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Ryan Braun – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite significant cultural attention on the phenomenon of school shootings, one of the most predictive dimensions of these tragedies is under-analyzed: gender. Men commit 98% of mass shootings, but robust discussion and research on this relationship is lacking. This dissertation investigates the relationship between masculinity and gun violence…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Weapons, Violence, Higher Education
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS), 2022
Our nation's postsecondary institutions are entrusted to provide a safe and healthy learning environment for the students, faculty, and staff who live, work, and study on campus. Planning for emergencies may be challenging for institutions of higher education (IHEs) because of geography, environment, governance, around-the clock-operations, and…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Security, Emergency Programs, Violence
Douglas Kellner – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
Douglas Kellner's "Re-Visioning Education: Cultural Studies, Critical Media and Digital Literacies, and Democracy" provides a comprehensive account of his critical theory of education that combines his work in philosophy of education, cultural studies, and media and digital literacies aimed at a critical theory of education and radical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democratic Values, Educational Change, Inclusion
Kelley Jean Montz – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The goal of this qualitative case study was to determine what institutional processes and practices have been developed in relationship to mass shootings and gun violence, as well as how mass shootings in educational settings impact the way a campus responds and prepares a safety plan. Through speaking with threat assessment team members, student…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, Best Practices, Police School Relationship
Haoyi Wei – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation adds to the economic study of gun and marijuana laws. Chapter 1 studies the impact of stand your ground laws (SYGs) on traffic fatalities. Chapter 2 investigates the effects of campus concealed carry laws (CCCs) on higher education outcomes. Chapter 3 looks at the impact of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) on youth crimes. The first…
Descriptors: Marijuana, Weapons, Laws, Traffic Safety
Shannon Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The shooting on Virginia Tech's campus that left 32 dead in 2007 and other incidents since then resulted in active threat preparations at institutions of higher education (IHEs) in the United States. Little is known about how emergency managers understand campus preparedness and what enhanced learning in the implementation, training, and…
Descriptors: School Violence, Universities, Emergency Programs, School Safety
Fisher, Bonnie S., Ed.; Sloan, John J., III, Ed. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2022
This new edition of "Campus Crime" shares with readers the advancements that have been made in understanding campus crime. Across the three sections of the book, chapters review changes while also addressing current -- and even future -- crime and security issues confronting institutions of higher education. Some of these chapters…
Descriptors: Crime, Higher Education, Victims of Crime, Sexual Abuse
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Perna, Laura W., Ed. – Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 2023
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Theories, Educational Research, Educational Policy
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de Brey, Cristobal; Snyder, Thomas D.; Zhang, Anlan; Dillow, Sally A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2021
The 2019 edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 55th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The purpose of the "Digest" is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. It contains data on a variety of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Federal Aid, Educational Finance