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Mission

Supporting Vancouver Island University's Academic Plan, Facilities Services is a service oriented department focusing on the operational needs of the campus community, while maintaining buildings and grounds in a cost effective, safe, secure and sustainable manner.

Vision

Our vision is to be an empowered and motivated team providing our clients with unparalleled service aligned with our core values.

Core Values

Our core values / guideline principles are listed below.  The acronym: SPRITE.

This report form should also be used to record and investigate all incidents related to security events such as vandalism, theft, graffiti, etc. Completed investigation reports will be kept for a minimum of 7 years.

VIU is populated at any one time by up to 8,000+ students (Nanaimo Campus), staff, faculty and visitors. We are similar size to a small city!  Each year our Nanaimo campus incidents of crime include: 

• Theft from and of vehicles
• Theft of computer equipment (laptops, etc.)
• Vandalism to university and personal property
• Criminal harassment and sexualized violence

Many of these incidents go unreported each year. This encourages criminals to continue to engage in illegal and damaging activities.

Nanaimo Campus

Security is available on the Nanaimo Campus 24/7 and can assist you should you have any issues or require a safe walk anywhere on campus (to/from student housing, bus loop or to your parked vehicle). Security can be reached by calling 6512 from any VIU internal phone or 250-740-6512 from your cell phone. 

Cowichan Campus

Security is available during the day and evenings while classes are in attendance, and on weekends.  Security can be reached by calling 6600 from any VIU internal phone or 1-250-740-6600 from your cell phone. 

First aid is offered at the Nanaimo and Duncan campuses through Campus Security.  All other locations have VIU employees trained to offer first aid.  All first aid incident reports must be sent to Health and Safety Services at Safety@viu.ca. Access the Health and Safety Incident Report form.

Current Work

These maps show the location of the accessibility wayfinding signs on the Nanaimo Campus. 

Wayfinding Signage Location (As of September 20, 2020): 
Map of all existing and confirmed wayfinding sign locations on the Nanaimo Campus. 

Campus Map (As of December 17, 2020): Nanaimo Campus Wayfinding Map.

Please note: Buildings with numbers starting from 359 have been renumbered to fall within the 400s. A full list of building number changes can be found here.

Outdoor Accessibility Issues (as of August 2019) (Excel file)