Arkansas Tech University has earned national recognition for its efforts to promote student safety and well-being for the sixth consecutive year.
The Campus Prevention Network (CPN) Seal of Prevention is provided to select institutions that have utilized comprehensive, evidence-based digital prevention education on issues such as sexual assault, alcohol misuse, mental health and discrimination with a goal of creating a safer and more welcoming learning and working environment.
ATU and Arkansas Colleges of Health Education in Fort Smith are the only higher education institutions in Arkansas that earned the 2025 CPN Seal of Prevention. ATU also earned the distinction in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Arkansas Tech is one of just 151 universities and colleges in the nation to be a six-time CPN Seal of Prevention recipient.
“Our consistent recognition through the CPN Seal of Prevention program is representative of the culture of safety and caring that exists at Arkansas Tech,” said Amy Pennington, ATU vice president for student affairs. “Individuals across our campus have taken intentional steps to utilize education in order to create, protect and enhance that culture. As a result, Arkansas Tech is known as a friendly, welcoming and safe place to be a student, a faculty member, a staff member or a guest.”
Created and administered by Vector Solutions, the CPN Seal of Prevention establishes guidelines for discerning quality online prevention education and implementation practices. The program holds true that prevention is central to key institutional outcomes, including recruitment, student success, retention and advancement.
ATU’s student safety and well-being initiatives are included as part of its Jerry Cares program.
Created by the ATU Division of Student Affairs in fall 2014 to facilitate a safe and welcoming learning and working environment for members of the university community, Jerry Cares programming throughout the academic year and on the Jerry Cares website includes information about alcohol and drug abuse prevention, sexual violence prevention, suicide prevention and hazing prevention.
The program is named for Jerry the Bulldog, ATU campus ambassador.
Learn more about Jerry Cares at www.atu.edu/jerrycares.
