Tip 1:
Interested in helping improve campus safety? Students can become safety volunteers, receive special training, and assist residence life staff in fire safety procedures.

Tip 2:
Upon request, Pitt police community relations officers will conduct apartment security surveys and Crime Watch programs. For more information, call 412-624-4040.

Living at Pitt

Residence life, housing, property management, and Pitt police work cooperatively to provide resident students with a safe and secure environment. It is important that students and staff work together to enhance the quality of life and safety in the residence halls.

To accommodate undergraduate students during the academic year, the University of Pittsburgh maintains approximately 6,800 residential beds in 13 residence halls, eight fraternities, and 11 apartment-style buildings. Types of accommodations include singles, doubles, triples, quads, suites, and apartments.

University police officers are responsible for security within all resident living areas on their respective beats, and they patrol on foot inside all residence halls, fraternities, and apartment-style buildings on campus.

Did You Know?

Ten resident directors (RDs), assistant hall directors (AHDs), and more than 100 resident assistants (RAs) staff the living areas of the residence halls. RDs supervise the RAs.
RDs, AHDs, and RAs undergo comprehensive training before and during each school year. This training includes how to handle various emergencies—psychological and medical, fire evacuation, disorderly conduct, vandalism, etc.
Residence life staff members are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in the residence halls. RDs also maintain scheduled office hours during the day and in the evening. RAs and RDs are on duty every evening, including weekends and holidays, during all three terms and/or sessions to assist students in any manner. RD and RA schedules are posted throughout the residence halls.
Panther Central, located in the main towers lobby, 412-648-1100, is available 24 hours a day to assist you in contacting the residence life staff. RAs also provide security assistance within the building by touring their areas during the week and on weekends.

UNIVERSITY EMERGENCY
PHONE NUMBERS

University of Pittsburgh Police EMERGENCIES 4-2121
or Noncampus Phone
412-624-2121
General Assistance 4-4040
or 412-624-4040

Sexual Assault Services
412-648-7930

Student Health Service
412-383-1800

University Counseling Center
412-648-7930

Assistant Dean of Students
412-648-7910

Environmental Health and Safety
412-624-9505

SafeRider
412-648-CALL (2255)

PITTSBURGH EMERGENCY
PHONE NUMBERS (OFF CAMPUS)

City of Pittsburgh Police,
Fire, Ambulance 911

Pittsburgh Action Against Rape
24-hour hotline 1-866-363-7273

Center for Victims of
Violence and Crime
24-hour hotline 412-392-8582