Sense of community at core of a safe campus

Sean Van Koughnett, McMaster’s Associate Vice-President of Students and Learning and Dean of Students has been featured in this year’s Canadian University Report.

Van Koughnett talks about McMaster’s “communal sensibility” and how it strives to create an atmosphere in which students know where to go for help and support.

“This may sound somewhat clichéd, but if you’re trying to build a community where students don’t feel isolated or marginalized, if they feel they can go to people and talk to them, or if they’ve got connections with people, then they are going to be safer generally speaking,” he told the Globe and Mail’s Guy Dixon in an article titled “How to make campuses safer.”

The full article is available here.