Graduate and Professional Students at Yale Demand Greater Campus Security
“These concerns became especially urgent in December 2025 following the fatal shooting at our peer Ivy League institution, Brown University, just 90 minutes north of Yale”
What happened to defunding the police? College students assured me that the police are dangerous.
Yale Daily News reports:
Graduate, professional students say they want better campus security
Yale’s graduate and professional students are expressing concerns about campus safety, in light of the deadly mass shooting at Brown University in December.
The Graduate and Professional Student Senate, or GPSS, this month produced a 26-page report based on a survey of Yale graduate and professional students’ experiences with campus security. The report reflects widespread feelings of unsafety among graduate and professional students and concerns about a lack of measures tailored to their needs.
“The survey grew out of longstanding, informal concerns I had been hearing from graduate and professional students about safety, communication, and emergency preparedness — particularly from those who teach, work late hours, or live off campus,” Zoe Murray SPH ’26, the advocacy co-chair of GPSS, who conducted the survey, wrote in an email to the News.
“These concerns became especially urgent in December 2025 following the fatal shooting at our peer Ivy League institution, Brown University, just 90 minutes north of Yale,” she added.
The report is based on an anonymous survey conducted by the Advocacy Committee of the GPSS, collecting 649 responses from all 14 of the graduate and professional schools between Jan. 5 and 19. The responses include 324 from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the largest contributor, followed by 75 from the School of Public Health, while the School of Art and Jackson School of Global Affairs have only five and one respondents, respectively.
According to the report, nearly half of off-campus respondents said they feel unsafe walking home at night, and about one-third expressed concern about the effectiveness of Yale’s emergency communication system.
Around 72 percent of graduate students with teaching responsibilities said they feel unprepared to respond to classroom emergencies, and an equal share of respondents disagreed with the statement that Yale’s firearm policies are clearly communicated. More than 75 percent of respondents supported implementing emergency response training, role-specific training for graduate students who teach and communicating departmental emergency response protocols at the start of each semester.
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I thought Ivy Leaguers didn’t like the police so much. I would say let them stew in a pot of their own making.
Yale should hire a bunch of social workers to provide the security that the students demand. That is in keeping with their values.
“Around 72 percent of graduate students with teaching responsibilities said they feel unprepared to respond to classroom emergencies”
Call a social worker, Sheldon.
“and an equal share of respondents disagreed with the statement that Yale’s firearm policies are clearly communicated.”
Because people who bring firearms onto campus to shoot people do it because they don’t understand there’s a strict policy against it.
I clearly remember the look of sadness on that young millenial woman’s face when I asked who she was going to call if she had a problem. I was fine, I can take care of myself, but who is “she” going to call. That defund the police sign in her hands was suddenly not making as much sense. There isn’t much strategic thinking in the Minnion class.
They can’t make up their dang minds on law enforcement. It’s so ridiculous.
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