University presidents, regents and other senior campus officials are increasingly receiving personal security details as threats and violent incidents around contentious campus protests escalate. Several high‑profile leaders report targeted harassment, vandalism at private residences and direct threats that agencies and campus police are treating as criminal matters. Institutions say the measures are necessary to protect families and maintain operations, but security details raise governance tradeoffs: leaders’ visibility and accessibility—a long‑held tenet of academic leadership—are harder to preserve when safety concerns demand tighter protections.