Resources for Faculty

Preparing for emergencies on campus is a shared responsibility among PSU’s administrative units, schools, departments, and individual faculty, staff, and students. This page includes resources for faculty to include: important emergency contact information, steps to take before classes start, and sample emergency procedures syllabus language.

Important Contact Information

Before Classes Start

1. Determine what emergency information you will include in your class syllabus, such as evacuation routes, assembly location (see below), or resource lists. Suggested text is included at the bottom of this page.
2. Save CPSO’s number into your mobile phone so it is readily available in an emergency
3. Sign up for PSUAlert and/or confirm your existing registered number via Banweb (Employees) and myPSU (students)
4. Be personally prepared for an emergency at home or on campus
   1. Get Informed: Review the PSU Emergency ProceduresGuide
   2. Make a Plan: With your class, department, friends and family, discuss how to prepare and respond to emergencies where you live, learn, work and play. Don’t forget to practice the plan!
   3. Build a Kit: Work on a personal and department emergency supply kit
5. Consider classroom evacuation.
   1. Visit your classrooms to check the building evacuation maps (posted in most hallways) for routes and building assembly areas.
   2. Know at least two evacuation routes from each of your classrooms
   3. Pick a specific assembly area, near the building’s designated area, for each class
6. Print hard copies of the class rosters and keep them with your class materials so that you will know if all students are present after an evacuation
7. Understand what to do and who to call should there be a medical emergency in your classroom

On the First Day of Each Term:

1. Share campus (PSU Emergency Procedures Guide) and regional emergency preparedness resources (City of Portland, Multnomah County, State of Oregon) 
2. Review #5 above with your students:
   1. Describe at least two evacuation routes from each of your classrooms
   2. Tell your students the specific assembly area, near the building’s designated area, that you have chosen for this class
   3. Point out the emergency procedures poster (if in a general pool classroom)
3. Practice your evacuation routes by entering and exiting the building using the different routes you identified.

Sample Syllabus Language

In Case of Emergency Call...

Evacuation Information

1. If we need to evacuate the building during class, two possible evacuation routes include:  _______________________________
2. If we need to evacuate the building during class, our designated assembly point is: _______________________________
3. Be sure your cell phone is set up to receive PSU Alerts text messages: 1) Log into myPSU. 2) Select My Account. 3) Fill in or update your information.

Emergency Preparedness Suggested Resources

• PSU Emergency Procedures Guide – The Emergency Procedures Guide provides critical information about how to protect your personal safety, as well the safety of others, in emergency situations.
• Take Action Toward Personal Preparedness - Visit PSU Emergency Management’s Website to learn how to get informed, make a plan, build a kit.
• CPSO Awareness and Prevention Resources – Protect Yourself and Protect Your Property. Learn more about crime prevention tips and resources.
• PSU Alert - Receive timely, emergency messages on a cell, office or home phone as well as a personal email.  Update your PSU Alert account.
• Regional Preparedness Resources - City of Portland, Multnomah County, State of Oregon