The Office of Campus Police & Emergency Management is responsible for several areas of safety and security across campus. This office oversees the areas of police services, campus and event safety, parking, emergency management, and Clery compliance.
All faculty, staff, and students are required to have a valid IWU parking permit to park on campus. Register for your parking permit on the MyIWU Portal and pick up your permit in the Campus Police Office located in the Barnes Student Center, room 148.
Parking
Indiana Wesleyan University Campus Police is committed to the parking needs of students, faculty, staff and visitors in supporting the mission of the University. We work to make the experience of parking and driving on campus as easy as possible. IWU parking rules are in effect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and fair and consistent enforcement is done regularly throughout campus and at various times in order to provide adequate parking.
All students, faculty, and staff are required to have a permit affixed to their vehicle while parked on IWU Campus. There is no cost for Faculty and Staff permits and they will not expire. Student permits are $50 for an academic year and are available for pick up starting August 1. Student permits are valid for one year beginning on August 1st and expiring at the end of the Summer Session II. Permits are to be properly displayed at all times on the inside of the front windshield, passenger side, lower (bottom) corner. The entire permit must be visible from the outside.
Parking Permit fees and parking citation fines are payable at Student Account Services. Permit fees and fines are automatically billed to your account, you do not have to pay for your permit prior to picking it up, but you do have to register online.
JUST VISITING?
Remember: if you are a student, faculty, or staff you are never a visitor. Visitors to campus should obtain a visitor's permit from the Campus Police office during normal business hours. Visitor passes are free and allow the visitor to park in the respective visitor parking lots.
Are you a student who has a friend or family member visiting?
Those who are visiting for the weekend do not need a parking pass but are required to park in one of the visitor parking lots. Parking lots 24, 25, 27, and 28 are visitor parking lots and do not require permits for visitors.
Clery Act Compliance
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act) is a federal mandate requiring all institutions of higher education that participate in the federal student financial aid program to disclose certain timely and annual information about campus crime, and security and safety policies. In addition, as required by the Higher Education Opportunity Act, IWU publishes a Fire Safety Report and provides Missing Student information for those locations where IWU maintains on-campus student housing facilities. The Fire Safety Report contains information about the University’s fire prevention practices and systems, as well as fire-related statistics. The Clery Act affects virtually all public and private IHEs and is enforced by the U.S. Department of Education (ED). Campuses that fail to comply with the act can be penalized with large fines and may be suspended from participating in the federal financial aid program.
CAMPUS SECURITY AUTHORITIES
WHAT IS A CAMPUS SECURITY AUTHORITY
The Clery Act identifies certain categories of students, University employees and contractors as Campus Security Authorities (CSAs) who have federally mandated responsibilities to report Clery Act crimes that are reported to them. The intent of including non‐law enforcement personnel in the role of CSA is to acknowledge that some community members and students in particular may be hesitant about reporting crime to the police, but may be more inclined to report incidents to other campus‐affiliated individuals.
How ARE CSA's IDENTIFIED?
The law defines the following four categories of CSAs:
- A campus police department or a campus security department of an institution.
- Any individual or individuals who have responsibility for campus security but who do not constitute a campus police department or a campus security department (e.g., an individual who is responsible for monitoring the entrance into institutional property).
- Any individual or organization specified in an institution’s statement of campus security policy as an individual or organization to which students and employees should report criminal offenses.
- An official of an institution who has significant responsibility for student and campus activities. To determine which individuals are CSAs, consider job functions that involve relationships with students.
CONFIDENTIALITY
When a person comes to report, make sure they know of your obligation to report. There are only three locations on campus that can provide confidential services. A student may report confidentially to the IWU Health Center, Counseling staff at CSS, and Andrea Summers, Campus Pastor. All other employees are required to report all Clery incidents for Clery statistics and all VAWA (sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, stalking) incidents. When a person comes to you to report an incident, you cannot guarantee confidentiality.
Consider a statement like:
“I want to make sure you understand that I may be required to share anything you tell me, including your name, with the Title IX Office. We don't have to involve law enforcement unless you choose to, but the University may have to follow up on this situation. The only people on campus who can guarantee confidentiality are the IWU Health Center, Counseling staff at CSS, and Andrea Summers, Campus Pastor.”
Campus Communications and Notifications
IWU provides information to students and employees about campus security procedures and encourages them to be responsible for their own security and the security of others. In order to accomplish this goal, students and employees are kept informed about crime prevention strategies through a variety of non-emergency communications channels. Information on reported crimes that pose serious or continuing threats to the campus community is disseminated through timely warnings and emergency notifications using the RAVE Mobile Alert System via text message, email and social media. All IWU students and employees are automatically enrolled in the alert system with a confirmed IWU email address and cell phone number.
More information about Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications can be found here.
IWU ALERTS
IWU Alert (RAVE Mobile Safety) is the wireless emergency notification system for the Indiana Wesleyan University community. All faculty, staff and students are automatically enrolled in IWU Alerts using their @indwes.edu email address and cell phone number on file with the university. It is used by IWU to instantly provide mass notification to mobile devices and through email when an urgent situation such as severe weather or another emergency needs to be communicated.
You can log in to your RAVE account by clicking here, or visiting https://www.getrave.com/login/indwes.
The login information for your RAVE account is your IWU email address. The password is not the same your IWU credentials, unless you have set it to match. If you do not remember your password you can reset it.
CSA's and Making a Report
CSAs are in positions that have relationships to students such that they are more apt to receive reports from students who were a crime victim or witness. Therefore, it is necessary to provide CSAs with the proper tools and training to assist them if they are made aware of information about crimes or asked for assistance by a victim. Additionally, this is a federal obligation required under the Clery Act.
Under the Clery Act, a crime is considered "reported" when it is brought to the attention of a CSA or reported directly to law enforcement by a victim, a witness, other third party or even the offender. It doesn’t matter whether or not the crime, are associated with the institution. If a CSA receives the crime information and believes it was provided in good faith, he or she should document it as a crime report. In “good faith” means there is a reasonable basis for believing that the information is not simply rumor or hearsay. That is, there is little or no reason to doubt the validity of the information. If you believe you received a "good faith" report of an incident, please document and report it immediately following the link below ro directly to IWU Campus Police.
HOW TO MAKE A REPORT
Submitting this report will not generate a police report. This report is used to report student conduct violations and criminal incidents for statistical purposes only. Please remember to include as much detail as possible within the form including the date, location, description of the incident, crime classification and all other fields that you have information.
Our institution has a responsibility to notify the campus community about crimes that pose a serious or ongoing threat to the community, and, as such, campus security authorities are obligated by law to report these specific crimes. Even if you are not sure whether an ongoing threat exists, immediately contact us so we are able to make that determination.
If you have any questions email Campus Police at campuspolice@indwes.edu.