In our rapidly changing world,the possibility of crime is on the minds of parents and students alike. It is my hope that as you browse around our site you'll understand the remarkable progress that our department has made over the last twenty years in implementing protective measures for our students, faculty, and staff. Our department has been recognized by peers at other colleges and universities, and by two different national consultants, as being a model program for physical and electronic security. Our program has been featured in several national security and campus periodicals. The answer is that we, through innovation and forward thinking attempt to actually stay ahead of crime trends.
Innovative measures have many associated costs.
It is to our college administration's credit that it is willing to perceive new and additional security measures as investments in our students, rather than counting such hardware and programs as drains on resources. Our success is, of course, reflected in our lack of adverse crime statistics. We do, however, realize there is no absolute security in any environment, thus we attempt to educate our students in various methods of personal safety. The deterrent message that we project to potential local criminals is comprised of the total sum of the various individual components of our system. It is an axiom of modern life that security and convenience are opposites.