The UCA Police Department is pleased to offer many safety services to the UCA community.
We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure campus environment that is conducive to learning. We believe a well-informed community is essential to achieving our goals. To that end, we have implemented numerous measures to ensure the safety of the UCA community and to provide timely warnings in case of an emergency.
| IN CASE OF EMERGENCY |
| Dial 9–1–1 from any phone. Calls from campus landline phones and cellular phones will be answered by the Conway Emergency Operations Center dispatchers. If you are on campus, ask immediately to be transferred to the UCA Police Department. The dispatcher will transfer your call directly to the UCA PD CommCenter.
UCAAlert System – If you are a registered student, faculty, or staff member of UCA, your telephone and email information is automatically entered into the UCAAlert System. You will be able to receive text messages to your phone and emails to your UCA email account. Guest/Parents/Contractor subscription for UCAAlert text notifications – If you are not a student, faculty, or staff member of UCA but you want to receive UCAAlert text messages, text the corresponding word to 59713 selecting the number of days you would like to be active in our system: BEARS-365 This will provide you with 365 days of text-based alerts from the date you enroll. BEARS-180 This will provide you with 180 days of text-based alerts from the date you enroll. BEARS-30 This will provide you with 30 days of text-based alerts from the date you enroll. BEARS-10 This will provide you with 10 days of text-based alerts from the date you enroll. BEARS-3 This will provide you with 3 days of text-based alerts from the date you enroll. Other areas for emergency information include: UCAPD Website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts and UCA Website, myUCA, UCA Facebook and Twitter account |
How We Communicate During an Emergency