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🚨 Fire Drills Scheduled: Get Ready to Practice Safety at Central Piedmont! 🚨

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picture behind Weiss building showing open sidewalkTo ensure fire safety and stay compliant with fire codes, Central Piedmont’s Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) team will be running fire drills on various campuses. Here’s what you need to know to stay prepared! 👇

đź“… Schedule of Fire Drills

  • Fri., Nov. 15
    • Cato Campus
    • Harper Campus
    • Levine Campus
  • Mon., Nov. 18
    • WTVI
  • Thur., Nov. 21
    • Merancas Campus

đź”” What to Expect

  • Alarms & Lights: Fire alarms will sound, and strobe lights will flash.
  • Evacuation Commands: Both building captains and Central Piedmont security will provide voice commands to evacuate.
  • Rally Points: Head to the nearest rally point sign once you’re outside the building.

đź•’ Key Details

  • Duration: Each drill should last around 10-15 minutes.
  • Cooperation Needed: Your full participation is crucial—help keep our campus safe!

âť— Questions?

If you have questions or need further information, reach out to the EHS team. Thanks for helping keep our community safe, even if it means a brief interruption to your day!

Safety Reminders for Campus

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Security on campus 704.330.6911.

Central Piedmont and the Risk, Safety, and Security team work to keep you safe while you’re on campus. 

Emergency Notifications
For Critical Alert messaging, Central Piedmont uses Rave, a mass notification system, to send urgent alerts to you via text, phone call, and college email if college operations are ever impacted by inclement weather, a power outage, or a campus emergency. We strongly encourage you to keep your mobile number updated in your MyCollege user profile for emergency communications.

Check and update your contact information here:

Please note you cannot opt out of Critical Alert notification emails to your Central Piedmont account because your Central Piedmont email is the college’s official channel of communication.

Safety & Security Procedures
We also want to remind you of the information available on Central Piedmont’s website about What To Do In An Emergency, for situations including an active shooter, severe weather, fire, and more. We all play a role in safety at the college, so please familiarize yourself with safety and security protocols at the college. In-person classes may begin with a “safety moment” to assign tasks needed in an emergency, such as calling college security, performing CPR/retrieving the AED machine in a medical emergency, and other steps to lead people to safety.

See Something, Say Something
Most importantly, Central Piedmont relies on its students and employees to be the eyes and ears of the college, so if you see or hear something, please say something. If you have a concern of an immediate threat, please call Central Piedmont College Security Services at 704.330.6911.

Contact College Security Services:

  • Emergency: 704.330.6911
  • Non-Emergency: 704.330.6632

Watch Out for Vehicles and Pedestrians
For your safety, when crossing streets, please use designated crosswalks, and use crosswalk buttons to activate available flashing lights. When driving around our campuses, watch out for pedestrians and people riding bikes and scooters. Also, be sure to use the college’s parking lots and parking decks for student drop-offs and pick-ups. Please do not park on or block city streets.

How do we reach you in a campus emergency?

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Safety Moment poster of actions to take in emergencies: call 6911, use the AED, meet emergency personnel and evacuateCampus safety is the top priority of Central Piedmont’s Risk, Safety and Security teams, and we want you to have a safe and successful fall semester. In case of an emergency, it’s important that we are able to alert you, and we also want you to know how to contact us if you see something happening on campus. 

Emergency Notifications
For Critical Alert messaging, Central Piedmont uses a mass notification system to send urgent alerts to you via text, phone call, and college email if college operations are ever impacted by inclement weather, a power outage, or a campus emergency. We strongly encourage you to keep your mobile number updated in your MyCollege user profile for emergency communications.
Check and update your contact information here:

Please note you cannot opt out of Critical Alert notification emails to your Central Piedmont account because your Central Piedmont email is the college’s official channel of communication.

Safety & Security Procedures
We also want to remind you of the information available on Central Piedmont’s website about What To Do In An Emergency, for situations including an active shooter, severe weather, fire, and more. We all play a role in safety at the college, so please familiarize yourself with safety and security protocols at the college. In-person classes may begin with a “safety moment” to assign tasks needed in an emergency, such as calling college security, performing CPR/retrieving the AED machine in a medical emergency, and other steps to lead people to safety.

