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Guernsey, Lisa – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Colleges capture a slew of highly sensitive information on everyone on campus. While chief privacy officer has become a recognized title in the corporate world, higher education seems slow to pick up on the trend--a reluctance that could represent either head-in-the-sand thinking or fiscally prudent avoidance of bureaucratic bloat. This article…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Management, Information Policy, Confidential Records
Rampell, Catherine – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article reports on the withdrawal of some universities' support of a music industry's campaign against music piracy on their campuses. Talk to the chief information officer at just about any American university, and he will probably say that his institution has bent over backward to help the Recording Industry Association of America curb…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Music, Lobbying, Industry
Hoover, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Since 1970, officers on the Seattle campus have regularly patrolled the hallways of dormitories of the University of Washington. It is a community-policing strategy, a low-key way to engage students. However, the practice might cease this fall. In June, the state's Court of Appeals ruled that students have the same right to privacy in dormitory…
Descriptors: School Safety, Police, Dormitories, Student Rights
Williamson, Ronald – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2010
Cyberbullying involves repeated and unwanted aggressive behavior using the Internet, cell phones or other digital devices and is used to hurt or embarrass another person. The National Crime Prevention Council found that 43% of teens had experienced some form of cyberbullying in the past year and that cyberbullying is most common among 15-16 year…
Descriptors: Evidence, School Personnel, Aggression, Crime
Newman, Katherine S. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
The author of this article, a sociologist who has studied the social roots of school shootings, describes what scholars of adolescent violence have learned from research about the causes of rampage shootings. Among her observations: (1) rampage school shootings are never spontaneous; (2) school shooters broadcast their intentions; (3) school…
Descriptors: Schools, Violence, Adolescents, Crime Prevention
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Loves, Mark – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2009
Feedback from post graduate domestic and international students has highlighted the difficulties many have in coping with academic expectations of critical analytical thinking, reading and writing skills, academic language, referencing and expectations surrounding plagiarism and assessment. Many international students indicate that these concepts…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Teaching, Academic Discourse, Educational Development
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Krebs, Christopher P.; Strom, Kevin J.; Koetse, Willem H.; Lattimore, Pamela K. – Crime & Delinquency, 2009
A variety of approaches for addressing drug use and drug-related crime among the nearly 5 million offenders on community supervision in the United States has been tried and evaluated, but questions remain about which policies or programs are most effective. The authors use a large data set to assess the impact of residential and nonresidential…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Drug Education, Crime, Outcomes of Treatment
New Jersey Department of Education, 2014
This report presents information reported by New Jersey public schools on incidents of violence, vandalism, weapons, and substance abuse offenses. It also includes information on harassment, intimidation, and bullying (HIB) for the 2013-14 school year. The information is presented annually by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) to the…
Descriptors: Weapons, Charter Schools, Substance Abuse, Violence
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Rincon, Alejandra – Journal of College Admission, 2010
In this article, the author talks about an increasing movement that generates support for the Dream Act, the federal proposal which would allow some undocumented students to begin the path towards permanent residency. Beginning in Summer 2009, when more than 500 converged in DC for a national Dream Act graduation ceremony, students and their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Undocumented Immigrants, State Legislation, Federal Legislation
Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention, 2008
This "Infofacts/Resources" describes the scope of the problem of sexual assault on campus, perpetrator characteristics and situational circumstances that may make assaults more likely to happen, and the role alcohol and other drugs, including rape-facilitating drugs, play in sexual assault. This publication also provides an overview of sexual…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Abuse, Rape, Sexual Harassment
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Hughes, Stephanie; White, Rebecca J.; Hertz, Giles – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2008
High-profile criminal acts continue to plague United States (US) college campuses despite recent efforts to implement more aggressive risk mitigation practices, such as criminal background checks. Despite these efforts, incidents such as the most recent shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University continue to demonstrate that,…
Descriptors: School Security, Crime, Crime Prevention, Risk Management
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Orchowski, Lindsay M.; Gidycz, Christine A.; Raffle, Holly – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2008
The current study extends the development and evaluation of an existing and previously evaluated sexual assault risk reduction program with a self-defense component for college women (N = 300). The program protocol was revised to address psychological barriers to responding assertively to risky dating situations, and a placebo-control group was…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Self Efficacy, Risk, Females
Fain, Terry; Turner, Susan; Ridgeway, Greg – RAND Corporation, 2009
This document is the second quarterly progress report for the evaluation of Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act (JJCPA) programs for the Los Angeles County Probation Department. The report covers the period from July 1, 2008, through September 30, 2008. The intent of the report is to provide Probation and the community-based organizations (CBOs)…
Descriptors: Crime, Crime Prevention, Quality Control, Program Effectiveness
Rikleen, Lauren Stiller – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
The recent events at Virginia Tech reinforce the idea that nothing is more fundamental for college leaders to address than campus security and safety. After the tears, the makeshift memorials, and the intensely painful series of funerals, higher education must come to grips with the fact that it has just had its own September 11. Assessing and…
Descriptors: School Security, Privacy, School Safety, Crime Prevention
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Roberts, James C. – Journal of Drug Education, 2007
Relying on a structured observation guide listing a large number of variables shown to be good predictors of aggression in bars by past researchers, trained observers spent a total of 444 hours collecting data in 25 licensed drinking establishments in Hoboken, New Jersey. Observations took place at two separate time periods, 7:30pm-10:30pm and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Prevention, Drinking, Predictor Variables
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