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Western Kentucky University

Counseling Concepts and Applications for Student Affairs Professionals (CNS 577)

2010

Campus violence

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Being Safe On The College Campus [Brochure And Video], Brittney Joiner-Jones, Stephanie B. Wimsatt Apr 2010

Being Safe On The College Campus [Brochure And Video], Brittney Joiner-Jones, Stephanie B. Wimsatt

Counseling Concepts and Applications for Student Affairs Professionals (CNS 577)

Parents experience many emotions when sending their students away for college. Many are excited for their child, some are sad, and a majority of these parents are worried. Parents now have to worry for a child that they are no longer in the same town as, whom they can no longer set a curfew and monitor when at home. Though people would like to believe that the university their child has chosen is safe the numbers tell a different story. According to Readers Digest (2008) of this country’s 6,000 colleges and universities there are 40,000 burglaries, 3,700 forcible sex offenses, …