Crime and the fear of crime are severe problems on college campuses. The perception of campus safety has changed, especially after several large-scale attacks have killed and injured numerous students, such as the Virginia Tech and Grambling University shootings. Improving the current perception of a safe campus is crucial for colleges. The purpose of crime prevention programs in colleges is to help students avoid becoming victims of crime. Currently, the emphasis is not on preventing the crime from occurring, it is only on ensuring an individual is not a victim of crime. Students may learn how to stay safe on campus, but we should be changing the campus environment to reduce crime. Many approaches have been introduced to reduce and prevent crime. One approach is based on reducing criminal opportunity by changing aspects of the environment so that crimes, such as theft, violence, vandalism, and arson as well as the fear of crime can be reduced. Through the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) model, crime prevention has been successful within communities, businesses, and primary schools in reducing crime. In this convergent mixed-methods case study, we explore whether implementing aspects of CPTED can improve perceptions in the college setting. We test the hypothesis that the fewer aspects of CPTED identified within a specific location on a college campus, the more stakeholders perceive that area to be unsafe. This test is accomplished by integrating the quantitative findings from several physical CPTED Safety and Security Assessments with qualitative stakeholders' perspectives and using heatmapping software to explore if the reasons for the perceptions of unsafe areas can be rectified by implementing aspects of CPTED in those areas. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]