Communication Guidelines

  1. The President and the Emergency Response Team should be informed immediately of existing emergencies. Complete details should be made available to them, including what it is, how it began, who is involved, what is happening now and what help has been called for.
  2. In addition to notifying Campus Safety, executive and supervisory personnel should notify the Media Relations Director about any emergency, even a minor one.
  3. All calls from the media should be referred directly to the Media Relations Director. University employees should not speak on behalf of the University to the media.
  4. The Media Relations Director will manage all internal and external communications, with the counsel of the Crisis/Issues Management team, and assistance from the spokespeople who are specifically assigned and authorized to speak for the University