The campaign, initiated by research showing the forging of new friendship groups was a chief concern among university applicants, builds on Lincoln's reputation as a safe, friendly university with a close community feel on campus.
There's the opportunity to create lifelong personal and professional contacts, develop interests in a safe environment, and leave university with a CV that will resonate with potential employers.
These men were explicitly charged with making the university a safe space and instead used their power and influence to enable someone suspected of crimes and hide them from the public.
"Silent Sam has a place in our history and on our campus where its history can be taught, but not at the front door of a safe, welcoming, proudly public research university," Carol Folt, the university's chancellor, said in a statement Friday.
But just because you are paying tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars for your child's education does not mean the university is a safe place.
A university offers a safe place and the expertise of a conservation department that sorts an archive and enters it on a computer database.
If not in the university, then where do you debate the most difficult questions? So, I disagree very profoundly with the idea that there's such a thing as a safe space intellectually at a university.
No wonder the Student Room forum is full of worries such as "How mature are people at uni?" and "Is lad culture a problem or just a laugh?" Students eager to escape the taunts of secondary school look to university as a safe haven, only to find that bullying has acquired a respectable gentlemanly veneer.
He is passionate about mentorship, building a safe and diverse community on university campuses, and supporting underrepresented minorities and women in science.
It also notes that Chinese students in particular would interpret "urban" to mean the university is in a safe area.
