Back to school campus safety
Bluephone on downtown campus.
With its location in the heart of San Antonio’s dense urban environment, concerns about safety are regularly shared with the Downtown Campus Task Force.
CollegeStats.org, a nonprofit higher education evaluation service that provides statistics to help students make informed college choices, has ranked UTSA the leader in Texas and No. 20 in the nation for having the best campus safety resources. The ranking measured the availability and accessibility of safety resources, emergency procedures, drug and alcohol policies, and crime statistics at the nation's largest universities.
Make sure you're aware of the safety and security measures in place to help keep our faculty, staff, students and visitors safe.
- Anyone on campus can call 210-458-4242 (UTSA non-emergency number) to request a safety escort between campus buildings or to and from your car.
- There are eight outdoor emergency telephones(blue light phones) located around the campus. By pressing the “Emergency Call” button, the caller is connected to the UTSA Police dispatcher.
- Check out these Personal Safety Tips (downloadable pdf)
- Safety update: The new Frio Street crosswalk is now operational ! The crosswalk offers pedestrian-activated flashing lights to stop traffic for individuals crossing between the Monterey Building and the Frio Street Building. Learn more about the city’s ongoing improvements to Frio St.
Emergency: 210-458-4911 (or dial ext. 4911 from a university phone)
Non-emergency: 210-458-4242
Examples of non-emergencies:
- Request a safety escort or vehicle assistance
- Access a building or office
- Report suspicious behavior or activity
- Report lost property items
COMING SOON:
- Join LiveSafe@UTSA! UTSA will be the first UT System school to introduce the LiveSafe app, a mobile two-way safety communications platform and risk management tool used by 150 universities across the country. It will allow our university community members to receive real-time alerts, respond to safety check-ins in the event of a campus emergency, report suspicious activity, report various types of incidents, and access many resources and features, including the company’s most popular feature: SafeWalk -- which allows users to virtually walk family, friends and colleagues home or to another location by monitoring their location on a real-time map. Want to be among the first to try out the app? Download it here . Look for more information in the months ahead.
- UTSA Police Department will scale up their staff on campus in the evenings Monday – Thursday.
- The UTSA Police Community Affairs division has a slate of programs scheduled at the Downtown Campus this fall, including tabling, holding safety and crime prevention presentations, and hosting special events such as National Night Out.
For more information, visit UTSA Police Department online, email UTSAPolice@utsa.edu , or call 210-458-4242.
