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April M. Bixler – ProQuest LLC, 2023
An ultimate goal of American universities is to provide a safe and secure environment for all who attend and operate there, but what safety looks and feels like to the individual can vary to a great degree. There are many factors that campus safety departments consider when designing their campus safety policies and regulations. One way…
Descriptors: School Security, School Safety, Weapons, Governance
Education Commission of the States, 2022
This resource includes state statutes and regulations that explicitly allow concealed firearms on campus, explicitly prohibit firearm possession on campus, and statute or regulations that allow guns in locked vehicles on college campuses. In some states, court cases have overturned or altered statewide or systemwide policies related to guns on…
Descriptors: Campuses, School Security, School Safety, Weapons
Jason C. Koele – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Over the past 25 years school violence in the form of active shootings has steadily increased in frequency and devastation. Schools across the United States have leveraged a multitude of security mechanisms and philosophies to stop active shooter violence. The 2020 COVID pandemic further ignited violence within the schools and a rise in teacher…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, School Safety, Weapons
Hailey Ann Hermosa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The view that colleges are generally safe has been challenged by threats of violence on campuses across the country, causing fear among stakeholders. Community college faculty are not immune to crime-related fear on campus; however, the research has largely ignored this population. This research serves to fill that gap. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Safety, Campuses, College Faculty
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
Erwin, Ben – Education Commission of the States, 2019
Ensuring the safety and security of students is vital to creating a positive learning environment. Active shooter situations at postsecondary institutions resulted in about 150 casualties between 2000 and 2017. This prevalence of gun violence at postsecondary institutions, which is often viewed in the context of larger conversations around gun…
Descriptors: Weapons, State Policy, State Legislation, Postsecondary Education
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
Erick J. Lindsey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research study focuses on students' and faculty's awareness and preparedness during an active-shooter event. The study examines the perceptions and abilities of the students and faculty at a large southern university. The study surveys the participants current ability to use and their opinions of using the emergency alert notification system…
Descriptors: School Safety, Weapons, College Faculty, Emergency Programs
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Ruoppila, Sampo – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
Campus carry laws have allowed civilians to legally bring their concealed firearms onto college and university campuses in several states in the U.S. over the past decade. Previous studies have addressed the policy's legal grounds, arguments for and against it, impacts on campus safety, and faculty and students' attitudes toward it. This paper…
Descriptors: Campuses, School Policy, Universities, Weapons
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Holmes, Hayden L.; Brewer, Lauren E.; Kerr, Stacey A. – Journal of American College Health, 2019
Objective: This study assessed whether college students felt less safe or were less likely to work with another student when they thought the person they would work with was carrying a handgun than when they did not. Participants: Seventy participants were recruited from a public US university where campus carry was legal. Methods: Participants…
Descriptors: Weapons, Safety, Interpersonal Relationship, Public Health
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Hassett, Matthew R.; Kim, Bitna – Journal of School Violence, 2021
This study examined attitudes toward campus carry -- a policy that would permit individuals to carry concealed firearms on a university's grounds if they possess a permit. Survey data were collected from a sample of 1,380 members of a campus community -- undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff -- at a medium-sized public…
Descriptors: Campuses, Weapons, Universities, School Policy
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Johnson, David R.; Zhang, Liang – Educational Researcher, 2020
Using a data set that captures the introduction and enactment of "campus carry" bills between 2004 and 2016, we examined how the state policy adoption and diffusion framework explains the policy process related to allowing concealed weapons on the campuses of U.S. colleges and universities. Panel data logistic regression analyses…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, State Legislation, Weapons
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Hester, Erin B.; Geegan, Sarah; Ivanov, Bobi – Journal of School Violence, 2022
Although fatal shootings on U.S. college campuses are statistically rare, students are routinely confronted with information suggesting that shootings are rampant and unavoidable. Pre-crisis interventions should address the threat of deceptive claims and restore beliefs that universities are capable of protecting students from violence. This…
Descriptors: School Violence, Weapons, School Safety, Deception
James E. Jones V. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Campus shootings have impacted campuses across the United States for almost two centuries. Between 2015 and 2016, at least three historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) experienced multiple shootings where students were killed in each incident. This qualitative comparative case study used secondary data to explore the similarities and…
Descriptors: Violence, Black Colleges, Weapons, Campuses
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Etor, Comfort R.; Etudor-Eyo, Eno; Ukpabio, Godfrey E. – International Education Studies, 2020
The study examined provision of security facilities and security personnel service delivery in Universities in Cross River State, Nigeria. Three research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. The ex-post facto design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 440 security personnel while the sample size was 400…
Descriptors: Universities, Security Personnel, School Security, Delivery Systems
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