Walden
2023-2024 Annual Disclosure: Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security (Clery Act)
Walden University, a for-profit, predominantly online institution headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, publishes an Annual Disclosure covering Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security under the Clery Act, addressing Clery-related obligations for an institution whose 'campus' is almost entirely virtual.
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Walden University
For Profit · MN
Walden University Emergency Notification
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What the policy says
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At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the Annual Disclosure is stated to include a section addressing the issuing of timely warnings.
- Who decides
- Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the disclosure is stated to list the titles of the person(s) or organization(s) responsible for carrying out the notification process, per standard Clery ASR structure, though the specific named titles were not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.
- Timeliness standard
- Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Walden's Annual Disclosure covers Residency Safety, Campus Security Authority designations, a law-enforcement Memorandum of Understanding, Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures, and a statement addressing timely warnings; specific verbatim emergency-notification language was not retrievable from this sandbox.
- Testing cadence
- Per general Clery ASR structure, institutions must describe procedures for testing emergency evacuation and response processes and systems at least annually; Walden's specific testing-cadence language for its residency-based model was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.
- Scope & limits
- Walden is a predominantly online, for-profit university whose in-person contact is largely limited to short residency sessions rather than a fixed residential campus; its Clery Act compliance posture is built around Residency Safety procedures rather than a traditional campus perimeter.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Walden University is a for-profit, primarily online institution based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, enrolling a large distance-education student population across graduate and undergraduate programs. As with other predominantly online institutions, Walden's Clery Act obligations are structured around a much smaller physical footprint than a traditional residential university, which shapes how its timely-warning and emergency-notification practice applies in practice.
Walden's Annual Disclosure document, published on the university's Student Safety / Title IX page, is stated to include sections on Residency Safety (covering Walden's limited-duration in-person residency sessions), Campus Security Authority designations, a Memorandum of Understanding with local law enforcement, Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures, and a statement addressing the issuing of timely warnings. Per general reporting on the document, Walden completes its Clery Act reporting and disclosures without including personally identifying victim information, and the university states it conducts an annual review of its residency safety program and related Clery obligations to ensure ongoing compliance. Because Walden's academic model periodically brings distributed online students together for short in-person 'residency' sessions at hotel or conference-center venues rather than a fixed campus, its Annual Security Report necessarily documents a Clery Act compliance posture built around those temporary, multi-site gatherings rather than a single physical campus perimeter.
This sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch waldenu.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Annual Disclosure's timely-warning and emergency-notification sections; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the document's stated table of contents and general description, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.
Takeaways
Key findings
Walden University, a predominantly online for-profit institution based in Minneapolis, publishes an Annual Disclosure covering Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security under the Clery Act.
The disclosure's stated sections include Residency Safety, Campus Security Authority, a law-enforcement MOU, Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures, and a timely-warnings statement -- structured around Walden's brief in-person residency sessions rather than a fixed campus.
waldenu.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpt is marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
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Added 2026-09-20Updated 2026-09-20Via ingestion