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Campus Safety

Campus safety is responsible for providing a variety of crime prevention programs and services in order to foster a safe and secure environment in which to learn, live, work, and visit.
Campus Safety

Contact Information

Emergencies (all hours):
911 (by campus phone)
315-228-7911 (by cell phone)

Routine requests:
315-228-7333
E-mail: cusafety@colgate.edu
Campus Safety is at 88 Hamilton St. (gray building between Merrill House and Sigma Chi fraternity), and has officers on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Our Roles

  • Campus policy and criminal investigations
  • Facility security patrols
  • Fire safety responses, including inspecting, testing and maintaining all fire safety equipment and alarms, and conducting fire drills
  • Providing on-campus non-emergency medical transports
  • Medical emergency responses
  • Vehicle and traffic enforcement
  • Campus parking registration and enforcement
  • Assisting on-campus motorists with battery jump-starts and vehicle unlocks
  • Issuing photo-identification cards
  • Administering student drivers’ licenses exams to permit operation of university vehicles
  • Maintaining a lost and found department

Emergency System

Register for the university's Rave Mobile Safety system by signing in to the portal and clicking Colgate Alert.

Safety Statistics and Guides

Van Driver Training

Get training and approval to drive a Colgate-owned vehicle for the university.

Other Agencies

  • Hamilton Police Department: 315-824-3311; dial 911 for emergency
  • Hamilton Fire Department: 315-824-2460; dial 911 for emergency
  • SOMAC ambulance: dial 911 for emergency
  • Madison County Sheriff's Department: 315-366-2318; dial 911 for emergency