warning Notices policyverbatim
It is University policy to issue special notices in a timely manner to publicize violent crimes or perceived patterns of crime in a particular area to heighten awareness and help prevent reoccurrences.
- Live spelling is reoccurrences.
e2 Emergency Alert definitionverbatim
e2 Emergency Alert refers to a text messaging notification system that can be used to contact students and employees in the event of an emergency.
- System name in the ASR is e2 Emergency Alert.
Subscription requiredverbatim
Individuals must subscribe to the e2 Campus Emergency Alert system to receive an alert via the following methods:
- Opt-in. Following methods list is not quoted as a sentence.
Immediate emergency notificationverbatim
In an emergency, notification will begin immediately and may use one or all of these methods:
- A following bullet renders as e 2Campus with a dropped space and is not quoted.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Timely Warning Notices for violent crimes or perceived patterns of crime in a particular area. e2 Emergency Alert in the event of an emergency. Immediate notification in an emergency.
- Who decides
- The ASR does not name a single issuing official in the quoted sentences. Campus-wide warnings may use e2 Campus, mass emails, and bulletin boards.
- Timeliness standard
- Special notices in a timely manner. In an emergency, notification will begin immediately.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR has a Timely Warning Notices section and a separate e2 Campus Emergency Alert / Emergency Communication Methods section.
- Scope & limits
- Individuals must subscribe to e2 Campus Emergency Alert to receive an alert. The system is used in addition to other mass communication methods.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Philander Smith (Arkansas HBCU, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live 2025 ASR PDF (HTTP 200, text layer). Timely Warning Notices publicize violent crimes or perceived patterns of crime in a particular area to heighten awareness and help prevent reoccurrences (live spelling). e2 Emergency Alert is a text messaging notification system; individuals must subscribe. In an emergency, notification will begin immediately and may use one or all listed methods. A sentence that reads Philander Smith current emergency mass communication methods is missing a word and is not quoted. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.
Takeaways
Key findings
Timely Warning Notices publicize violent crimes or perceived patterns of crime to prevent reoccurrences.
e2 Emergency Alert is a text system that requires subscription.
In an emergency, notification begins immediately.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
4 documented times Philander Smith’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
Tags
policyclery-asremergency-notificationtimely-warningarkansashbcu
Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion