WVU-PD-1-B — Emergency Notifications (WVU Alerts), Timely Warnings (Campus Warnings) and WVU Community Notices

...the significant emergency or dangerous situation will be confirmed by the University Police Department and it is the Chief of Police or designee's decision to initiate an Emergency Notification (WVU Alert).

• — Names a single-pointed decision authority: WVU Police confirms the situation, and the Chief of Police or designee decides to initiate the WVU Alert. This exact sentence appeared identically across two independent retrievals; police.wvu.edu blocked direct fetching, so it was captured from the search index.

Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees, the University will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of an Emergency Notification (WVU Alert) and initiate its emergency notification procedures.

• — Applies the Clery 'without delay' standard to the WVU Alert. The core clause ('the University will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community...') reproduced identically across retrievals, but the surrounding sentence (especially the mitigation-exception tail) varied slightly, so the full sentence is marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false.

WVU Alert notifications are sent at the discretion of WVU Police and University leadership and are only sent when our community is believed to be in immediate danger. These messages will be sent to our community immediately upon confirmation of the situation.

• — Public-facing framing of the Tier-1 standard: WVU Alerts go out 'immediately upon confirmation of the situation' and only for immediate danger. 'immediately upon confirmation of the situation' and 'believed to be in immediate danger' appeared across two-plus retrievals (E-News plus the Tier-1 safety/police pages).

A Campus Warning is sent when a Clery-reportable crime occurs within the area designated by the Clery Act and reported to campus security authorities like WVU Police or local police agencies, and are considered by the University to represent a serious or continuing threat to students and employees.

• — Frames the Tier-2 Campus Warning as WVU's Clery timely warning, triggered by Clery-reportable crimes representing a serious or continuing threat. Appeared in a single retrieval, so marked isVerbatimConfirmed:false; the 'serious or continuing threat' trigger is the standard Clery timely-warning language and is consistent with the WVU-PD-1-B policy title.

WVU is required to send out one test message each semester (fall, spring, and summer), so expect three test messages during the academic year.

• — Establishes a concrete published test cadence of three tests per academic year (fall, spring, summer). This wording appeared identically across two-plus retrievals and is corroborated by real-world test announcements (Aug 2024, Sept 2025, Feb 2026).