<p>[Is</a> Your College Student Safe at School?: Special Report | Education | Reader’s Digest](<a href=“http://www.rd.com/family/parenting/parenting-and-education/is-your-college-student-safe-at-school/article.html]Is”>http://www.rd.com/family/parenting/parenting-and-education/is-your-college-student-safe-at-school/article.html)</p>
<p>Also look at the PDF reports on page 1 of this article.</p>
<p>I just saw this in my hard copy last night… interesting information, but I wondered how they compiled their data. I’ll have to go back and look at it again more thoroughly.</p>
<p>The listed schools participated in a survey. Many schools declined to participate in the survey.</p>
<p>There are many more links on line with the article that might not be in the hard copy.</p>
<p>Always important + interesting info. This topic has come up a lot lately, so I apologize if I’m giving the same warning I’ve given before…</p>
<p>Take all of this with salt, and, wherever the info is relevant, be sure to seek a better idea of context. Some of this data is unintentionally misleading, some schools are much better at reporting (and responding to) incidences, some low-crime schools may nonetheless lack effective security resources/policies…numbers don’t tell the whole story.</p>
<p>Just to give an example, here’s a Pomona College article written last year, which refers to a similar article by Forbes (never published) and gives some context for the report’s raw numbers, which were also used in RD’s Campus Crime ranking:
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<p>[Pomona</a>, Dangerous? College Rallies Against Designation - The Student Life](<a href=“The Student Life - Claremont Colleges News”>The Student Life - Claremont Colleges News)</p>
<p>Of course, I don’t think the raw numbers should be ignored. Absolutely not. Just further explored.</p>
<p>ETA: The Claremont Colleges declined participation in this survey…my assumption (and that’s all it is!) is that the Forbes almost-incident may have been a contributing factor…</p>