The Ripple Effect of Virginia Tech: Assessing the Nationwide Impact on Campus Safety and Security Policy and Practice

Writing in Inside Higher Ed, Doug Lederman, notes that a recent study on on the whole, campuses discussed major changes in admissions and other areas, but mostly just beefed up emegrency notification systems:

"It's interesting what they talked about and didn’t do,” said Gina Johnson, a researcher at the Midwestern compact who co-wrote the report with Chris Rasmussen, director of policy research there. Despite significant pressure from many sources (legislators, parents, etc.) to react aggressively to the Virginia Tech crisis, in many cases campuses “didn’t go to extremes” in response.

The preliminary report about which Lederman is writing is available here: The Ripple Effect of Virginia Tech: Assessing the Nationwide Impact on Campus Safety and Security Policy and Practice (PDF).

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