Safety Resources

Public Safety

The Public Safety Department is comprised of fully-certified police officers, investigators, dispatchers, and emergency training specialists to maintain a secure, civil, and effective environment for our community to learn and grow.

Emergency Contact Numbers

Add these numbers to your contact list to cover most emergencies; includes nearby medical centers, poison control, personal crisis hotlines and more.

̨��swag Alerts

Add your contact details to receive alerts about potential causes for campus closures like natural disasters, structural damages, or suspicious activity.

LiveSafe App

Download the app for enhanced safety features: easily send photos or video to campus safety personnel, share your GPS location with friends and family, and chat confidentially with an operator.

Emergency Action Plan

Familiarize yourself with the university's extensive protocols in case of natural disasters, industrial accidents, medical emergencies and more.

Emergency Preparedness

Offers several training workshops centered around being prepared. Look to improve your own effectiveness with CPR, AED, RAD, CRASE, OOR, EAP or one of our other programs today!

Emergency Call Boxes

What are emergency call boxes?
Call boxes provide two-way communication between the caller and the ̨��swag Police Communications Center where a trained police dispatcher answers your call.

Emergency call boxes can be used to report:

Any type of emergency situation
Suspicious activity
To ask for a courtesy escort
Any other public safety-related inquiry

Where are they located?
They are commonly positioned in parking areas and around student housing buildings. You are encouraged to become familiar with the call box locations on your campus.

Student Health Services

Currently attending students have access to basic health care at free or minimal costs. Our on-campus clinics can administer free simple first aid, sutures/stitches, flu shots, flu/strep/mono screening, antibiotics, wart treatment, urinalysis and more.

Services and Pricing

Learn about our on-campus health services and their general prices offered to students.

Women’s and Men’s Health Clinic

As most students are leaving their childhood nests, it's important to adopt a serious consideration of their personal well-being. These clinics help educate, monitor, and maintain students' healthy lifestyles.

Student Health Insurance Policy

International students, graduate assistants, and those in the DPT program are **required** to have a ["*hard waiver*"] health insurance plan. All other students can opt to purchase ["domestic voluntary"] health plans.

After-Hours Help

Our Student Health Services are not open 24-hours a day, nor equipped or staffed for every type of emergency. Here is a list of nearby urgent care and emergency room facilities that will be.

Confidentiality

Learn about your HIPPA rights and patient responsibilities while receiving care from student health service clinics.

Dean of Students

Difficult times are made easier with help. The Dean of Students was established so that someone would always be available to listen to individual students and connect them with the resources specifically designed to assist them with their type of hardship.

Stepped Care Model

Every person is at a different part of the path to emotional mastery. The Stepped Care Model outlines the entire journey so that you can find where you are and where to go next on your own path to emotional well-being.

Care & Outreach

Some events in life are sudden and can seemingly derail a student's original plans. Care & Outreach exists to help students balance these challenges with university life in order to guide them back on track.

Behavioral Intervention Team

B.I.T. is a cross-departmental, early prevention task force focused on mitigating disruptive or troubling behavior found in members of the university community before it grows too severe.

Office of Student Integrity

Information on the Student Code of Conduct, with links for community members to report policy violations and resources for students going through the conduct process.

Student Counseling

Textbooks can teach a lot, but they can't hold all the lessons of life. Whenever you feel you need a tutor for those tests outside of school: give a counselor a call to receive the dynamic human insights a textbook can't convey.

Live Well

At ̨��swag, well-being encompasses eight dimensions including career, environmental, financial, intellectual, mental, physical, social, and spiritual well-being.

Talk to Someone

There will always be someone here for you to talk to. Whether it's about a personal crisis, overcoming addiction, or recovering from abuse, here are people wanting to talk to you.

Self Help Library

Empower yourself with the tools to recognize the pillars of a problem and the strategies to convert them into stepping stones out of it.

Groups & Workshops

There's strength in numbers and warmth in fellowship. Group workshops are designed to bring those in similar situations together so they can support and be supported by one another.

Sexual Misconduct and Title IX

The Title IX Office exists to ensure that no one is: excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity on the basis of sex. If you witness any sexual discrimination or sexual misconduct within the university setting, the Title IX Office wants to know.

Title IX

Phone numbers and websites of organizations formed to protect and support victims and survivors of domestic and/or sexual abuse.

Survivor Brochure (PDF)

A printable pocket brochure to keep on hand or to pass to another needing guidance through the hardships of sexual misconduct.

Survivor's Brochure en Español (PDF)

A **Spanish** version of the printable pocket brochure to keep on hand or to pass to another needing guidance through the hardships of sexual misconduct.

Reporting Walkthrough

Be informed about the reporting process for sexual misconduct. Why is it important to act early? Where do you report? How is each step handled?

Gruver and Clery Acts

The Clery and Gruver Acts aim to reassure students and ensure colleges and universities maintain safe environments devoted to the tenets of intellectual progress and civil development.

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Public Safety

Emergency Contact Numbers

̨��swag Alerts

LiveSafe App

Emergency Action Plan

Emergency Preparedness

Emergency Call Boxes

Student Health Services

Services and Pricing

Women’s and Men’s Health Clinic

Student Health Insurance Policy

After-Hours Help

Confidentiality

Dean of Students

Stepped Care Model

Care & Outreach

Behavioral Intervention Team

Office of Student Integrity

Student Counseling

Live Well

Talk to Someone

Self Help Library

Groups & Workshops

Sexual Misconduct and Title IX

Title IX

Survivor Brochure (PDF)

Survivor's Brochure en Español (PDF)

Reporting Walkthrough

Gruver and Clery Acts

Clery Act Resources

Max Gruver Act

Survivor Brochure

Survivor's Brochure en Español (PDF)

Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs

Substance Basics

Harm Reduction Strategies

Stepped Care Model