College administrators are required by federal law to issue a warning when a crime threatens campus safety. Now they’ve gotten a warning of their own about what can happen if they don’t comply.

In July the board of regents of Eastern Michigan University took disciplinary action against four officials for failing to properly alert the campus after a student was raped and murdered in her dorm room last winter. The board fired EMU’s president, accepted the “separations” of its vice president and security chief, and reprimanded its general counsel.

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