Sheridan College
Emergency Notifications
Sheridan College, part of the Northern Wyoming Community College District (NWCCD), publishes an Emergency Notifications policy describing its Regroup-powered "Alert Me" system, which automatically emails every college-issued address and lets students and employees opt in to text and voice alerts, backed by radio, an on-campus audible alert system, the college website, social media, and digital signage.
Read the official policy~4,559 studentsAlert Me
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Multi-channel activationverbatim
In the event of an emergency, college officials will use all appropriate methods to alert students, employees and the public, including, radio, on-campus audible alert system, official college website, social media outlets and on-campus digital signage.
- Reconstructed from search-engine indexing of the Emergency Notifications page; substance was consistent across queries but exact sentence wording was not independently byte-verified due to a 403 block on direct fetches of sheridan.edu.
Alert Me automatic email enrollmentnot yet verified against the source
The policy addresses this topic; its exact wording has not yet been verified against the source, so no text is quoted here. Open the official policy to read it.
Emergency Notifications - Sheridan CollegeNWCCD Alert app featuresnot yet verified against the source
The policy addresses this topic; its exact wording has not yet been verified against the source, so no text is quoted here. Open the official policy to read it.
Alert app part of proactive safety at Sheridan College - The Sheridan PressAt a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- The policy describes activation "in the event of an emergency," using multiple simultaneous channels to alert students, employees, and the public; a specific itemized trigger list was not confirmed.
- Who decides
- Not confirmed in the sources reviewed; the Campus Safety office administers the page, but no single named approving official was reproduced.
- Timeliness standard
- No specific minutes-based standard was confirmed; the page frames the response as using "all appropriate methods" concurrently rather than a sequenced escalation.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Not explicitly confirmed for Sheridan College specifically in the material available; the college separately references a Clery-required Annual Security and Fire Safety Report through its Consumer Information disclosures.
- Testing cadence
- No confirmed recurring testing cadence was found in the sources reviewed.
- Scope & limits
- Automatic email enrollment covers all college-issued addresses; text and voice reach depends on a student or employee separately registering a cell number in the Alert Me profile.
ChannelsSmsEmailPhone CallSirenWebsiteDigital Signage
Analysis
Reading the policy
Sheridan College, operating under the Northern Wyoming Community College District alongside Gillette College, publishes a standalone Emergency Notifications page describing a layered emergency-communication approach. The page indicates that, in an emergency, college officials will use multiple channels at once rather than a single mass-text blast: radio, an on-campus audible alert system, the official college website, social media outlets, and on-campus digital signage, in addition to the branded "Alert Me" notification system.
Alert Me runs on the Regroup mass-notification platform. Every college-issued email address is enrolled automatically, which guarantees a baseline reach across the student and employee population without any signup step; students and employees who additionally want text and voice alerts must separately register a cell number in their Alert Me profile. NWCCD also operates a companion mobile app (in place since the 2016 spring semester per the Sheridan Press) with an emergency-dial shortcut to campus police, an anonymous tip-reporting feature (iReport), and a Safety Escort request feature, layered on top of, rather than replacing, the Alert Me notification channel.
This environment's outbound network returns HTTP 403 for direct fetches of sheridan.edu, so the material above comes from official page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing rather than a byte-level page fetch. Repeated queries converged on consistent substance (the Regroup-based Alert Me name, the automatic email enrollment, the named channel list) but not on identical sentence-level wording between separate queries, so the excerpts below are reported as reconstructed rather than independently verbatim-confirmed. No decision-authority language, minutes-based timing standard, testing cadence, or Clery emergency-notification-versus-timely-warning framing specific to Sheridan College could be confirmed from the sources available in this session.
Takeaways
Key findings
Sheridan College (NWCCD) uses a Regroup-powered system branded "Alert Me," with automatic enrollment of every college-issued email address.
Text and voice alerts require separate opt-in registration of a cell number in the Alert Me profile; email is the only channel with guaranteed automatic reach.
The policy describes concurrent use of radio, an on-campus audible alert system, the college website, social media, and digital signage alongside Alert Me during an emergency.
A companion NWCCD Alert mobile app (since spring 2016) adds a police-dial shortcut, anonymous tip reporting (iReport), and a Safety Escort request feature.
No decision-authority language, timing standard, testing cadence, or Clery framing specific to Sheridan College could be confirmed from the sources available.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
1 documented time Sheridan College’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Official
- News
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Added 2026-07-03Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion