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How You Will Be Notified - UNE Emergency Notifications
The University of New England, a Research-2 institution with campuses in Biddeford and Portland, Maine, uses UNE Alert, a Rave Mobile Safety-powered notification service that gives faculty, professional staff, and students timely information and instructions during emergencies via text and email numbers registered through the UNE Compass student/employee portal, backed by the Rave Guardian mobile safety app.
Read the official policyInstitution
University of New England
Private R2 · ME
~6,573 studentsUNE Alert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
What UNE Alert isverbatim
UNE uses Rave Mobile Safety, an emergency notification service that provides faculty, professional staff, and students with timely information and instructions during emergencies or other urgent situations that may directly affect their well-being.
- Defines UNE Alert as a Rave Mobile Safety platform covering faculty, professional staff, and students, framed around well-being-affecting emergencies broadly, not only on-campus incidents.
Registration pathverbatim
Individuals who have entered their mobile phone number in UNE Compass following the steps above will receive urgent alerts via text message. You can add up to two additional phone numbers under UNE Alert Phone 2 and 3 to receive UNE alerts (optional).
- Documents the UNE Compass self-service registration mechanism and the optional two-additional-number ceiling per account.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- UNE Alert is used to provide faculty, professional staff, and students timely information and instructions during emergencies or other urgent situations that may directly affect their well-being, including emergency situations on campus or in the surrounding communities, school closures, and weather-related events.
- Who decides
- A specific named decision-authority title (e.g., a Clery Compliance Officer, Director of Public Safety, or similar role) was not confirmed verbatim in the public sources reviewed; UNE Alert is administered as a campus-wide Rave Mobile Safety platform tied to the university's Office of Safety and Security.
- Timeliness standard
- UNE Alert is described as providing timely information and instructions and real-time critical information during emergency situations; a specific minutes-based delivery standard was not reproduced verbatim in the sources reviewed.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- UNE maintains a separate Clery Reporting page distinct from the UNE Alert system-overview page; the specific verbatim language distinguishing timely warnings from emergency notifications under Clery was not confirmed in the sources reviewed for this entry.
- Testing cadence
- Not specified in the sources reviewed.
- Scope & limits
- Reach depends on a mobile number being entered in UNE Compass (the university's self-service portal); up to two additional numbers (UNE Alert Phone 2 and 3) can be added, and the Rave Guardian app extends functionality to smartphones. The system explicitly also covers surrounding-community conditions, not solely the on-campus footprint.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
The University of New England (UNE), a private research university with campuses in Biddeford and Portland, Maine, and additional programs in Tangier, Morocco, describes its emergency communication platform on a dedicated emergency notifications page: UNE uses Rave Mobile Safety, an emergency notification service that provides faculty, professional staff, and students with timely information and instructions during emergencies or other urgent situations that may directly affect their well-being. The platform allows the University to stay connected with the UNE community and provide critical information in real time during emergency situations on campus or in the surrounding communities, alerts during school closures, and information about weather-related events, framing the system's reach as extending to nearby off-campus conditions and not just the physical campus footprint.
Registration is handled through UNE Compass, the university's student/employee self-service portal, rather than a separate stand-alone sign-up site. Individuals who have entered their mobile phone number in UNE Compass will receive urgent alerts via text message, and a subscriber can add up to two additional phone numbers under UNE Alert Phone 2 and 3 to receive UNE alerts as an optional supplement to their primary number. The registration path runs through the portal's My Self-Service, General Services, Personal Information, and Phone Number sections, where three distinct alert phone number fields (UNE Alert1, UNE Alert2, UNE Alert3) can be populated. The platform also includes the Rave Guardian mobile app for smartphones, available on the App Store and Google Play, extending the alerting system with additional personal-safety features beyond passive text/email receipt.
UNE reached Carnegie's R2 ("Doctoral Universities - High Research Activity") research classification, a comparatively unusual research profile for an institution of its size that also runs a full Clery-covered emergency-notification program; the university publishes a separate Clery Reporting page and a cancellation/delay policy that intersects with UNE Alert for weather-related closures.
Because une.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the language above was captured from UNE's emergency-notifications page as reproduced identically across multiple independent search queries and is treated as verbatim on that basis; a specific named decision-authority title (e.g., a designated Clery Compliance Officer) and a published testing-cadence calendar were not confirmed word-for-word and are left general rather than asserted.
Takeaways
Key findings
UNE Alert is a Rave Mobile Safety-powered emergency notification service for faculty, professional staff, and students at UNE's Biddeford and Portland, Maine campuses.
Registration runs through the UNE Compass self-service portal rather than a stand-alone sign-up site; up to two additional phone numbers can be added per account.
The Rave Guardian mobile app extends the platform with additional personal-safety features on smartphones.
UNE holds Carnegie R2 (Doctoral Universities - High Research Activity) status, an unusually research-intensive profile for an institution of its size.
A specific named decision-authority title and a published testing-cadence calendar were not confirmed verbatim and are left unstated rather than invented.
Provenance
Sources
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Added 2026-07-20Updated 2026-07-20Via ingestion