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App Description

Campus Sentinel provides students and parents with campus crime statistics, safety resources, and security news and information for more than 4,400 universities and colleges throughout the United States. The app provides the ability to compare institutions by self-reported crime stats across years and locations.

Parents and students can access a number of important resources on topics that include travel abroad safety; mental health needs; questions to explore on campus visits; off-campus housing; gender and sexual violence; crime prevention; protecting your online reputation, and more.

KEY FEATURES
* View and compare crime data for more than 4,400 colleges and universities in the United States
* Access timely and important resources on campus safety and security
* Get breaking news in university and college safety and security; sign up for campus specific news and information
* Information on dozens of not-for-profit organizations specializing in campus safety and security.

The raw crime statistics displayed through Campus Sentinel come from the US Department of Education, and are collected in accordance with the federal law known as the Clery Act. The app's methodology for displaying the information provides depth, dimension and ease of understanding to the data. In this way, Campus Sentinel aids parents and students with understanding the safety of a particular campus in relation to its self-reported crime statistics, and in comparison with other campuses.

Crime statistics, in and of themselves, should not be the sole criteria in assessing campus safety and security. See the About Section in the app for more information.

NOTE: Access to the resources in the Resources Desk requires an active Internet connection. The data displayed is the most recent 3 years available from the US Department of Education. See the FAQ in the app for more information.

** April 20, 2012 UPDATE **
In app purchase for adding specific schools to BREAKING NEWS feature is pending approval through Apple. Next updates will include greater granularity for reported crime data from branch campuses.

** May 4, 2012 ANNOUNCEMENT **
Campus Sentinel named one of top 10 best apps for safety on campus by BestCollegesOnline.com.

** May18, 2012 UPDATE **
• Added crime information for branch campuses
• Added a print function
• Activated the in-app purchase function to add unlimited number of specific campuses to the Breaking News feed for same low price
• Corrected display of raw data for weapons violations
• Updated images for viewing on devices with hi-res retina displays
• Added IACLEA to the SERVICES SECTION, and highlighted IACLEA accredited agencies in the university/college list.

** June 1, 2012 UPDATE **
• Updated Facebook and Twitter feeds
• minor display fixes

*** August 27, 2012 ***
• Added national crime data trends
• Updated app icon
• minor display and programming fixes

*** March 1, 2013 ***
• Updated crime data to include 2011 (most recently available year from the US Department of Education)
• Optimized for iPhone 5
• minor display and programming fixes

*** October 2013 ***
iOS 7 compatible

App Changes

• June 09, 2014 Initial release
• September 19, 2014 New version 1.0.13