This supplemental section provides information and resources related to safety. Click on each topic listed below to expand the content box for more details.
Campus Safety Services (CSS) is dedicated to ensuring the safety, security, and peace of the SCU community. It is the duty of CSS to be the first respondors to medical, fire, and other emergencies.
Working 24/7 throughout the year, CSS aims to achieve a zero-crime environment through proactive patrolling, community-wide crime prevention programs, and an effective partnership with local law enforcement and emergency services agencies.
Two campus phones numbers that all students, parents, and other family members should have in their phone directories are the following Campus Safety Services numbers:
- Non-emergency: 408-554-4441
- Emergency: 408-554-4444
Emergency planning strives towards creating a campus culture of resilience and preparedness. By providing training and awareness to our campus community, we will work together to achieve a state of readiness to overcome emergencies and other distruptions.
Overall Goals:
- Evolve and adapt current practices to keep with industry standards.
- Build a working culture of resiliency and readiness across the University.
- Partner with key stakeholders to build a foundation of expertise for response and recovery.
- Ensure that known hazards are mitigated as best as possible prior to an emergency occurring.
- Ensure plans and assets are in place to effectively respond to emergencies on campus.
- Ensure timely response to emergencies impacting the health and safety of the campus community.
- Ensure effective and efficient recovery after an emergency.
SCU Bronco Alert is a vital tool that all students and families should be connected to. This alert system utilizes phone calls, text messages, emails, digital signage, and amplified voice systems to notify the SCU campus community when timely warnings and emergency notifications about certain situations need to be shared.
Note: Parents may sign up for SMS text message alerts only by texting SCUPARENTALERT to 226787 (CAMPUS).
The Office of Equal Opportunity and Title IX helps investigate and resolve complaints of discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment, and sexual violence -- including sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence sexual exploitation, and staking. This team can also advise and refer parties to supportive measures no matter the investigative route the party chooses to take.
Click here to learn more about the Office of Equal Opportunity & Title IX.
The Wellness Center at SCU has an extensive Violence Prevention Program to educate the campus community about sexual assult, domestic and dating violence, consent, stalking, and hazing.
The Violence Prevention Program also empowers the student body to be proactive bystanders to protect one another and to be a resource for those who are survivors of sexual assault.
Click here to learn more about the Violence Prevention Program.