Southern Illinois University

SIU uses multiple systems of emergency communication to distribute news and instructions during an emergency, including:

Before an emergency, please make yourself aware of all of the distribution methods (listed below).

During an emergency, this page will contain information, instructions and contacts regarding the situation.

SIU Carbondale is employing the LiveSafe app to facilitate two-way communication between the SIU Police Department and faculty, staff, students and the larger community.

For urgent communications that require immediate action to protect health and safety, SIU will still use Rave to send text messages and email. LiveSafe will be an additional means of communication. Through the app, users can contact police about emergencies and non-emergencies, report suspicious activity, learn about ways to stay safe and request a Safe Walk escort between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. LiveSafe will also be used to provide information during campus emergencies after the immediate threat to safety has passed.LiveSafe is available for free on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

The Rave Mobile Safety alert system is used to send emergency text messages to cellphones and to campus email addresses of students, faculty and staff. The message may alert you to an emergency situation, including university closures, asking you to take action or both. The system provides some weather warnings, including severe thunderstorm, tornado, flash flood and winter storm. Because the messages are short, you may need to go to another source of university emergency information for more details.

A selected network of locations and personnel on campus is set up to receive SIU Alerts from the Department of Public Safety and in turn, notify the occupants of their building of the emergency. These messages are communicated through a radio notification system that can reach the Southern Illinois Airport and Touch of Nature. More than 200 scanners were provided to campus personnel for the network.

You can listen to the SIU emergency broadcasts on 453.800 MHz.