Holy Cross Earns National Campus Safety Award

The College of the Holy Cross was recently awarded the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award. This award honors campuses that have demonstrated leadership in improving college and university campus safety. It is awarded in memory of Jeanne Clery who was murdered on the campus of Lehigh University in 1986.

Holy Cross was chosen for the award based on its uncompromising implementation of a zero tolerance policy on underage drinking. The College was chosen from among colleges and universities nationwide.

According to Jeffrey Wilcox, director of public safety at Holy Cross, some of the criteria that factored into the College's recognition include, "Holy Cross' high statistics for disciplining alcohol violations" and "the success of the College Advisory Board on Alcohol's (CABA) underage drinking policies, such as the football tailgate policy."

Established in 1994, the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award is given by Security On Campus, Inc. (SOC), the only national, nonprofit organization geared specifically and exclusively to the prevention of college and university campus violence and other crimes. Founded by Howard and Connie Clery, the parents of Jeanne Clery, SOC is also dedicated to assisting campus crime victims in the enforcement of their legal rights.