Quinnipiac
2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Timely Warning, Emergency Notification and Other Communications (Mount Carmel and York Hill)
Quinnipiac University's 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report for the Mount Carmel and York Hill campuses defines a Clery timely warning as a post-crime ongoing-threat notice and an emergency notification as a confirmation by the chief of public safety (with the Public Information Office) of an immediate threat, distributed without delay on the Broadcast Alert System (email, text, voice), which is tested twice a year at the start of each semester.
Read the official policyQU Broadcast Alert System
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Clery timely warning definitionverbatim
As defined by the Clery Act, a “timely warning” is triggered by crimes that have already occurred but represent a serious or ongoing threat.
- Curly quotes around timely warning are live.
Public Safety emergency-notification confirmationverbatim
As defined by Public Safety policy, an “emergency notification” will be immediately issued upon confirmation by the chief of public safety or their designee, with the assistance of the Public Information Office, that such event poses a significant emergency or dangerous situation and involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.
- Names the chief of public safety and PIO. Curly quotes around emergency notification are live.
Broadcast Alert System channelsverbatim
QU’s Broadcast Alert System permits the simultaneous distribution of wireless broadcast emails, text messages and voice calls (including voicemails for calls unanswered).
- Apostrophe in QU's is U+2019.
Without-delay active-threat useverbatim
The system is used to distribute emergency notifications without delay in situations where a clear and active (e.g., in progress) threat or emergency exists that impacts the community and where it is recommended that the recipients take some form of action in response to the active threat or emergency.
- Pairs without delay with an in-progress threat and a recommended action.
Semester test cadenceverbatim
The Broadcast Alert System is tested twice a year at the beginning of each semester.
- Followed by the MyQ registration reminder.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Timely warnings: Clery crimes already occurred that represent a serious or ongoing threat in Clery geography. Emergency notifications: confirmed significant emergency or dangerous situation with an immediate threat to health or safety, clear and active (in progress).
- Who decides
- Emergency notifications: chief of public safety or designee, with the Public Information Office. Timely warnings: university determination after report to a CSA or local law enforcement.
- Timeliness standard
- Emergency notifications without delay. Broadcast Alert System tested twice a year at the beginning of each semester.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR explicitly distinguishes Clery timely warnings (post-crime ongoing threat) from emergency notifications (immediate in-progress threat confirmed by the chief of public safety).
- Testing cadence
- Twice a year at the beginning of each semester.
- Scope & limits
- Broadcast Alert registration is via MyQ Quick Links. RAVE Guardian and Alertus are additional opt-in/plugin channels.
ChannelsSmsEmailPhone CallDesktop PopupDigital SignageWebsite
Analysis
Reading the policy
Quinnipiac (private-r2, Connecticut) had six filed cases and no policy file. The live Hamden/York Hill 2025 ASR PDF (HTTP 200, text layer, second read) splits the two Clery tracks in Public Safety policy language.
A timely warning, as defined by the Clery Act in this ASR, is triggered by crimes that have already occurred but represent a serious or ongoing threat, issued for Clery crimes in Clery geography reported to a CSA or local law enforcement and considered by the university to represent a serious or ongoing threat (the live sentence uses curly quotes around timely warning).
An emergency notification, as defined by Public Safety policy, is immediately issued upon confirmation by the chief of public safety or designee, with the Public Information Office, that the event poses a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to health or safety of students or employees.
The Broadcast Alert System simultaneously distributes wireless emails, texts, and voice calls (including voicemail for unanswered calls) without delay when a clear and active (in progress) threat exists and recipients should take action. It is tested twice a year at the beginning of each semester. RAVE Guardian and Alertus appear as additional channels in the same chapter.
Every excerpt below was character-checked against the PDF text layer, including curly quotation marks.
Takeaways
Key findings
Quinnipiac's ASR separates Clery timely warnings (post-crime ongoing threat) from emergency notifications confirmed by the chief of public safety with the PIO.
The Broadcast Alert System sends email, text, and voice simultaneously, without delay, for in-progress threats.
The system is tested twice a year at the start of each semester.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
4 documented times Quinnipiac’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
- Official
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Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion