UPRM
Plan de Respuesta y Desalojo en Caso de Emergencias (Emergency Response and Evacuation Plan)
The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez, RUM) — a public land-grant institution in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico — coordinates emergency alerting through its Portal de Emergencias and the campus Plan de Respuesta y Desalojo en Caso de Emergencias, with the Emergency Coordinator and the Guardia Universitaria (campus police) directing notifications during earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and other hazards.
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University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Territory · PR
~10,618 studentsPortal de Emergencias RUM
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Emergency Coordinator notifies the Guardia Universitarianot 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.
Plan de Respuesta y Desalojo en Caso de Emergencias (RUM)Intercom system for emergency notificationnot 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.
Plan de Respuesta y Desalojo en Caso de Emergencias (RUM)At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- The plans address response to campus emergencies including earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, fires, and other hazards; the Emergency Coordinator or representative notifies the Guardia Universitaria and campus officials, who activate alarm/intercom and evacuation procedures. A specific Clery-style 'confirmation of an immediate threat' trigger sentence was not located verbatim in the public Spanish-language materials.
- Who decides
- The Emergency Coordinator (Coordinador de Emergencias) or their representative notifies the Guardia Universitaria and other campus officials of an emergency. The Departamento de Transito y Vigilancia (which houses the Guardia Universitaria) operates under the Dean of Administration and is the operational arm for response and notification.
- Timeliness standard
- Not located verbatim in the public Spanish-language plans; the plans describe immediate notification of the Guardia Universitaria and activation of alarm/intercom and evacuation procedures upon an emergency.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- An explicit emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning Clery framing was not located in the publicly available Spanish-language UPRM plans reviewed here. As a Title IV institution, UPRM is subject to the Clery Act and publishes campus safety information; the detailed framing would reside in its Annual Security Report.
- Testing cadence
- Emergency drills and simulations on how to act in case of emergencies are conducted at least one to two times per year; UPRM also participates in the annual Caribe Wave tsunami exercise via the campus-hosted Puerto Rico Seismic Network.
- Scope & limits
- Public materials emphasize a plan-and-coordinator activation model (intercom/alarm, Portal de Emergencias, website, social media) plus territory-wide siren/broadcast/text alerting for tsunami and hurricane hazards, rather than a single named SMS opt-in product.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez documents its alerting and evacuation procedures in the campus Plan de Respuesta y Desalojo en Caso de Emergencias (Emergency Response and Evacuation Plan), supplemented by a campus-wide Plan Operacional de Emergencia. The public-facing hub is the RUM Portal de Emergencias, which serves as the official information channel to the university community during emergencies. Because UPRM material is published primarily in Spanish, the policy language below is paraphrased from the plans and portal rather than quoted verbatim — no exact reproduced sentence could be byte-confirmed, since the uprm.edu hosts return HTTP 403 to direct fetches.
On **authority and process**, the plan establishes that the Emergency Coordinator (Coordinador de Emergencias) or their representative notifies the Guardia Universitaria and other campus officials of an emergency; the Departamento de Transito y Vigilancia, which houses the Guardia Universitaria, reports to the Dean of Administration and is the operational arm for response and notification. The plan covers procedures for notifying emergencies, the alarm/intercom system, the evacuation policy, and the roles of personnel who remain after an evacuation.
UPRM's hazard profile drives its **alerting channels**. The campus has installed an intercom system that facilitates emergency notification, and the Portal de Emergencias plus the institutional website and social media carry advisories. For seismic and coastal hazards, the campus-hosted Red Sismica de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Seismic Network) — physically located at UPRM — publishes tsunami evacuation maps for Mayaguez and participates in the annual Caribe Wave tsunami exercise; territory-wide tsunami alerting reaches the public through community sirens, text-message alerts, NOAA weather radio, and broadcast media. The plan notes that emergency drills and simulations are conducted at least one to two times per year.
Unlike many mainland campuses with a single branded mass-notification vendor (Everbridge, Rave, etc.), the publicly available UPRM materials emphasize a **plan-and-coordinator model** — an Emergency Coordinator and Guardia Universitaria activating intercom/alarm, portal, website, and external siren/broadcast channels — rather than a named SMS opt-in product. The full Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning framing and any 'without delay' timing standard were not located in the public Spanish-language plans available to this review, so this entry is rated medium confidence and relies on paraphrase.
Takeaways
Key findings
UPRM (Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez) governs alerting through its Plan de Respuesta y Desalojo en Caso de Emergencias and Plan Operacional de Emergencia, with the public-facing Portal de Emergencias as the information hub.
Activation runs through the Emergency Coordinator and the Guardia Universitaria (Departamento de Transito y Vigilancia, under the Dean of Administration) — a plan-and-coordinator model rather than a single branded SMS vendor.
Channels include a campus intercom/alarm system, the emergencies portal, the website and social media, plus territory-wide tsunami/hurricane sirens, text alerts, and broadcast media.
The campus hosts the Puerto Rico Seismic Network and produces Mayaguez tsunami evacuation maps; it runs drills one-to-two times per year and joins the annual Caribe Wave exercise.
UPRM material is published primarily in Spanish; no exact policy sentence could be byte-confirmed (uprm.edu hosts return HTTP 403), so this entry is paraphrase-based and rated medium confidence.
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Added 2026-06-21Updated 2026-09-20Via ingestion