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Direct linkHernández, Susana H. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2023
Throughout history, guns have been used as tools for social control to instill terror within minoritized communities. Campus carry is a current gun law that now allows licensed concealed handgun holders to carry on public college campuses in 11 U.S. states, including Texas (National Conference of State Legislatures [NCSL], 2018). This qualitative…
Descriptors: Weapons, School Safety, Minority Group Teachers, College Faculty
Calhoun, Tammy – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Texas community colleges are facing new challenges every day from outside forces. One of the latest forces is the Texas state legislature. The state legislature has allowed the carrying of conceal weapons on community college campuses with the passing of Senate Bill 11 (Handgun Laws, 2018). Historically, community colleges have been safe places…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, State Legislation, Weapons
Jones, Hannah E.; Horan, Sean M. – Communication Education, 2019
Students' concealed carry of guns is now legally allowed at many instructors' places of employment, representing an influential and understudied message. Therefore, using Emotional Response Theory and the chilling effect, the purpose of this study was to examine how college instructors perceived the legal presence of guns on campus influenced…
Descriptors: Weapons, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Power Structure
Beggan, Dominic M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
One of the most pressing concerns on college campuses today is student safety. To date, nine states have passed Campus Carry legislation and more states may follow. Texas was the eighth state to pass Campus Carry legislation. Specifically, in the 2015 Legislative session, the Texas Legislature voted to allow License to Carry (LTC) holders to carry…
Descriptors: College Students, School Safety, Campuses, Weapons
Cradit, Nathaniel W. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech is one part of a decades-long increase in the frequency of gun violence on U.S. college and university campuses (Drysdale, Modzeleski, & Simons, 2010; Ferraro, 2015). The events at Virginia Tech also served as a catalyst for the spread of so-called "campus-carry" laws, or acts of state policy…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, College Environment, Higher Education
