Student "Right-To-Know"

The University at Albany has nearly 17,000 undergraduate and graduate students, with approximately 4,000 faculty and staff. There are 115 buildings and 12 miles of public roadways within the campus boundaries.

Our 400-acre uptown campus is situated on the western edge of the City of Albany; the smaller downtown campus, with classrooms and residence halls, is situated in the middle of the city; the East Campus is in the town of East Greenbush. The data from all campuses are included in this report.

The University Police Department (UPD) works closely with students, faculty and staff across the campus to achieve the highest levels of personal safety possible. UPD is staffed around the clock, 365 days a year, with 35 professional law enforcement officers and 30 security officers. These officers routinely visit residence halls and offices to discuss safety. One campus effort, dubbed "Park, Walk and Talk," gets police out of their patrol cars to walk where students see them.

The University at Albany provides an extensive array of campus security programs and procedures which are described on the following pages. Our continuing effort to improve safety has led us to implement several initiatives - including creation of the Committee on University & Community Relations, an uptown campus bicycle patrol, a Ride Along Program, regular foot and bicycle patrols on the academic podium and an uptown campus shuttle, beginning in the late afternoon and continuing until midnight. We also meet regularly with local police, government officials, neighborhood association and community leaders, and landlords, seeking ways to make on-campus and off-campus living safer for our students.

While we have developed procedures and policies to ensure that students and their possessions are protected as much as possible, it is primarily the responsibility of the student, faculty or staff member to provide for his or her own safety and security by taking simple, common sense precautions, and by reporting information to the University Police or other campus authorities, including the Office of the Vice President for Student Success, the Department of Residential Life and the Office of Personal Safety and Office Campus Affairs.

Emergency calls to report a crime on campus can be made by calling 911 from campus phones or (518) 442-3131 from any other phone, including cellular phones. Incidents of a less serious nature can be reported to the Office of the Vice President for Student Success, the Residential Life staff or UPD. There are more than 225 Emergency and Blue Light Phones located throughout the campus which ring directly to UPD. Crimes also can be reported personally at the UPD office, 24 hours a day. The University Police Building is located at the east side of campus, just off University Drive East at the east end of Indian Parking Lot.

After a call comes in, police or other University personnel, fire and/or ambulance service, will be dispatched as appropriate to the location of the call. Criminal offenses are pursued by UPD. UPD communicates routinely with other law enforcement agencies in the area.

All campus crime and incident reports are posted promptly on the University's website and are distributed to the student newspaper and other offices across campus. In cases where a reported crime appears to threaten the safety of the campus community, the University takes additional steps, such as leaflets delivered to every student room, email notifications and television notices, to notify the campus community of what has occurred and the steps that are being taken.

UPD provides 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year mobile and foot patrol protection to all University campus properties as well as nearby facilities rented or leased by the University.

UAlbany Right-to-Know

Alcohol Use Policy
[Judicial Affairs]

Building Security

Campus Security Programs and Procedures

Clery Report

Community Notifications

Crime & Incident Statistics

Hate Crimes & the Law

Missing Students

Residence Hall Security

Sexual Harassment, Rape & Sexual Assault

Standards of Conduct
[Judicial Affairs]

Violent Felony Offenses