Articles Tagged with ''student safety''

 Vanderbilt University has earned many distinctions, including Princeton Review’s top ranking for colleges with the happiest students. The school’s latest endeavor is taking the plunge and going mobile with access control.  

The Los Angeles Unified school police will stop giving citations for fighting, petty theft and other minor offenses, moving instead to refer students to counseling or other programs. The step back from punitive law enforcement actions reflects growing research that handling minor offenses with police actions does not necessarily make campuses safer. Those actions do often push struggling students to drop out and get in more serious trouble with law enforcement.

Students living on Texan college campuses may be required to undergo a background check through the state before moving in.

Northside Independent School District's decision to RFID-enable student IDs to better facilitate attendance-taking and student tracking in emergencies is under fire, again.

In response to the national issues of drug and alcohol abuse on college campuses, the University of Pennsylvania has formed a new commission on student safety, alcohol and campus life. 

Despite conservative groups' protests, Northside School District requires students to wear RFID-enabled IDs for better attendance tracking.

The labor union representing the Yale Police Department, condemned new administrative policy on police and security deployment, which they said jeopardizes student safety.