Campus Safety

Stay Safe Eagles.

Security and safety concerns on the campus are addressed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Stay safe Eagles.

Avila University encourages accurate and prompt reporting of all crimes to Campus Safety Officers, professional staff members or local law enforcement. The University can assist victims in reporting crimes if they are unable to make the reports themselves.

The Annual Security Report, in compliance with the ‘Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act’, is linked below, and will provide you with the full PDF document.  This Report contains information on campus security and personal safety, including crime prevention, university law enforcement authority, crime reporting policies, disciplinary procedures, and other important matters about security on campus.  It also contains statistics for the three previous calendar years on reported crimes that occurred on or adjacent to campus.

Campus Safety is responsible for:

• Deterring crime on campus
• Distributing parking permits and student IDs
• Issuing parking tickets
• Locking and unlocking buildings
• Issuing keys
• Crowd control and parking control at events on University property
• Monitoring the alarm system
• Maintaining the “safe walk” program to walk individuals to and from their vehicles when requested.
• First, responding to student assistance needs.
• Assisting the University with crime reporting, theft, or vandalism
• Helping provide a safe and secure environment for students and employees to learn, work, and grow.

COVID-19 Preparedness

Are you staying up to date with the latest news about Coronavirus Disease 2019? Visit Avila’s Healthy Eagles page for campus updates. Get all the up-to-date information from the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) website at CDC.gov.

Avila ID cards & Parking Permits

Bystander Intervention

As an individual, we are often hesitant to intervene, but as a community, we need to help each other and step in for our dear neighbor.

As a bystander, we will see things occurring that we know are violations of policy or behaviors that are inappropriate and one or more of the individuals involved may regret later.  Go with your gut instinct; if you see something inappropriate, say something.

Students, faculty, and staff can intervene in potentially harmful situations, such as sexual misconduct, using one of the three Ds:

• Delegate: Some bystanders are too wary or shy to approach a potentially violent situation directly but can diffuse a situation by locating the friends of the person who might be in danger or by contacting the Police, Safety, or an RA.
• Distract: Allow a chance to separate the individuals by distracting one of them; intercede in their conversation, tell them that somebody else is looking for them, tell them their car is being towed, etc.
• Direct: If you feel comfortable, directly approach the situation, tell them you are concerned, and offer to give that friend a ride home.

Dr. Dorothy Edwards relays a story “about a guy who saw one of his buddies taking a girl upstairs at a party. [The girl] seemed too drunk to be going upstairs, and so the guy called after his buddy and says ‘Hey, your car is getting towed.’ When the man went to check on his car, the woman’s friends intervened and took her home.”

Help us build a better community at Avila, inspire your fellow classmates to take appropriate actions, and remember that even as a bystander, you too can help build a positive environment around you by speaking up. If You See Something, Say Something!