SKC
Emergency Notification System (Rave) / Campus Security
Salish Kootenai College — the tribal college of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Pablo, Montana — delivers campus emergency notifications through Rave Alert, a Rave Mobile Safety mass-notification platform that sends text, voice, and email messages to an automatically enrolled campus community, layered over the college's Emergency Response Plan and the Clery procedures described on its Campus Security pages.
Read the official policyInstitution
Salish Kootenai College
Tribal College · MT
~700 studentsRave Alert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Automatic enrollmentverbatim
Students are automatically enrolled in Rave Alert.
- — Automatic enrollment (rather than opt-in keyword subscription) maximizes coverage of the campus community. This exact wording appeared identically across multiple SKC-attributed retrievals.
Opt-out instructionverbatim
You can opt out of the system by texting "Stop" to 67283.
- — 67283 spells 'OPTIN' on a phone keypad and is Rave Mobile Safety's standard opt-in/out short code; messages also originate from 226787. Opting out removes the recipient from emergency texts.
Platform capability (paraphrased from indexed description)reconstructed
SKC has partnered with Rave Mobile Safety to offer an emergency notification system, Rave Alert, capable of sending users text, voice, and email messages.
- — Drawn from the SKC online-catalog description as surfaced in the search index; the catalog host (skc.smartcatalogiq.com) returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so exact page wording could not be byte-for-byte confirmed. Marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false out of caution.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- SKC states it 'will use the RAVE alert system to notify the campus about potential threats and what actions should be taken.' Lockdown procedures (with Rave Alert specifying the lockdown type) may be invoked for threats such as armed intruders or hazardous-materials spills. As a Clery-covered institution SKC issues timely-warning notices for Clery-reportable crimes that represent a continuing threat 'when appropriate.' (Exact criteria language not retrievable in this review; framing reconstructed from indexed snippets and the Clery standard.)
- Who decides
- SKC Administration may invoke lockdown procedures, and campus safety officials use Rave Alert to send notifications. The specific position authorized to issue an emergency notification or timely warning was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed (skc.edu and the SKC online catalog blocked automated fetching).
- Timeliness standard
- Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; as a Clery-covered tribal college SKC is bound by the federal 'immediately, upon confirmation' standard for emergency notifications and the 'timely' standard for warnings. SKC describes incidents as being 'immediately recorded' by campus security.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- SKC prepares an annual report on campus crimes/incidents and asks that crimes be reported to Campus Security to aid in providing timely-warning notices 'when appropriate'; standard timely-warning vs emergency-notification distinction applies. Criminal activity is referred to tribal police or the county sheriff for investigation.
- Testing cadence
- Not specified in the sources reviewed; secondary descriptions note SKC 'routinely' uses and tests the Rave system, but a published periodic test cadence (e.g., annual or per-term) for Rave Alert was not confirmed.
- Scope & limits
- Rave Alert is reserved for emergency communication (no advertisements; recipient data not shared). Students are automatically enrolled, but recipients can opt out by texting 'Stop' to 67283; opting out removes them from emergency texts. On the rural Flathead Reservation footprint, cellular coverage gaps are an inherent limitation for SMS/voice delivery.
ChannelsSmsEmailPhone CallTwitter XFacebookWebsiteDigital Signage
Analysis
Reading the policy
Salish Kootenai College (SKC) is the federally chartered tribal college of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, located on the Flathead Reservation in Pablo, Montana. For mass emergency communication the college has partnered with Rave Mobile Safety to operate Rave Alert, the same FedRAMP-authorized platform used by hundreds of U.S. campuses. Unlike the opt-in keyword model some tribal colleges use, SKC enrolls students automatically: the college states that 'Students are automatically enrolled in Rave Alert,' and recipients may leave the system by texting 'Stop' to the short code 67283 (messages originate from short codes 67283 or 226787). The automatic-enrollment design materially improves coverage versus opt-in keyword systems.
The platform is multi-channel. SKC describes Rave Alert as capable of sending users 'text, voice, and email messages,' and college material also references alerting across email, text message, voice message, social media, and digital signage. The system is reserved for emergency communication — the college says it will only send messages related to emergencies and that recipient information is never provided to advertisers — while also permitting targeted non-emergency messages such as class cancellations or severe-weather closures to registered cell phones.
Operationally, SKC says it 'will use the RAVE alert system to notify the campus about potential threats and what actions should be taken.' The college's lockdown procedures are tied to the alert tool: SKC Administration may invoke lockdown to safeguard employees, students, and visitors against threats such as armed intruders or hazardous-materials spills, and the Rave Alert message specifies the type of lockdown and any additional instructions. These response procedures sit within the college's incident-command-based Emergency Response Plan.
For Clery purposes, SKC prepares an annual report on campus crimes and incidents and asks that crimes be reported to SKC Campus Security both to include them in annual statistics and to aid in providing timely-warning notices to the community when appropriate; incidents are recorded by SKC security and criminal activity is reported to the tribal police or the county sheriff's department for investigation. The specific verbatim decision criteria, named decision authority, the federal 'immediately, upon confirmation' timeliness language, and a published test cadence for Rave Alert were not retrievable in this review because skc.edu and the SKC online catalog host (skc.smartcatalogiq.com) blocked automated fetching; those fields below are paraphrased from indexed snippets and the Clery framework, and are honestly flagged as reconstructed.
Takeaways
Key findings
SKC runs emergency notifications on Rave Alert (Rave Mobile Safety), with students automatically enrolled rather than opt-in.
The system is multi-channel — text, voice, and email at minimum, with college material also citing social media and digital signage — and is reserved for emergency/operational messaging only.
Lockdown procedures are tied to Rave Alert: SKC Administration may invoke lockdown and the alert specifies the lockdown type and instructions.
Clery framing: SKC publishes an annual report and issues timely-warning notices 'when appropriate'; criminal activity is referred to tribal police or the county sheriff.
Verbatim decision criteria, named authority, timeliness language, and a published test cadence could not be retrieved (skc.edu and the SKC catalog host blocked automated fetching), so those fields are reconstructed and flagged.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
2 documented times SKC’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
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Tags
policyemergency-notificationtimely-warningtribal-collegerave-alertmontanaflathead-reservation
Added 2026-06-21Updated 2026-06-21Via ingestion