Strayer
StrayerALERT Emergency Notification and Timely Warning Policy (Annual Security Report)
Strayer University, a for-profit university headquartered in Washington, D.C. with leased campuses across more than a dozen states, runs StrayerALERT, an email-and-text emergency-notification system activated by a Crisis Response Team and documented in its Annual Security Reports.
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What the policy says
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Strayer University — Campus Safety page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- StrayerALERT covers a broad set of campus emergencies — medical, weather, fire, explosions, workplace/campus violence, active shooter, and suspicious persons/packages. Following the Clery standard, the University acts 'without delay' to confirm the existence of a significant emergency or dangerous situation before notifying.
- Who decides
- A member of the Crisis Response Team (Crisis Response Management Team) decides whether to send an emergency notification and issues it through the University's third-party notification provider and the iCampus portal. An employee aware of an emergency calls 9-1-1 first, then the Crisis Response Team.
- Timeliness standard
- Strayer follows the federal Clery standard — acting 'without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community' to confirm a significant emergency or dangerous situation. No Strayer-specific minute target was found.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Strayer distinguishes emergency notifications (significant emergency / dangerous situation, via StrayerALERT) from timely warnings of reportable Clery crimes that constitute a threat; if an emergency notification stems from a Clery crime, a timely warning is also issued. Three years of crime statistics are published in the ASR.
- Testing cadence
- Strayer states the notification system and evacuation procedures are tested at least annually, with the General Counsel advised of the date, time, and result of the annual test.
- Scope & limits
- Notifications are campus-specific — subscribers select the campus(es) they want to hear from. Students are auto-registered with a valid Strayer email but must supply a mobile number to receive texts. Channels are limited to email and SMS (no siren/PA/social documented), consistent with leased physical campuses.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Strayer University is a for-profit institution owned by Strategic Education, Inc. (which also owns Capella University). Despite a heavily online model, Strayer maintains a substantive, multi-year published emergency-notification policy — branded **StrayerALERT** — across its campus-safety page and Annual Security Reports from 2017 through 2024.
Strayer describes StrayerALERT as a system that 'will use email and text messaging to quickly inform students of a campus emergency.' Activation is governed by a **Crisis Response Team**: per Strayer's ASRs, if it is determined that an emergency notification should be sent, a member of the Crisis Response Team sends it through the University's third-party notification provider and the iCampus portal, with certain messages pre-formulated to speed delivery. An employee aware of an emergency is instructed to call 9-1-1 first and then alert the Crisis Response Team. The covered scenarios are broad — medical and weather emergencies, fire, explosions, workplace/campus violence, active shooter, and suspicious persons or packages.
The vendor behind StrayerALERT has changed over time: older materials point to Rave Mobile Safety (the getrave.com registration portal), while the 2024 ASR states Strayer 'has an emergency alert system, Everbridge,' with an Everbridge member portal — indicating a migration from Rave to Everbridge. For the Clery duties, Strayer issues timely warnings of reportable Clery crimes that constitute a threat, and follows the standard 'without delay … confirm the existence of a significant emergency or dangerous situation' framing; it states the notification system and evacuation procedures are tested at least annually, with the General Counsel advised of each test's date, time, and result. Every strayer.edu page and ASR PDF returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so all wording below was captured from search-index reproductions and could not be byte-for-byte confirmed against the source documents; accordingly the excerpts are marked reconstructed and the entry carries medium confidence.
Takeaways
Key findings
Strayer (a D.C.-headquartered for-profit) runs StrayerALERT, an email + text emergency-notification system documented in ASRs from 2017 to 2024.
Activation rests with a Crisis Response Team, which sends pre-formulated messages via a third-party provider and the iCampus portal after 9-1-1.
The vendor migrated from Rave Mobile Safety (getrave.com portal) to Everbridge by the 2024 ASR.
The system and evacuation procedures are tested at least annually, with results reported to the General Counsel.
All strayer.edu sources blocked automated fetching, so every excerpt is snippet-derived and marked reconstructed; confidence is medium.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
1 documented time Strayer’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Clery ASR
- Clery ASR
- Reference
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Added 2026-06-21Updated 2026-09-13Via ingestion