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2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report - UND-Alerts
The University of North Dakota's 2025 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report makes participation in UND-Alerts mandatory for all students and employees, and the UND Alerts page uses the Campus Emergency Notification System for situations that pose an immediate threat to health or safety or that significantly disrupt programs, including school closing.
Read the official policyUND-Alerts
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Campus Emergency Notification Systemverbatim
The Campus Emergency Notification System is used to notify students, faculty, and staff of vitally important information in emergency situations.
- Consumer definition of the Campus Emergency Notification System.
UND-Alerts severe or imminent threatverbatim
UND-Alerts is UND’s campus-wide emergency notification system and is used when there is a severe or imminent threat to the public safety and health of the entire campus.
- Trigger is severe or imminent threat to the entire campus, not only a confirmed on-campus Clery emergency.
Mandatory UND-Alerts participationverbatim
Participation in UND-Alerts is mandatory for all UND students and employees.
- Mandatory enrollment, not opt-in.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- UND-Alerts when there is a severe or imminent threat to the public safety and health of the entire campus. The consumer page also covers an immediate threat to health or safety or a significant disruption of programs and activities, including school closing.
- Who decides
- First responders and essential personnel in the Department of Public Safety, including the Associate Vice President for Public Safety/Chief of Police or designee, the police officer on duty, the Director for Safety or designee, and the Director for Emergency Management or designee.
- Timeliness standard
- UND-Alerts is used for severe or imminent threat. The ASR states UND tests UND-Alerts at least once each semester.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- UND-Alerts is the emergency-notification product. Timely warnings are a separate ASR duty for Clery crimes that may continue to pose a serious or continuing threat.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
The University of North Dakota (public-r1, North Dakota, five filed cases, no prior policy file) is distinct from North Dakota State University, which already has an NDSU Alert policy file. The live 2025 ASR PDF (HTTP 200) names UND-Alerts as the campus-wide emergency notification system for a severe or imminent threat to the public safety and health of the entire campus, with mandatory student and employee participation and a test at least once each semester. The live UND Alerts page (HTTP 200) defines an emergency as an immediate threat to health or safety or a significant disruption of institution or system programs and activities, such as school closing. Phone numbers from Campus Connection and Employee Self-Service feed telephone and text alerts. Every excerpt was character-checked against the live PDF or HTML (whitespace-only wrap).
Takeaways
Key findings
UND-Alerts is mandatory for all students and employees.
The ASR trigger is a severe or imminent threat to the public safety and health of the entire campus.
The consumer page also treats school closing as an emergency that significantly disrupts programs and activities.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
2 documented times UND’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
- Official
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Added 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion