Overview

The health and safety of students is a primary concern. By definition a crisis is:

• Unanticipated incident that indirectly or directly affects student
• Incident that puts student mental and physical health and safety at risk

Reporting 

Fill out the Universal Incident Notification Report.

Definitions and examples of incident levels:

Level One:

Minor incident (e.g. minor illness/injury/accident, behavioral discipline, petty theft)

Level Two:

Incident that risks the well-being of student and requires immediate attention from host program. Incident should be communicated to home university. Home university’s level of response may vary depending on the severity of the situation (e.g. missing participant, serious illness/injury, criminal charges, assault, psychological trouble, eating disorder, alcohol/drug abuse, family emergency).

Level Three:

Incident that risks the well-being of student and requires immediate and collaborative response from host program and home university. (e.g. natural disaster, critical health condition requiring medical evacuation, significant political unrest or threat, global influenza outbreak determined by the Center for Disease Control, hostage situation, terrorism, FEMA or host country declared disaster, death).

Level Notifications

The Center for Global Programs will notify Level Two and Level Three Incidents to the appropriate university officials. If further action is required, the Center will work closely with Northwestern’s Emergency Response Team to determine next steps.

Recipients of Level Two notification

• Director Global Initiatives, Senior Dean Academic Administration, SVP Academic Affairs, Director Public Safety, Risk Management Personnel, Senior Dean Student Life, Director Health Services, Public Relations Personnel 

Recipients of Level Three notification

• Officials listed above, including President and Cabinet of University