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Analyzing data from the Office of Postsecondary Education Campus Safety and Security, researchers at FindTheBest recently compiled a list of thetop 25 most dangerous colleges, determining the four ...
President Joe Biden on Thursday urged that "order must prevail" as pro-Palestinian protests rock college campuses across the country, emphasizing that violent protest is not protected under the ...
2015 Umpqua Community College shooting: 26-year-old student Christopher Harper-Mercer opened fire in a hall on the Umpqua Community College campus, killing eight students and one teacher, and injuring eight others. Mercer then committed suicide after engaging responding police officers in a brief gunfight.
College campuses are having to step up safety protocols as murder rates soar nationwide. How the rise in violent crime is affecting college campuses Skip to main content
In the 2004–05 school year, 87% of college campuses had sworn officers with the power to arrest, and 90% of these departments were armed. [3]Some secondary public school districts maintain their own police, such as the Los Angeles School Police Department, the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Police Department and the New York City Police Department School Safety Division.
The peer norms on American college campuses are to drink heavily, to act in an uninhibited manner and to engage in casual sex. [69] However, a study on the reports of women in college shows that their substance use is not a risk factor for forced sexual assault, but is a risk factor for sexual assault while the victim is incapacitated. [46]
According to a new report from SafeWise, Louisiana has two of the top 10 most dangerous college towns in the country: Alexandria and Monroe.
On June 13, 1970, as a consequence of the killings of protesting students at Kent State and Jackson State, President Nixon established the President's Commission on Campus Unrest, known as the Scranton Commission, which he charged to study the dissent, disorder, and violence breaking out on college and university campuses across the nation.