Shaw
2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Emergency Notification and Evacuation
Shaw University's 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report issues emergency notifications without delay upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate threat on campus, using the website and the Regroup campus mass-notification system (telephone, text, email) branded BearsALERT.
Read the official policyBearsALERT
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Without-delay emergency notificationsverbatim
Emergency Notifications are issued without delay, considering the safety of the campus community.
- Opening sentence of the Emergency Notifications subsection.
Confirmation triggerverbatim
Notifications are sent upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.
- On-campus immediate-threat confirmation standard.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.
- Who decides
- The ASR's emergency-notification section states issuance without delay upon confirmation. Named chief-of-police drafting language in an older edition is not quoted from this 2024 PDF.
- Timeliness standard
- Without delay, considering the safety of the campus community.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The 2024 ASR treats Emergency Notification and Evacuation as a dedicated section, with timely warnings mentioned separately as an ongoing-threat product.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Shaw (Raleigh HBCU, six filed cases, no prior policy file) posts a live 2024 ASR PDF (HTTP 200, text layer). Emergency Notifications are issued without delay, considering campus-community safety, upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation that poses an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. Channels listed include the Shaw website and Regroup (telephone, text, email) plus social media and local TV. A separate Regroup login page describes preregistration of current faculty, staff, and students; that HTML was not required for these ASR excerpts. Every excerpt was character-checked against the PDF text layer.
Takeaways
Key findings
Shaw issues emergency notifications without delay upon confirmation of an on-campus immediate threat.
Regroup (BearsALERT) carries telephone, text, and email; the website and local media are additional channels.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
9 documented times Shaw’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