Here’s a website with several Department of Education resources to help higher ed institutions prepare for natural disasters, guns on campus, and other emergencies.
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3/21/2013
Binge and other high-risk drinking at Ohio University has dropped 15 percent over the past six years, said officials who hope this will help the Athens campus shed its image as one of the nation's top party schools.
3/15/2013
Jackson Community College isn’t required to do drills designed to protect its students and employees from campus threats, but that’s not stopping college officials from doing them. That includes instituting a critical incident team that incorporates everyone from safety personnel to college employees to JCC President Dan Phelan, Allen said. The team will cover policies and procedures for everything from active shooters on campus to bomb threats to chemical spills in labs and power outages, she said.
3/14/2013
The House Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety is meeting Thursday to consider several bills allowing concealed handgun license holders to carry their guns into campus buildings where they are currently banned.
2/26/2013
In Connecticut, not far from the national horror that occurred in Newtown, we view the issue of gun control through a different lens.
2/25/2013
Arkansas lawmakers have given final approval to a bill that would allow college campuses to decide whether to allow faculty and staff to carry concealed handguns.
2/25/2013
The response by officials at Oklahoma State University to a series of sexual assault reports on campus was “misguided,” according to a report from OSU's governing board.
2/25/2013
Several buildings were evacuated at Northwestern State University and classes were canceled Monday after a high school housed on the campus received a bomb threat.
2/11/2013
Petition to be presented to legislators
2/11/2013
Residents shaken by a tornado that mangled homes in Mississippi were waking up Monday to a day of removing trees, patching roofs and giving thanks for their survival
1/29/2013
The mystery of who was behind last year’s strange case of information leaks at Lindenwood University may have been solved.
1/27/2013
Rutgers-Newark and the New Jersey Institute of Technology are moving classes and evacuating buildings due to a widening power outage that is expected to last most of the day, campus officials said.
1/24/2013
A Southern Methodist University student reported she was sexually assaulted early Monday morning by a student acquaintance in a campus dorm room, according to SMU police.
1/24/2013
Officials at North Carolina's flagship public university Thursday disputed claims the school underreported sexual assaults in 2010 to keep from looking bad.
1/23/2013
Charges aren't expected to be filed against a 25-year-old man who was involved in an argument that escalated into gunfire at a Houston-area community college, officials said Wednesday.
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