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North Carolina Campus Safe Task force, 2008. Attorney General Cooper charged the 21-member Task Force with reviewing the state of campus security and recommending ways to better respond to a critical incident. Specifically, he asked the Task Force to consider the following: (1) prevention of a critical incident, including increasing campus safety awareness and assessing whether particular students are a risk; (2) preparedness for a critical incident, including better ways to use technology and to enhance coordination between schools and law enforcement; (3) response to a critical incident, including the importance of having multi-hazard plans and crisis communications in place; and (4) recovery from a critical incident, including how campuses can learn from past tragic events.

This report reviews and recommends ways in which State policymakers, campuses, and law enforcement offices can improve response to an incident like the one at Virginia Tech. Additionally, this report highlights the many significant steps our campuses have already taken to keep students and faculty safe. As Hollis Stambaugh, Deputy Director of the Virginia Tech Review Panel, told Task Force members, “North Carolina is already ahead of the game.”

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There is much confusion at our universities and colleges about the Americans with Disabilities Act(ADA). How do universities adequately provide program accessibility for their campuses?
This guide will help facility management staff and ADA campus committees understand the school’s responsibilities under Title I and II of the ADA. Title I has specific protections for employees of government agencies and Title II covers the accessibility rights to all programs offered by Government-Owned institutions and agencies. Those rules are often implemented by using Title III, the physical design guidelines for the various required elements.

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Alipour-fard, (2007). Several years ago, a speaker at a conference predicted that, in a lifetime, the lion's share of college education would be transferred to distance learning programs, and the physical size of brick-and-mortar campuses would be reduced substantially. While distance learning has progressed since then, the capability of brick-and-mortar campuses as the primary venue of higher education remains, for now, unchallenged. Nationwide, campus physical plants continue to grow with the addition of new laboratories, dormitories, classrooms, stadiums and many other types of buildings.

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(NCES, 2014). Establishing reliable indicators of the current state of school crime and safety across the nation and regularly updating and monitoring these indicators are important in ensuring the safety of our nation’s students. This is the aim of Indicators of School Crime and Safety.

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Jill Nolin. (2014). George Washington University’s new Milken Institute School of Public Health has garnered the highest honor for its sustainability features. (Posted on July 22, 2014).
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Jill Nolin. (2014). George Washington University’s new Milken Institute School of Public Health has garnered the highest honor for its sustainability features. (Posted on July 22, 2014).

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ACEF Webinar, Presented By: Dr. Edward Steinfeld

In light of numerous lawsuits related to non-compliance with accessibility codes and standards, many universities have had to make modifications and policy changes. The IDeA Center has provided expert consultation on ADA lawsuits from both the plaintiff and defense sides. Based on our experience conducting university accessibility audits and providing expert witness testimony, this webinar reviews the most common accessibility problems faced by universities. Inclusive design strategies that can be implemented, along with best practice case studies, are provided to help overcome these problems with an emphasis on improving cost effectiveness by enhancing the campus for all students and staff. (Posted July 10, 2014).

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Rickes, P. C. (2009). 37 (2)

Millennials are those individuals born between 1982 and 2002, give or take a couple of years (Howe and Strauss 2000, 2007). They represent a generation that began to spill onto college and university campuses at the turn of the millennium and have already had a subtle—and sometimes not so subtle—impact on campus space. Millennials now influence space planning, design, and construction and will continue to transform higher education as they return to campus as faculty and staff.

http://www.rickesassociates.com/downloads/SCUP_MakeWayforMillennials.pdf

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