Campus Safety
Emergency Notification
Overview of Campus Safety
Safe Ride and Safe Bus
Personal Safety Tips
Who Do I Call
Student Success
Clery
Act Security Report
vpss@ku.edu
The safety of our campus community is a high priority at the University of Kansas. We strive to educate students and staff about safety precautions and advise students to take a moment and consider what measures they can take to protect themselves. The University has the utmost concern for the success of each student and strives to give each student maximum freedom to live his/her life free from outside interference. With this freedom, however, comes the responsibility of becoming an active participant in the exercise of personal safety. Campus safety is a shared responsibility.
EMERGENCY NOTICATION
The University will use its home page, www.ku.edu and its KU Alert information site, www.alert.ku.edu, as the official online location for information updates. Please visit the alert information site and review its recommended procedures for a variety of potential emergency situation procedures at: www.alert.ku.edu.
Sign up for text message alerts at: www.alerts.ku.edu/signup.shtml.
If you need to contact a student due to an emergency, during normal business hours (8 am to 5 pm), contact the Office of the Vice Provost for Student Success for assistance at 785-864-4060 or www.vpss.ku.edu or vpss@ku.edu. After business hours call the KU Office of Public Safety at 785-864-5900.
OVERVIEW OF CAMPUS SAFETY
KU’s Public Safety Office maintains a 24-hour operation, employing 911 dispatchers, commissioned law enforcement personnel and noncommissioned security officers. Uniformed police officers patrol the campus on foot, on bicycles, on segways, and in marked and unmarked police cars. Its communications office monitors closed-circuit cameras in parking lots and public areas surrounding all major residence halls and buildings. There are blue emergency phones located across the campus that dial the 911 operators on campus. Most KU housing units use a card swipe for entrance into the building although the family housing complex does not. KU buses run at night as well as the Safe-Ride program.
Safe Ride and Safe Bus
SafeRide is a fare free transportation service for KU students that operates from 10:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m every evening during the academic year when classes are in session. The intent of the SafeRide program is to provide KU students with safe transportation home
SafeBus operates Fridays and Saturdays from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. while school is in session. Six accessible buses will be covering three separate routes; with two buses on each route. All rules that apply to daily KU on Wheels and Park & Ride routes also apply to SafeBus. Each bus is equipped with 6 security cameras for rider safety.
The SafeRide and Safe Bus programs are run by KU on Wheels. It is funded by the SafeRide student fee, and promotional materials are partially funded by the Kansas Drunk Driving Prevention Office, through grants from the Kansas Department of Transportation.
You will find the annual campus safety report here: www.ku.edu/safety.
Print your own what to do in an emergency card here: www.vpss.ku.edu/safety/card.jpg.
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