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Awareness Programs

Skidmore College informs incoming students about bias-related crime and prevention measures through programs that include workshops, seminars, discussion groups, and ori-entation sessions. The purpose of these programs is to disseminate information about bias-related crime, promote discussion, encourage reporting of incidents of such crime, and facilitate prevention.

• The Dean of Student Affairs sends correspondence and emails to the community throughout the semester discussing issues relating to bias incidents

• The Residential Life Staff is trained to recognize bias in residence halls and student interactions

• The Bias Response Group meets regularly to review incidents of reported bias and issues statements and outcomes to the community

• Reported incidents are followed up with e-mails and hall and floor meetings to review the issues

• The Every Day Leadership Program includes training on responding to and reporting bias incidents

Procedures for Preparing the Campus Safety and Security Report

Campus Safety compiles the annual statistics for crimes that are included in this report. The information included is acquired from various sources, including Campus Safety, local police agencies, and all officials of the College who have significant responsibility for stu-dent and campus activities. These officials include Residential Life staff, Student Affairs staff, faculty advisors, and athletic team coaches. In addition, Skidmore accepts confidential reporting of crimes and encourages mental-health and pastoral counselors to report statis-tics regarding these violations of law. These statistics contain crimes for the calendar year in which they are reported.

The following statistics represent all official reports of these crimes on the Skidmore cam-pus and are reported in compliance with the “Clery Act.” They conform to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting System.

(Crime and sex offense definitions are listed below.)