Female students need to be extra cautious of any requests for pictures and personal information.
Find out where the emergency phones and campus police stations are.
Give all of your contact information such as cell number, home number, roommate’s cell number, and address to your parents, guardians, and close friends.
Never walk alone at night. Are emergency phones readily available, campus escort services supplied, and are the shuttle services secure and timely?
Take time to carefully evaluate off-campus student housing, apartment complexes, and fraternity houses if you plan to live off campus.
Additional Campus Safety Tips:
Campus Safety Tips For Incoming Freshman
So many students worry that if they go to off-campus housing then there will be issues on whether or not they will get the financial help that they need from their student loans to cover the cost of housing. I want all of you curious students out there to know that you are totally fine with using student loans to pay off off-campus housing and here is how.So much of this has to do with what type of student loan you have and often a student loan will specify your circumstances on which you can use a student loan for.