CCSU
2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report - Central Emergency Notification System
Central Connecticut State University's 2025 Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report automatically enrolls current employees and enrolled students in the Everbridge Emergency Notification System and issues campus-wide timely warnings for Clery crimes that represent a serious or continuing threat. The ENS page uses the system for a serious threat to campus safety.
Read the official policyCentral ENS
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
ENS consumer purposeverbatim
The ENS will be used to alert the Central community in the event of a serious threat to campus safety.
- Consumer trigger is a serious threat to campus safety.
Automatic ENS enrollmentverbatim
All members currently employed at Central or enrolled in courses at the University are automatically enrolled in the ENS.
- Students and employees auto-enroll from registration and employment records.
Everbridge vendorverbatim
Central Connecticut State University utilizes an off-site service (Everbridge) to provide quick distribution of time-sensitive emergency messages to multiple devices selected by the individual campus members.
- Everbridge is the named vendor.
Without-delay emergency notificationverbatim
Upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community Central will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system UNLESS issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.
- Live PDF capitalizes UNLESS and omits a comma after campus community.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- ENS for a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the campus community, and for major university-wide emergencies including severe weather closings. Timely warning for a Clery reportable crime or series of crimes in Clery geography that represents a serious or continuing threat.
- Who decides
- Chief of Police in collaboration with the University President and Vice President of Operations for timely warnings. Confirmation of a significant emergency is generally the Chief of Police in consultation with the President and Incident Commander.
- Timeliness standard
- Emergency notification without delay unless issuing a notification would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Timely warning is campus-wide when the threat standard is met.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR keeps campus-wide timely warnings distinct from the Central Emergency Notification System (Everbridge). An emergency notification may be used if warranted for a crime.
ChannelsSmsPhone CallEmailSirenPa SystemDigital SignagePush NotificationDesktop Popup
Analysis
Reading the policy
Central Connecticut State University (public-masters, Connecticut, five filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live 2025 Clery Report PDF (HTTP 200) plus a live ENS page (HTTP 200). Distinct from Southern Connecticut State University, which remains a gap. The Chief of Police collaborates with the University President and Vice President of Operations on timely warnings. Live without-delay wording capitalizes UNLESS and has no comma after campus community. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML.
Takeaways
Key findings
Central ENS is Everbridge; current employees and enrolled students are auto-enrolled.
Timely warnings are campus-wide notices for a serious or continuing threat in Clery geography.
The without-delay exception is written as UNLESS in the live ASR.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
4 documented times CCSU’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
- Official
Tags
policyclery-asremergency-notificationtimely-warningconnecticutpublic-masterseverbridge
Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion