Award Recipient For 2006

The "Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award" was established in 1994 by Howard & Connie Clery to honor schools and individuals that have done extraordinary things to make college and university students safer.

Montclair State University

MSU Police Chief Paul Cell, Rodger Desai CEO Rave Wireless, Connie Clery, MSU President Susan Cole, Catherine Bath of SOC, and MSU Vice President Karen Pennington at the Clery Award Presentation.

Connie Clery, Co-Founder of Security On Campus, Inc., presented Montclair State University with the 2006 Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award during a ceremony at the school in September. "Montclair State is the first educational institution in the country to pilot an exciting new mobile phone technology that turns students’ cell phones into a personal alarm device connecting them to a caring, sworn police force," said Clery, regarding why Montclair State was selected for recognition.

She also cited the university for "funding a full-time coordinator of the Center for Non-Violence and Prevention Programs: Students Against Violence, and forming the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), which is modeled after New Jersey State standards and provides services to victims of sexual assaults." The Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), which was the first university based program of its kind in New Jersey and one of a handful on campuses in the nation, is a team comprised of trained sexual assault nurse examiners, University police officers and trained rape care advocates organized to assist the victims of sexual assault.

The mobile guardian application was developed by Rave Wireless, a leading provider of GPS-based mobile phone applications, and perfected at Montclair State through a series of pilot programs. Students subscribe to Rave Guardian through Campus Connect, a package of applications that Rave Wireless customized specifically for the University and introduced to students in 2005.

The "Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award", established in 1994, is presented each year by Howard & Connie Clery to honor schools and individuals that have done extraordinary things to make college and university students safer. It is named in memory of the Clerys' daughter, Jeanne, who was murdered on campus in 1986.