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Personally, I hope it ends up being smooth sailing, but I think we'll have some rough seas at first.

The four-year campus carry, which begins later this year, has been given way too much "administrative time" to take place, giving the universities plenty of opportunity to skirt the intent of the law.

I understand why it was done the way it was, but as with the delayed implementation of open carry, the hype, hand-wringing, and anticipation leads to much "blow-back."

On the other hand, I truly think that it will be a bigger (per capita) issue on junior college campuses just because they have a larger number of "non-traditional" students as a percentage of the student body, and thus a larger pool of potentially licensed individuals to draw from. As such, they will receive significantly more feedback from the student body, a student body that is in many cases better able to vote their preferences with their educational dollars (Don't forget that even students are customers and are purchasing a service).

So, provided that the four-year institutions' attempts to skirt the intent of the law are squashed (it's looking good for this) then the two-year implementation in 2017 may be close to a non-issue.

But based on some of the antics we're seeing from the notable four-year schools, it may not be "cleaned up" before the two-year school implementation happens, and in that case, it may take a legislative session or two to get things the way they're supposed to be.

That said, by 2020, I think we'll be looking back and saying "remember when..." while happily carrying our concealed handguns to class, better able to protect ourselves on the walk back to our cars after our night classes.