Case Study: Baylor University achieves real-time travel safety for students and faculty with Dataminr

How Baylor University Uses Real-time Information to Keep Students and Faculty Safe

Baylor University’s Department of Public Safety is responsible for keeping hundreds of students, faculty, and staff safe while traveling worldwide. To assess risk before trips and monitor emerging threats on the ground, Baylor’s Director of Global Safety and Security uses Dataminr’s real‑time breaking‑news alerts and AI-driven signal detection alongside State Department advisories and analyst reports.

Dataminr’s service delivers rapid alerts from hundreds of thousands of public data sources, giving Baylor advance notice of unfolding events so the team can approve or cancel itineraries, push safety briefings, and coordinate responses. Using Dataminr, Baylor ordered early returns for groups at the start of the COVID‑19 outbreak—ahead of wide-sweeping travel restrictions and many peer institutions—demonstrating faster situational awareness, time savings from pushed alerts, and improved protection for travelers.

Baylor University

Jared Bickenbach

Director of Global Safety and Security