By Leischen Stelter, Security Director News
New regulations scheduled to take effect this summer will require institutions of higher learning to change the way they develop and publish their emergency plans as well as how they report incidents.
New amendments to the Jeanne Clery Act, which were enacted into law in 2008 in the wake of [...]

By Lindsey Reiser, ABC News
Guns on campus: not everyone wants it, but in Arizona it might just become a reality.
Most universities do not allow students or faculty with concealed carry permits to bring a weapon to school, but a bill is currently moving through the state senate that would allow faculty to do just [...]

By Adam Curtis, The Sierra Vista Herald
As the debate heats up on whether to allow guns on university and community college campuses, some students and faculty members at University of Arizona South shared their thoughts Wednesday.
Associated Students of the University of Arizona South have not researched or discussed the issue enough to take [...]

By Jamon Smith, Tuscaloosa News
The muddled chatter coming from the small radio strapped to a Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy’s hip ceased for a moment as a message — clear and precise — replaced it.
‘Shots fired! Shots fired!’ a voice on the radio repeated.
The deputy, wearing a bullet-proof vest under his shirt and a hard, [...]

By Monte Whaley, Sky-Hi Daily News
Nearly every college and university in the state bars students from having weapons on campus.
But at Colorado’s three largest institutions of higher learning, there are large caches of student-owned weaponry that would be the envy of many police departments.
“We have quite a variety on hand,” said Wendy Rich-Goldschmidt, police chief [...]

By Robert McCartney, The Washington Post
When the U.S. history class in Room 312 heard the two gunshots in the room directly above it, followed shortly by a student shouting at the door to call 911 because “there’s a shooter,” professor Bill Rhatican knew what steps to take. He had the class lock the door, turn [...]

By Carole Bass, Yale Alumni Magazine
First came an alert to campus and local media: a 24-year-old graduate student was missing, and Yale police wanted help in finding her.
On the morning of Tuesday, September 8, a security camera captured Annie Le ‘13PhD entering a laboratory building at the School of Medicine — but none of the [...]

By Michael Lawton, DW-World.de
A panel of experts has released a report on the March shooting spree in the south-western German town of Winnenden, making more than 80 recommendations on how to prevent a similar incident in the future.
Included among the recommendations are increasing psychological support services in schools, installing alarm systems and renovating classroom [...]

By Kerianne Okie, The Tufts Daily
First-year students attending Tufts may find the number of security alerts and tests already issued this year by the Department of Public Safety a bit shocking; but for upperclassmen, it is almost commonplace to receive e-mails about attacks and muggings near campus. Security alerts issued to students have seen an [...]