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The Director should thus be immediately notified of any disaster in accordance with the University’s Disaster Management and Response Network.
Negative issues include crimes against students, faculty, or employees; suicides; student demonstrations; inappropriate conduct by faculty, employees or students; academic freedom issues; fiscal irregularities; and employees issues.
Both the stakeholders’ legitimate right to know the essential facts and privacy concerns – especially those related to individual rights, personal security, and legal liability – must be determined and considered before any public statements are made.
It is, however, inevitable that incidents, particularly those that involve students or employees, will attract a great deal of interest from stakeholders and the media.
To ensure that appropriate messages are communicated, and that individual rights and the institution’s reputation are protected, it is very important that all messages and information are prepared and dispatched by the Disaster Communication Team working under the leadership of the Director: Communications and Marketing Division – who is UNIZULU’s official spokesperson.
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