WVWC
Campus Safety and Security, Annual Security and Fire Safety Report
West Virginia Wesleyan College, a small private liberal arts college in Buckhannon, encourages students and employees to sign up for its Emergency Alert service, which sends text messages to cell phones during a campus emergency, and publishes campus crime statistics annually each October under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act, with reports handled by the Office of Campus Safety and Security.
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West Virginia Wesleyan College
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WVWC Emergency Alert
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Emergency Alert text servicenot yet verified against the source
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West Virginia Wesleyan College, Campus Safety and Security (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)Annual Clery disclosurenot yet verified against the source
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West Virginia Wesleyan College, Campus Safety and Security (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)Reporting suspicious activitynot yet verified against the source
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West Virginia Wesleyan College, Campus Safety and Security (reconstructed from search engine indexed text; host blocked automated fetching in this environment)At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- The Emergency Alert service is described as providing text messages to cell phones in the event of a campus emergency; a specific numeric or crime-type triggering threshold distinct from that general framing was not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed.
- Who decides
- WVWC's Office of Campus Safety and Security is presented as the office maintaining crime statistics and administering campus safety generally; a single named official with sign off authority to trigger a specific Emergency Alert was not confirmed in the sources reviewed.
- Timeliness standard
- Not specified with a numeric standard in the sources reviewed.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- WVWC states it complies with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act, publishing campus crime statistics annually during October; the specific text distinguishing an emergency notification from a timely warning was not independently confirmed on the pages reviewed.
- Testing cadence
- Not specified in the sources reviewed.
- Scope & limits
- The Emergency Alert service reaches cell phones by text message for students and employees who sign up; current crime statistics may separately be requested directly from the Office of Campus Safety and Security.
ChannelsSms
Analysis
Reading the policy
West Virginia Wesleyan College's Campus Safety and Security office encourages the campus community to sign up for its Emergency Alert service, described as providing text messages to cell phones in the event of a campus emergency, the college's primary named alerting tool for a residential campus of roughly 1,300 students. As required by federal law through the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act, WVWC publishes campus crime statistics annually during October, with current statistics available on request from the Office of Campus Safety and Security, and the college maintains successive Annual Security and Fire Safety Reports, including editions covering 2024 and 2025.
Students can report suspicious persons or activities directly to Campus Security, and separate reporting channels exist for Title IX concerns through a form posted at the college's Title IX page and a Campus Conduct Hotline. As a small private liberal arts college bound by the same Clery Act obligations as much larger institutions, WVWC's public facing pages emphasize the opt in Emergency Alert text service and annual statistical disclosure rather than publishing a lengthy standalone notification procedure document on its main safety webpage; the fuller notification and timely warning procedure language would sit inside the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report itself.
Because wvwc.edu returned blocked connections to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below are reconstructed from search engine indexed extracts of the official pages and report rather than a firsthand character by character read, and no excerpt is treated as a confirmed exact quotation; this record is scored at medium confidence on that basis.
Takeaways
Key findings
WVWC's named alerting tool is an opt in Emergency Alert text service reaching cell phones during a campus emergency.
The college publishes campus crime statistics annually each October under the Clery Act, with current statistics available on request from Campus Safety and Security.
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Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Clery ASR
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policyemergency-notificationclery-actprivate-liberal-artswest-virginia
Added 2026-09-27Updated 2026-09-27Via ingestion