Alarmed by mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, colleges are working to protect their campuses with threat assessment teams, active shooter drills and partnerships with law enforcement.
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Jun 10, 2022
Alarmed by mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, colleges are working to protect their campuses with threat assessment teams, active shooter drills and partnerships with law enforcement.
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Recent Opinions
Views • November 10, 2020
The growing importance of academic research into gun violence (opinion)
Views • May 9, 2018
How colleges can help K-12 schools deal with violence (opinion)
Views • March 29, 2018
The growing movement to divest from gun manufacturers (opinion)
Views • June 12, 2017
Campus carry is about the right for individual self-defense, not preventing mass shootings (essay)
Views • November 16, 2016
A professor describes lessons learned fighting campus carry in Georgia (essay)
Archive
April 5, 2022
Amid a surge in gun violence near campus, the Temple University Police Association disputes as “factually untrue” the hiring and patrol numbers the administration has reported.
March 16, 2022
Public safety concerns are paramount for Temple University parents since a student was murdered near campus. Now some parents have hired private security firms to protect their children.
November 10, 2020
While guns continue to proliferate on college campuses, writes Matt Valentine, so should interest among scholars in researching gun violence -- an area long neglected by academics.
September 4, 2019
Three students were recently arrested at three separate colleges for potentially being a threat to the campuses. Institutions are monitoring these risks more closely in an age of increasing gun violence.
May 9, 2018
Kathleen McCartney outlines the key ways colleges can support K-12 students and help advance the movement they have started.
March 29, 2018
Rebecca Dyer highlights the growing movement to divest from gun manufacturers.
September 19, 2017
After fatal shooting of a student, experts question why Georgia Tech doesn’t arm its officers with stun guns.
June 12, 2017
Concealed carriers aren’t likely to make effective interventions, and such a focus distracts us from the best arguments for campus carry, which should be primarily about the individual right to self-defense and self-determination, argues Erik Gilbert.
June 8, 2017
Against a tide of pro-gun rulings and legislation, a state appeals court ruled 2 to 1 that the University of Michigan -- a public institution -- has the right to ban guns on campus.