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Tiger Alert Emergency Notification / Emergency Preparedness Plan & 2025 Crime, Fire and Safety Report
Tuskegee University — a private HBCU in Tuskegee, Alabama — runs emergency notifications through **Tiger Alert**, which the Tuskegee University Police Department operates on the Rave Mobile Safety platform to push "mass e-mail, text and voicemail" alerts to the campus community. The University officially launched the Rave-powered system on April 7, 2025, urging all students, faculty, staff and campus personnel to sign up for notifications by email, voice message, or text by registering through TigerWeb and downloading the companion TU Secure app.
Read the official policy~3,121 studentsTiger Alert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
TigerAlert channels and notification scopeverbatim
TigerAlert will notify you of any incidents via mass e-mail, text and voicemail.
- Defines Tiger Alert's three delivery channels (email, text, voicemail); reproduced identically across multiple official search snippets from the TUPD Emergency Preparedness Plan.
TUPD and University Safety Officer response roleverbatim
The Tuskegee University Police Department, in conjunction with the University Safety Officer will call the appropriate law enforcement, fire, or health agency to respond, assess the situation, and provide advice on when it is safe to resume normal activities.
- Establishes the decision/confirmation authority (TUPD + University Safety Officer) and the response-coordination role; reproduced from the TUPD Emergency Preparedness Plan.
Opt-in registration and channelsverbatim
All Tuskegee University students, faculty, staff and campus personnel are urged to sign up for emergency notifications by e-mail (campus e-mail account only), voice message or text messaging by downloading the RAVE Secure App.
- Establishes that email is limited to campus accounts and that voice/text require opt-in registration, with the Rave/TU Secure app as the enrollment channel; reproduced from the Tiger Alert page.
Timely warning standardnot 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.
Tuskegee University 2025 Crime, Fire and Safety ReportAt a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Tiger Alert is activated to notify the campus community of incidents and emergencies — including severe weather, campus closures, and other urgent threats — upon confirmation by TUPD. Separately, Timely Warnings / Crime Alerts are issued for Clery-reportable crimes that present an ongoing threat to the campus community.
- Who decides
- The Tuskegee University Police Department (TUPD), in conjunction with the University Safety Officer, confirms the situation, contacts the appropriate law enforcement/fire/health agency, and activates Tiger Alert; TUPD coordinates with law-enforcement partners on timely warnings / crime alerts.
- Timeliness standard
- Tiger Alert mass email and mass text messages are sent to all students, faculty and staff 'as soon as possible,' and timely warnings are issued 'in a manner that is timely' to aid in the prevention of similar crimes, consistent with the Clery Act.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Two distinct Clery tracks: (1) Tiger Alert emergency notifications for incidents involving an immediate threat (active threats, severe weather, campus closures); (2) Timely Warnings / Crime Alerts for Clery-reportable crimes that present an ongoing threat to the community.
- Testing cadence
- Not specified in the sources captured; the University's Crime, Fire and Safety Report addresses Clery testing of emergency response and evacuation procedures, but the exact cadence was not reproduced in the material reviewed.
- Scope & limits
- Tiger Alert covers emergencies, severe weather, campus closures, and other urgent updates. Email reaches campus email accounts; voice and text delivery require opt-in registration through TigerWeb, with the TU Secure app as the companion channel. Email delivery is limited to campus email accounts only.
ChannelsEmailSmsPhone CallPush NotificationWebsite
Analysis
Reading the policy
Tuskegee University's emergency-alert program is branded **Tiger Alert (TigerAlert)** and is operated by the **Tuskegee University Police Department (TUPD)**. Per the University's emergency-preparedness materials, "TigerAlert will notify you of any incidents via mass e-mail, text and voicemail," and the standard communications procedure is to push a Tiger Alert mass email and mass text "to all students, faculty and staff as soon as possible" and to post a Tiger Alert message on the Tuskegee University home page. The system is opt-in for the voice and text channels: "All Tuskegee University students, faculty, staff and campus personnel are urged to sign up for emergency notifications by e-mail (campus e-mail account only), voice message or text messaging," with contact information maintained through TigerWeb.
**Platform / vendor.** In 2025 Tuskegee migrated Tiger Alert onto **Rave Mobile Safety** (Rave Alert), a FedRAMP-authorized mass-notification platform, paired with the **TU Secure** mobile app (built on Rave Guardian). Local coverage of the launch describes the platform as providing "instant notifications via text, email and voicemail in the event of emergencies, severe weather, campus closures and other urgent updates," and the University's own announcement notes TUPD uses the platform to notify the campus "by sending alerts via text, email and an automated call to their phones with just one click." TU Secure additionally connects users with campus police during emergencies and adds location-sharing and campus-map features.
**Decision authority and response.** The emergency-preparedness plan assigns the activation and follow-up coordination to TUPD working with a University Safety Officer: "The Tuskegee University Police Department, in conjunction with the University Safety Officer will call the appropriate law enforcement, fire, or health agency to respond, assess the situation, and provide advice on when it is safe to resume normal activities." This reflects the Clery confirm-then-notify model, with TUPD confirming the emergency and initiating the Tiger Alert dissemination.
**Clery two-track framing.** Tuskegee's 2025 Crime, Fire and Safety Report and police-page policy keep the Clery separation between emergency notifications (immediate-threat events, delivered via Tiger Alert) and **Timely Warnings / Crime Alerts** (Clery-reportable crimes that pose an ongoing threat). Per the University's policy, timely warnings "are issued to alert the University community to certain crimes in a manner that is timely and will aid in the prevention of similar crimes," with TUPD coordinating with law-enforcement partners to issue a Crime Alert when a reported crime presents an ongoing threat.
Takeaways
Key findings
Tiger Alert is Tuskegee University's emergency notification system, operated by TUPD and delivering mass email, text, and voicemail alerts to the campus community.
In 2025 the University moved Tiger Alert onto the Rave Mobile Safety (Rave Alert) platform, paired with the TU Secure mobile app, officially launched April 7, 2025.
Voice and text delivery are opt-in via TigerWeb registration; email delivery is limited to campus email accounts.
TUPD, in conjunction with the University Safety Officer, confirms the situation and activates Tiger Alert, coordinating with outside law-enforcement/fire/health agencies.
The University maintains the Clery two-track structure: Tiger Alert emergency notifications for immediate threats alongside Timely Warnings / Crime Alerts for Clery-reportable ongoing-threat crimes.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
4 documented times TU’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Official
- Clery ASR
- Official
- News
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Added 2026-06-21Updated 2026-09-13Via ingestion