What was considered

Last summer K-State's Security Review Committee looked at the following processes and compared them with 12 peer institutions.

1. Kansas State University Annual Security Report (Cleary Report) Campus security statistics both K-State's and their peers the last three years.

2. Educational benchmarking student safety satisfaction survey. This survey gathers feedback from our residence hall students and then benchmarks K-State against the other 256 institutions that administer the same survey

3. Hall access - both hardware and staffing practices

4. Student room door access

5. In room security measures

6. Small item thefts - computers, Ipods, cameras, etc., registration by campus police, similar to bike registration

6. Security cameras

7. Educational programs and material for students and their families

8. Outside lighting


Here are the recommendations that were approved last summer by the security committee.

From what I can tell, the security committee did not recommend security cameras for the residence halls. They have changed hall access significantly.

Here is one school that decided to install security cameras at their dorm entrances and their reasons for doing so. In fact, type in security cameras and residence halls in a Google search and you will see how widely they are employed. K-State should take this opportunity - significant change to its security systems - to install security cameras at the entrances and main lobby of the dorms. This is not only for the safety of the residents by also the community assistants that work the desk and who will be asked to regulate hall access.