OCCC
Campus Alert Notification System (CAN)
Oklahoma City Community College's Campus Alert Notification System page describes CAN as a comprehensive alert notification system for students and employees, designed to quickly communicate information regarding emergency situations on campus and any campus closures that may be necessary. Current students and employees already have their college email in the system.
Read the official policyCampus Alert Notification (CAN)
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
CAN definitionverbatim
CAN is a comprehensive alert notification system for all of our students and employees.
- Named system.
Emergency and closure purposeverbatim
This system is designed to quickly communicate information regarding emergency situations on campus and any campus closures that may be necessary.
- Trigger includes campus closures.
Email auto-inclusionverbatim
As a current OCCC student or employee, your college email address already is included in the Campus Alert Notification system.
- Live wording is already is included.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Emergency situations on campus and any campus closures that may be necessary.
- Who decides
- Not named on the quoted CAN paragraphs.
- Timeliness standard
- The system is designed to quickly communicate. No minutes-based SLA is quoted.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- This file is the consumer CAN overview. A separate Clery statistics page exists; it was not quoted here.
- Scope & limits
- College email is included for current students and employees. Text requires a cellphone number on file. Alternate contacts can be added through the OCCC Shield App.
ChannelsEmailSmsWebsite
Analysis
Reading the policy
OCCC (Oklahoma community college, four filed cases, no prior policy file) publishes a live CAN / OCCC Shield page (HTTP 200). CAN is a comprehensive alert notification system for all students and employees. It is designed to quickly communicate information regarding emergency situations on campus and any campus closures that may be necessary. As a current student or employee, the college email address already is included. Text messages require a current cellphone number on file in the self-service portal. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live HTML.
Takeaways
Key findings
CAN is the comprehensive alert system for OCCC students and employees.
It is used for on-campus emergencies and campus closures.
College email is already included; text requires a number on file.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
4 documented times OCCC’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
Tags
policysystem-overviewemergency-notificationoklahomacommunity-college
Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion