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Members of the Trinity University community are asked to prepare for crises by doing the following:
- Be attentive to and report any suspicious
activity immediately to campus authorities.
- Be acquainted with procedures to follow
in the event of an emergency. These emergencies include weather and natural
disasters, violence toward members of the community, and accidents related to
hazardous materials.
- Be attentive to University emergency
notification mechanisms: text messaging, e-mail, telephone intercom announcements,
telephone text display announcements, and the Trinity Web site.
- Be aware that all University telephones
have a “panic button” that allows callers to have two-way communications
directly with the Campus Security dispatcher.
The Trinity University staff strives
to be attentive to students in academic, personal, and emotional needs of
students. A team that is made up of staff members from Academic Affairs, the
Registrars Office, the Dean of Students Office, Campus Security, Campus Environmental Safety,
and others meets regularly to identify and intervene with those needing
assistance. Report any concerns about fellow community members to the Dean of
Students.
The Crisis Management Team meets
regularly to review University policies, procedures, and practices related to
responding to emergency situations.
Notification Procedures
TrinAlert - Click here to register to have
emergency text announcements sent directly to your cell phone. Only warnings
requiring immediate action will be sent via this system.
Emergency Telephone Alert - Messages
may be broadcast directly to all student rooms and offices where there are
University telephones. Messages will scroll as text and/or be broadcast over
the telephone as intercom announcements.
E-mail Notification
E-mail messages - Official news, information and instructions will be distributed by e-mail. Please check your Trinity e-mail on a regular basis. If you need to check e-mail from the Web, please go to https://exchange.trinity.edu
Students:
Emergency Contact Information - Do your parent(s) or guardian(s) know how to reach you during a crisis? Fill-out this form and it will send important contact information to your parent(s) or guardian(s).
Web page updates
Official news, information and instructions will be posted on the University Web site.
The Emergency Web site- http://emergency.trinity.edu. This Web site is hosted
from a location off-campus (half-way across the country) and will be used to
communicate information in the event of an emergency/disaster and campus
network outage. In the event of a large scale or campus-wide disaster, you
should visit http://emergency.trinity.edu for current, vital Trinity information.
In the Event of a Crisis
Think personal safety first,
assistance of others in need second, and defer to professionals who will be
doing all they can to stabilize any crisis situation.
If a campus-wide crisis occurs, Security
personnel will immediately respond to the scene. The Security staff will
contact the Safety staff and Physical Plant for assistance as needed. Security
will also contact local San Antonio emergency responders for assistance. On and
off-campus law enforcement agencies will likely set-up and incident command
center on campus.
- Those on campus are to respond to any
campus-wide notification as quickly as possible.
- The Crisis Management Team will set up an
emergency operations center somewhere on campus to convene and make decisions
about required follow-up.
- Decisions about continuation of class and
regular office functions will be communicated as soon as possible through
regular channels.
- A hotline may be set-up to allow family
members and friends to call in to learn more details about those who may have
been immediately involved or effected. Calls simply seeking general information
should be avoided to free up resources to deal with immediate situations.
- Information about the crisis and its
resolution as well as any casualties will be communicated as soon as is
reasonably appropriate.
- Longer term plans and information will be
released as an initial assessment is completed.
- Employees are asked to not talk to the
media but to defer to the Crisis Management Team. The University will be
represented by a spokesperson from the University Communications Office or the
President’s Office.
University community members and
parents are asked to allow the University staff and the Crisis Management Team
to focus on the emergency at hand and to delay processing the quality and
timeliness of the University response until the immediate situation and
secondary situations have been dealt with.
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