Post
Campus Alerts
Post University, a for-profit institution in Waterbury, Connecticut, moved its Campus Alert system from Rave to InformaCast, a mass notification platform reaching on-campus phones, personal cell phones, and digital signage, with main campus students and Post Associates automatically added to the system once enrolled and a panic button in the InformaCast mobile app letting Campus Safety see who is requesting help and their location.
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Post University
For Profit · CT
Campus Alert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Automatic enrollmentnot yet verified against the source
The policy addresses this topic; its exact wording has not yet been verified against the source, so no text is quoted here. Open the official policy to read it.
Post University, Campus Alerts (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)Move from Rave to InformaCastnot yet verified against the source
The policy addresses this topic; its exact wording has not yet been verified against the source, so no text is quoted here. Open the official policy to read it.
Post University, Campus Alerts (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)InformaCast panic buttonnot yet verified against the source
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Post University, Campus Alerts (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Main campus students are notified by a phone call or text message to contact information on file in the event of a campus emergency or weather related closing.
- Who decides
- Post University Campus Safety is presented as administering the InformaCast system and able to see who is requesting help through the panic button feature and their location; a single named official with sign off authority to trigger a broadcast was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.
- Timeliness standard
- Not specified with a numeric standard in the sources reviewed.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The Campus Alerts page frames Post's notification system around campus emergencies and weather related closings generally; a specific Clery emergency notification versus timely warning distinction was not independently confirmed on the page reviewed.
- Testing cadence
- Not specified in the sources reviewed.
- Scope & limits
- Post main campus students and Post Associates are automatically added to the Campus Alert system once enrolled; the panic button feature is scoped to main campus students using the InformaCast mobile app.
ChannelsPhone CallSmsDigital SignagePush Notification
Analysis
Reading the policy
Post University's Campus Alerts page states that in the event of a campus emergency or weather related closing, main campus students are notified by a phone call or text message to the contact information on file, and that Post main campus students and Post Associates do not need to sign up for the Campus Alert service because their contact information is automatically added to the system once they become an enrolled student or employee, an automatic enrollment model rather than an opt in registration portal.
The university has moved away from the Rave platform common at many peer institutions to InformaCast, described as a more modern mass notification system that sends broadcasts reaching everyone with critical information through on-campus phones, personal cell phones, and other devices including digital signage on campus. InformaCast's mobile app adds a panic button feature, letting main campus students request assistance directly from their mobile phones, with Post University Campus Safety able to see who is requesting help and their location, a person to person safety feature layered on top of the institution wide mass notification broadcast.
As a private, for-profit university, Post is bound by the same Clery Act requirement that all institutions maintain some kind of campus emergency alert and notification system; the specific text distinguishing a Clery emergency notification from a timely warning was not confirmed on the Campus Alerts page reviewed. Because post.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official page rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.
Takeaways
Key findings
Post University automatically enrolls main campus students and Post Associates in its Campus Alert system without a separate opt in step.
Post moved from the Rave platform to InformaCast, a mass notification system reaching on-campus phones, personal cell phones, and digital signage.
InformaCast's mobile app includes a panic button letting Campus Safety see who is requesting help and their location.
Post.edu could not be directly loaded in this environment, so this record is scored at medium confidence and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation.
Provenance
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Added 2026-09-27Updated 2026-09-27Via ingestion