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Safety expert shares insights for boosting campus threat assessment, management
Author(s) -
McCarthy Claudine
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
campus legal advisor
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-6239
pISSN - 1531-3999
DOI - 10.1002/cala.40083
Subject(s) - boosting (machine learning) , tragedy (event) , virginia tech , university campus , public relations , psychology , computer security , medical education , political science , engineering , computer science , medicine , library science , civil engineering , psychiatry , artificial intelligence
In the year and a half leading up to the April 2007 tragedy at Virginia Tech, many members of the campus community had been separately documenting their concerns about the student who eventually ended up shooting and killing 32 students and faculty members. But without a central system to gather, track, or communicate all of these separate documentations from departments all across the campus, it was impossible to recognize and assess what could've been a preventable threat. And that's a common gap in many instances of violence on campuses throughout the country. But it doesn't have to be that way on your campus.