Research and Lessons Learned

Academic Continuity and Emergency Management: Improving Higher Education’s Ability to Continue Teaching and Learning when Confronted by Disasters

 

After-Action Reports: Capturing Lessons Learned and Identifying Areas for Improvement

 

Building a Disaster-Resistant University

 

Campus Public Safety Preparedness For Catastrophic Events: Lessons Learned From Hurricanes and Explosives

International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA). June 2006, 21 pages.

Campus Violence Prevention and Response: Best Practices for Massachusetts

 

Crime in Schools and Colleges: A Study of Offenders and Arrestees Reported via National Incident-Based Reporting System Data

 

Characterizing the Limitations of Third-Party EAS Over Cellular Text Messaging Services

 

Disaster Planning 101: East Carolina University

 

Do Emergency Text Messaging Systems Put Students in More Danger?

 

The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States

 

FSU Prepares

 

Gubernatorial Task Force for University Campus Safety Report on Findings and Recommendations

 

2008 Higher Education Emergency Management Survey

The Higher Education Emergency Management Survey was developed to gather information about emergency management programs in higher education institutions and analyze the responses to determine trends and changes that may have occurred since the 2007 survey.

Leveraging our Campus IT in the Wake of the Storm

Details repairing IT equiptment after Hurricane Katrina, and opens a dialogue between universities.

Kentucky Governor's Task Force on Campus Safety Report

 

LSU in the Eye of the Storm

 

Managing Emergency Preparedness: Academic Health Centers Organize and Innovate

 

“Managing Threats: Safety Lessons Learned from School Shootings”

UrbanED, the University of Southern California School of Education magazine, published this article, by Marleen Wong, Ph.D., on school shootings in spring 2007.

Managing Threats: Safety Lessons Learned from School Shootings

 

Marist College Institute for Public Opinion

The poll illustrates public opinion pertaining to confidence in governmental agencies, attitude towards and compliance to public evacuation orders, and level of preparedness.

Mass Shootings at Virginia Tech: Report of the Review Panel

 

Prior Knowledge of Potential School-Based Violence

 

Prior Knowledge of Potential School-Based Violence: Information students learn may prevent a targeted attack.

 

Report to the President on Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy.

 

The Ripple Effect of Virginia Tech

 

School Safety in The 21st Century: Adopting to New Security Challenges Post-9/11

 

Securing Our Future: Making Colleges and Universities Safe Places to Learn and Grow

 

The Role of IT in Campus Security and Emergency Management

 

Using Social Networking in University Emergency Communications

 

U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Department of Education Release CD-Rom Based on the Safe School Initiative

 

Virginia Tech Shootings: Crisis Magnifies the Significance of Small Weaknesses

 

What We Learned From Hurricane Floyd

 

Florida universities examine on-campus safety

 

Report to the President on Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy

The President directed top officials at the Departments of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services to participate in a federal review of the broad questions raised by the shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech. HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt will lead the effort to report back to the President with recommendations about helping to avoid such tragedies. The final report was released June 13, 2007

Threat Assessment in Schools

The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Secret Service established the Safe School Initiative, a study of 37 school shootings and other school-based attacks that took place between 1974 and 1999. Through this initiative, the two agencies produced guidance and tools for schools putting forth a process for identifying, assessing and managing students who may pose a threat of targeted violence This process, known as threat assessment, was first pioneered by the U.S. Secret Service and has been modified based upon findings from this study. These guides are intended for collaborative use by school personnel, law enforcement officials and others with protective responsibilities in our nation's schools. Most recently, the initiative has produced an interactive CD-ROM presenting two hypothetical school scenarios to be used for further developing the assessments team’s skills.

Virginia Tech's internal reviews of the April 16 massacre

On May 9, 2007, Virginia Tech President Charles Steger directed three internal reviews in the wake of the April 16 tragedy on the Virginia Tech campus. He directed the chairs "to look at strengths and weaknesses of our existing systems/infrastructure and how they may be improved or augmented to address emergency situations that might arise in the future." These reviews are internal in structure and focus and not intended to be forensic in nature. Says Steger, "I asked for the creation of two different, but concurrent review processes. The external review commissioned by Governor Kaine is essentially investigatory in nature, while ours is a forward looking review of university policy, resources, and infrastructure through the prism of April 16."