2007 Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award Recipients

Dr. Robert L. Carothers, East Carolina University, Maryville University, & George Mason University

Dr. Robert L. Carothers

We acknowledge the leadership of Dr. Robert L. Carothers, the president of the University of Rhode Island, in demonstrating how taking proper action can improve the campus culture and reduce alcohol and other drug abuse by students.  Dr. Carothers has been a vocal advocate for college and other drug prevention efforts, not only on his own campus but also in the state of Rhode Island and on a national level.

We appreciate Dr. Carothers for leading the way by taking extraordinary measures to ensure the safety of his campus community.  For this we thank him!

“On behalf of everyone at the University of Rhode Island who has worked so hard to make our community safer for our students, I am honored and humbled by this award.  It’s been a long road back from being named the number one party school in the nation to being designated as a college with a conscience.

Particularly in the area of drug and alcohol abuse, this work is never over.  Each year brings a new crop of students shaped—for good or for ill—by family and community culture, by peer pressure and common mythology about college life.  They are also bombarded by well-financed media campaigns, which seek to link fun and sex to alcohol.  And as we all know so painfully, the abuse of alcohol by young men and women and the consequences for that abuse are the highest cause of injury and death in that age group.

I enjoy talking to other presidents and senior administrators at other schools, to reassure them that taking tough stands on these issues will come back to them in better students, higher retention rates, and increased giving from donors who respect doing the right thing.”

-Dr. Robert L. Carothers 
University of Rhode Island

East Carolina University, Maryville University, & George Mason University

We appreciate the generosity of East Carolina University, Maryville University, and George Mason University in hosting Jeanne Clery Act Compliance Training Seminars, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime (OVC).  By offering their university facilities to host this important training seminar, they helped this government grant to be a success, ensuring that not only their own campuses but over 180 colleges and universities would also be trained

We want to acknowledge Suzanne Molhan from the Office of the Victim Advocate at East Carolina University, Mike Parkinson, the director of public safety at Maryville University, and Detective John Bacigalupi at George Mason University for their hard work in helping SOC with these regional seminars.  We appreciate these three universities taking these extraordinary measures to ensure the safety of their campus communities as well as countless others.  We thank them all!