All buildings are secured each evening at a designated time. The outside entrances to each of the five residence halls are locked via an electronic lock system at all times. Only the students who live in each hall are given coded access cards to that building. These cards are part of a security system which uses cards that cannot be duplicated. An electronic alarm system is also in place in each hall, and is activated when any of the emergency exits are opened or when entrance doors are propped open.

There are eight outdoor emergency phones located on campus. These phones enable students, staff and visitors to call security or the local police should the need arise.

Each residence hall is served by a professional live-in Hall Director (HD) or Student Assistant Hall Director (AHD). There is also a Resident Assistant (RA) living on each floor or wing. One HD/AHD is on duty every evening, along with an RA in each building.

Students are hired to provide residence hall security in Mickelsen/Blair and Holling Hall. These students are stationed in the building lobbies and monitor access and assist students and visitors as necessary. Hall security personnel have cellular phones and are on duty from 11 p.m. until 2 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11:00 p.m. until 3 a.m. Friday and Saturday.

Student rooms are equipped with security viewing devices, providing room occupants the opportunity to know who is seeking to enter a room without having to open the door.

Escort services are available twenty-four hours per day to those requesting it. Anyone wishing to be escorted from one area of the campus to another can call the security cellular phone 533-3343. Campus lighting is evaluated and improved regularly, and vegetation is trimmed on a routine basis.

Efforts are made to encourage students and employees to think about ways in which they can assume some responsibility for their own security and the security of others. Crime prevention presentations, new students’ orientation, pamphlets, brochures and posters are all made available to students and employees.

Crime alerts and reports are given to the campus community when incidents occur that are considered to pose a threat to the general student and/or employee population. The campus newspaper, electronic mail, and radio station are the principal methods of communication. When conditions warrant, information is also disseminated through flyers, bulletin board announcements or personal notifications.