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Francis Pastorelle – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Over the last two decades, there has been a dramatic increase in natural and manmade disasters. While no community is immune to the risks posed by these large-scale emergencies, colleges, and universities, which are home to numerous vulnerable populations, could be counted among those most at risk. In their current state of overall community…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Universities, Emergency Programs
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Shannan N. Rich; Emily M. Klann; Kelly K. Gurka; Meghan Froman; Matthew Walser; Cindy Prins; Paul Myers; Michael Lauzardo; Jerne Shapiro – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Background: We evaluate the public health surveillance program, Screen, Test, and Protect (STP) designed to control and prevent COVID-19 at a large academic university in the United States. Methods: STP was established at the University of Florida in May 2020. This report details STP's full-time workforce, centralized database, and testing and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control, Colleges
Tamara Frances McCollough – ProQuest LLC, 2024
When the COVID-19 pandemic occurred, public safety departments at four-year institutions of higher education in the U.S. were vulnerable. This vulnerability was because of the limited time they had to initiate their pandemic response to help protect their campus communities, and the need to create or revise institutional emergency response…
Descriptors: School Safety, Law Enforcement, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Anca Greere; Fiona Crozier – Quality in Higher Education, 2024
This article considers post-pandemic implications for higher education institutions and explores the steps required to continue with online delivery, where desirable. Strategic considerations are outlined and priorities for development analysed to ensure higher education institutions can align, in a post-pandemic future, with quality assurance…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, Emergency Programs
Kelly M. Kraynak – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Scholars and policymakers recommend that colleges and universities with publicly accessible threat assessment team (TAT) policies enhance campus safety. While many universities have TAT policies in place, external assessors usually have not thoroughly evaluated the actual content of those policies. A gap exists in the applied research literature…
Descriptors: Colleges, School Violence, School Security, Crime Prevention
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Dara Cassidy; David Sklar; Maikki Cullen; Gareth Edwards; Catherine Bruen; Jenny Moffett; Helen Kelly; Andrea Doyle; Martina Crehan; Jan Illing – Cogent Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about an unexpected transformation in teaching and learning across health professions education, necessitating an unprecedented operational shift. When exploring the factors at play in this shift, it is useful to analyse the pandemic response in terms of the field of disaster scholarship. This paper employs a…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Sciences, Educational Change