See Something, Say Something
Most importantly, Central Piedmont relies on its students and employees to be the eyes and ears of the college, so if you see or hear something, please say something. If you have a concern of an immediate threat, please call Central Piedmont College Security Services at 704.330.6911.

 Contact College Security Services:

  • Emergency: 704.330.6911
  • Non-Emergency: 704.330.6632
  • Recorded Message Line: 704.330.6888

Advisory: Welcome to the Spring 2022 Semester

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Two students walking on campusCentral Piedmont is excited to welcome you for spring 2022! We hope the New Year is off to a great start for you and look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in the weeks and months ahead. Our top priority is to maintain the academic integrity we have always prided ourselves on and to keep our students, faculty, and staff safe while doing so.  

As we return back to campus, there are a few things to keep in mind:

  • Face coverings are required during instructional activities (during classes, labs, etc.); in face-to-face meetings, and whenever persons are moving through or gathering in indoor common areas, such as hallways, lobbies, stairways, elevators, our libraries, restrooms, etc. 
  • Face masks and gloves remain available at building entrances to anyone who needs them. Face coverings are not required outdoors on campus or inside while eating.
  • Please stay home if you feel ill in any way. If your symptoms persist, please see a healthcare provider. Please inform your instructors if you experience an illness that impacts your class attendance. 
  • If you think you might have come in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID, or if you test positive, please send an email immediately to wecare@cpcc.edu. The email inbox is now being monitored on a daily basis by Novant Health medical professionals who are responding directly to all inquiries.
  • If you need to come to campus for a class, advising, or any other reason, be sure to complete the online Health Acknowledgement Form on Monday every week you arrive on any campus.


Are vaccinations being mandated?

If you have not yet been vaccinated against COVID-19, we strongly encourage you to do so, if you are so inclined, at your earliest opportunity.

Due to the policy of our affiliated clinics, all health program students and faculty will have to be vaccinated for this upcoming semester, unless they have received a medical or religious exemption. This includes dental hygiene students. If you are a health program student, and have any further questions or concerns, please reach out to Charlene James (charlene.james@cpcc.edu).

No other academic programs are requiring vaccination at this time. The college will not ask you to provide your vaccination status, nor should anyone connected to the college inquire about your status.

How should students and employees report positive COVID tests?

To report COVID cases and exposures, or to ask questions about our protocols, please email wecare@cpcc.edu. Students should also notify their instructors, and employees should make their supervisors aware as soon as possible.

What will be the isolation/quarantine protocols for vaccinated and unvaccinated students and employees?

We will follow CDC protocols to determine isolation/quarantine recommendations for students and employees based on vaccination status. These will be communicated directly to persons who test positive for COVID-19 and have been in contact with positive-test persons.

By working together – wearing face coverings, practicing social distancing when possible, washing our hands frequently, staying home if we feel ill, and keeping our campus spaces clean – we can help keep each other safe.
All support services – including counseling, advising, financial aid assistance, career planning, basic needs services – are available in-person and virtually. Visit the Current Students page for contact information. Don’t hesitate to call or email the department you need to let us know how we can help.
We wish you a safe, productive, and happy semester!

If you see something, say something

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Welcome to the fall semester! Campus safety is the top priority of Central Piedmont’s College Security and Emergency Management teams. We take this opportunity to remind you of the information available on Central Piedmont’s website about What To Do In An Emergency, for situations including an active shooter, severe weather, fire, and more.

We all play a role in safety at the college and that’s why we ask you to review the college’s Safety and Security video by the end of this week to familiarize yourself with safety and security protocols at the college.

Most importantly, Central Piedmont relies on its students and employees to be the eyes and ears of the college, so if you see or hear something, please say something. If you have a concern of an immediate threat, please call Central Piedmont College Security Services at 704.330.6911.

 If you know of behavior that is concerning or disruptive to the college community, please use the online form at this site to report a concern for referral to the Care Team.

 Here are multiple ways to contact College Security if you have additional concerns.

Contact College Security Services:

  • Emergency: 704.330.6911
  • Non-Emergency: 704.330.6632
  • Text-2-Tip
    • 67283
    • Start your message with “CPCCTIP”
  • Recorded Message Line: 704.330.6888

 Have a safe semester! We look forward to serving you in the weeks to come.