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Campus Security and Emergencies: A Guide to Resources and Research

This web portal is intended to provide resources, research material and current information on campus security and emergency management at institutions of higher education. The content is designed to be useful to campus administrators, campus emergency officials, researchers, students, faculty and parents.

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Research and Lessons Learned

Click here to see abstracts of research articles on campus security and emergency management issues, as well as papers on lesson learned from past incidents on campuses nationwide.

Announcements

Please click here to find a listing of future conferences, workshops and seminars related to varying aspects of campus security and emergency management.

News
  • Two suspicious fires cause power outages at Texas Southern University. Read the article from the Houston Chronicle.
  • In a disaster such as an earthquake or terrorist attack, nearly two-thirds of U.S. parents would disregard orders to evacuate and would rush to pick up their kids from school, according to a survey released Thursday. The survey by the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Children's Health Fund found that 63 percent of parents would ignore disaster plans and pick up their children, possibly hindering rescue efforts by adding to traffic congestion. The authors of the study, released on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, said that despite years of government efforts to enhance disaster preparedness, schools need to do more to plan for disasters and parents need to be made aware of the plans. . ">Read the survey