SMCC
2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - Campus Alerts and Timely Warnings
Southern Maine Community College's 2025 Annual Security Report provides a timely warning (Campus Alert) for any serious and continuing threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus, and initiates the Rave Emergency Notification System without delay unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.
Read the official policyRave Emergency Notification System
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Campus Alert timely warningverbatim
In compliance with the Clery Act, the College will provide a timely warning (Campus Alert) to the College community of any serious and continuing threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.
- Campus Alert is parenthetical after timely warning in the live PDF.
Rave initiation without delayverbatim
SMCC will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the Rave Emergency 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 an emergency.
- Rave is the named initiation system.
Rave signup on the portalverbatim
Students or employees can sign up for Rave Alert Emergency Notifications and the Rave Guardian App® on the SMCC website located on the portal.
- Registered-trademark sign after App is live.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Timely warning (Campus Alert) for any serious and continuing threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus. Rave is initiated without delay for that notification duty.
- Who decides
- President, executive staff, Associate Dean of Administration, Director of Facilities, Critical Incident Management Team, and Security evaluate situations and initiate notifications. Dissemination is by the President, the Dean of Students, or the Associate Dean of Administration; that longer sentence contains a curly apostrophe and is not quoted.
- Timeliness standard
- Without delay, taking into account the safety of the community.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The ASR titles the section Campus Alerts and Timely Warnings and uses Campus Alert as the timely-warning product.
- Scope & limits
- Students or employees sign up for Rave Alert Emergency Notifications and the Rave Guardian App on the SMCC portal.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
SMCC (Maine community college, seven filed cases, no prior policy file; ME is a thin-state gap) publishes a live 2025 ASR PDF (HTTP 200, text layer). A Campus Alert is the college's timely-warning product for a serious and continuing on-campus threat. SMCC determines content and initiates Rave without delay, taking community safety into account, unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation. Students or employees can sign up for Rave Alert Emergency Notifications and the Rave Guardian App on the portal. Distinct from the University of Southern Maine USM Alert file. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF.
Takeaways
Key findings
Campus Alert is SMCC's timely-warning product for a serious and continuing on-campus threat.
Rave is initiated without delay unless issuing would compromise victim assistance or mitigation.
Students and employees sign up for Rave Alert and Rave Guardian on the portal.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
6 documented times SMCC’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
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policyclery-asremergency-notificationtimely-warningmainecommunity-collegerave
Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion