Emergency Procedures

Texas State believes strongly in protecting the health, safety and welfare of its students, faculty and staff. To do so in emergencies requires preparation, so we invite you to visit these pages often and familiarize yourself with appropriate emergency procedures.

The university uses several methods to communicate information in the event of an emergency. These include:

• TXSTate RAVE Texting System
• The university home page at www.txstate.edu
• E-mail from the University News Service or the University Police Department to all students, faculty and staff
• Messages recorded on the university news hotline at (512) 245-2424
• Voicemail messages sent to all campus telephones
• Local media announcements
• Texas State weather emergency siren system
• Emergency sign board system
• Reverse 911

Texas State University will, without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate appropriate notification, unless issuing a notification will, in the professional judgment of responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist a victim or contain, respond or otherwise mitigate the emergency.

The Web pages linked at the left provide important emergency contacts as well as information about how to best respond to specific situations.