Emergency Response

The Dean of Students Office works directly with the family of the student, the student’s faculty and College to offer support. In addition to on site coordination and care, the student’s classmates, friends, and others impacted are offered support and connected with appropriate resources.

The Emergency Dean-On-Call responds to incidents requiring emergency transport and hospitalization 24 hours a day to offer support to students, share resources, and connect with family. Non-Clinical Case Managers from Campus Assistance & Resources for Empowerment (CARE) follow up with those involved to provide support after emergency incidents.

UF’s threat assessment and management team that determines if a student, faculty, staff member or visitor is a potential threat to others or to themselves and/or disruptive to the environment. In those cases, a multi-disciplinary team assesses the risk and seeks to mitigate that risk.

Each Emergency Dean takes on-call responsibility 24 hours per day for one full week at a time as the immediate response to any student related night time or weekend emergency issue. Duties include responding immediately to the hospital to be with a student until family arrives, managing support for students, and working with the Dean of Students and Associate/Assistant Deans during more serious issues.

The Dean of Students Office maintains an on-call system to assist members of the University community with emergencies. During the business day, the Dean of Students Office may be reached at (352)392-1261. After hours and on weekends, individuals are encouraged to contact the University Police (352)392-1111 to request assistance. If it is necessary for the Dean of Students Office to be contacted at that point, University Police will make appropriate arrangements.