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Sixty-seven U.S. colleges are under federal investigation for their handling of sexual assault cases. And prospective students have started to take notice. The past academic year marked a seismic shift. No longer were discussions of campus sexual assault confined to a handful of Northeastern colleges. From the University of California, Berkeley, to the Pennsylvania State…
Immigration crisis WICHITA, Kan. – The White House is calling it a humanitarian crisis. Fifty-two thousand immigrant children have illegally crossed the U.S. border this year. Legally, most can’t be deported because they came without an adult and because of the deportation rule for the countries they came from. Now charities across the nation are…
By Laura Zuckerman SALMON Idaho (Reuters) -Public safety officers armed with semi-automatic pistols will patrol Idaho State University for the first time on Tuesday to safeguard students and staff, in response to a new state law allowing concealed weapons on college campuses. Click here to continue reading…
Most students heading to college are consumed with the adjustment to dorm life, the sometimes complex maze of the registration process and the cheapest place to purchase textbooks and supplies. However, recent events on campuses across the country, particularly the tragic massacre that occurred at Virginia Technical College just a few short years ago, have…
A University of Washington student has been arrested for allegedly making threats to kill women and comparing himself to Elliot Rodger, the gunman who killed six people and then himself near the University of California, Santa Barbara. The 23-year-old, who has not been charged, was ordered held on $150,000 bail Monday after a judge found…
Campus safety is on the minds of many college-age women these days. Female students were among the targets in the deadly attacks last week near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. But even before then, sexual harassment and assault on college campuses were making headlines.In the past couple months, the U.S Department…
According to an Education Department report, the number of sexual assualts rported on college campuses increased from 2,200 in 2001 to 3,300 in 2011. The number of sex crimes reported on U.S. college campuses soared by 50% over the course of a decade, according to a new government report Tuesday, even as total campus crime…
WorldStage Newsonline– The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) Nigeria, West Africa Chapter has elected a Nigeria, Air Vice Marshal Mohammed Audu-Bida (rtd)as the first Chairman for the Nigeria’s Chapter. Members of TIEMS Nigeria currently include professional emergency managers, academics, journalists and volunteers who have interest in emergency management. The body, which was founded in Washington,…