Scanning the Future of Campus Security

University Business shares this interview by Michele Herrman with five campus leaders in campus security and law enforcement, from the University of South Carolina, The University of Maine, Butler Community College, College of Saint Benedict, and George Washington University. It's clear that the issues they address and plan for touch - like many other areas of planning that are best done in an integrated fashion - all parts of the campus and its surrounding community. Their most significant future concerns include: funding need, the increasing numbers of student with mental health issues, and the growing increase in the level of campus-based service expectations by incoming students.

Private Colleges' Crime Records Going Public?

This brief article is published along with a 2-minute audio stream of the reporter discussing "whether college campus police should be held to the same public access requirements as other police forces. . . . For their part, private universities say they are not public agencies and must act to protect the privacy of students and staff. But critics argue that public relations play at least as big a role. 'For PR purposes, colleges want to perpetuate the impression that their campuses are crime-free enclaves . . . . Honestly, no one believes that. Everyone believes that a campus with 20,000 or 30,000 young people on it is going to have some crime. It's not even an effective charade.'"