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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ANSI Approves Risk Analysis Standard for Higher Ed Hazards
Submitted by jsener on Wed, 2010-07-14 09:54.The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved A Risk Analysis Standard for Natural and Man-Made Hazards to Higher Education Institutions.
Weekly Log from ACHA Pandemic Influenza Surveillance
Submitted by Janet Moore on Thu, 2009-09-03 15:41.The link to the weekly report is here: http://www.acha.org/ILI_LatestWeek.cfm "more than half of the 165 colleges and universities respondin
Most Colleges Avoid Risk Management, Report Says
Submitted by jsener on Wed, 2009-07-08 11:39.Few colleges (<25%) regularly assess how to prevent or respond to threats, and only 1/2 them plan for such risks only after receiving an audit, experiencing a campus crime, or seeing the fallout
Interview with Kathleen Henning: EM & Higher Ed.
Submitted by jsener on Thu, 2009-07-02 15:01.Kathleen Henning is an emergency management consultant with almost 30 years of government service
Interview with Mike Abbiatti: Issues & Advancing the Field
Submitted by jsener on Thu, 2009-04-23 10:45.Michael Abbiatti is the Executive Director for the Arkansas Resear
