Focus Area: Campus Safety and Security
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Campus Safety and Security is an issue with particularly high visibility in the U.S. due to recent tragic shootings at well-known universities (Virginia Tech 2007; Northern Illinois 2008). When a campus-based tragedy occurs, academic continuity often becomes an issue which is easy to overlook but important. For example, after the Virginia Tech shootings, students were given the option of going home with the grade they'd earned to that point in the semester or staying and finishing out the academic year, and the building where the shootings occurred was closed for several months before administrators eventually decided to reopen it. Both issues illustrate some of the many ways in which academic continuity can become an issue in crisis situations involving breaches of campus safety and security. |
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NIU Cole Hall Renovation Plan Decided
Daily Herald (suburban Chicago) newspaper article about decision to spend $7.7 million to renovate the building in which the Northern Illin
Federal Report on Virginia Tech Tragedy -- June 2007
Link to US Government DHHS web site which contains a report to the President on iss
Culture of Preparedness: Louisiana Board of Regents Newsletter
Submitted by jsener on Thu, 2008-04-03 18:34.Here are three installments of a series published in one of the local Louisiana Board of Regents newsletters in 2006, which speak to the importance of faculty/staff understanding how a "culture
Higher Education Consortia magazine feature issue on Emergency Preparedness
Submitted by jsener on Thu, 2008-04-03 15:03.Higher Education Consortia magazine has just recently published an issue focused on Emergency Preparedness (Spring 2008) which features several articles of interest on the topic:
National Campus Safety and Security Project Launched
Submitted by jsener on Mon, 2008-02-25 16:46.February 19, 2008: A major initiative to address all threats faced by colleges and universities and to strengthen their safety and security was launched this month by NACUBO in partnership with seve