For Immediate Release
July 18, 2002
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For Immediate Release |
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Security On Campus, Inc. Honors California State University For Efforts To Combat Binge Drinking, Report Campus Crime Accurately
Pictured L to R: CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed, CSU Police Administrator Kim Wible, John Welty, president, CSU-Fresno, Judy Sakaki, VP for Student Affairs, CSU -Fresno, Colleen Bentley-Adler, Director of Public Affairs, CSU office of the Chancellor, Lynne Hellmer, CSU systemwide professional development. |
The Clery Award recognizes individuals and institutions who have taken extraordinary actions to make students safe. It is given annually by SOC in honor of co-founders Connie and Howard Clery’s daughter Jeanne who was murdered on a Pennsylvania university campus in 1986. The federal campus crime reporting law, the Jeanne Clery Act, is also named in her memory.
“Security On Campus, Inc. recognizes the brave efforts of the California State University in addressing head-on the alcohol problems prevalent on not only their campuses, but also campuses across the nation,” said Howard and Connie Clery, in explaining why CSU was selected for the award.
“Secondly, CSU took it upon themselves to produce a training video on how to comply with the Clery Act. CSU turned it into an opportunity to benefit not only their own system, but also colleges nationwide. And they did it in such a professional and thorough way. We congratulate them for being the very first college system in the nation to address the difficult problem of compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act so that all colleges can benefit -and students can be safe.”
Also honored with the Clery Award this year was the One in Four Walk Across America for their efforts to publicize campus sexual assaults.
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