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Reporting Red Flag Behavior to Identify and Manage Risk on College Campuses
His English professor, Lucinda Roy, describes his writings as disturbing and "dripping with anger". She was so concerned in fact, that she decided to remove him from class and tutor him privately. His classmates described his work as very graphic and extremely disturbing. His roommate claimed that he was sullen and withdrawn, and often seemed to be out of touch with reality. Clearly Seung-Hui Cho exhibited troubling behavior, but it wasn't brought to light until that tragic day in April of 2007, when he killed 32 people on the campus of Virgina Tech and then turned the gun on himself.
Providing Safe and Secure College Campuses
With the growing number of criminal acts committed on college campuses in recent years, is it possible to keep the traditional university environment safe, open, and diverse? The answer to this question may reside in a combination of increased security, added technology, and a new pro-active perspective.
A New Technique for Mitigating Risk on College Campuses
High profile criminal acts continue to plague United States 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 (Virginia Tech), continue to demonstrate that while these efforts are welcome, they are not enough to address the ever increasing risks facing universities. This article addresses some of the gaps in existing risk mitigation efforts on U.S. college campuses and examines a relatively new incident reporting technology that is fast gaining acceptance as additional and ongoing risk mitigation tool for these environments.
Bucking Privacy Concerns, Cornell Acts as Watchdog
For 19 years as a custodian at Cornell University, Sue Welch has been taking out the garbage and mopping the floors of residence halls. Recently, she added a new responsibility: trying to prevent student suicide.
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