Articles Tagged with ''University security''

Beginning her career as a municipal police department dispatcher, Eileen Behr worked her way through various divisions and assignments over the course of 32 years – including accident and traffic, tactical negotiator, juvenile, investigations and emergency management coordinator – to eventually become the first female police chief in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. After the sudden death of the Montgomery County sheriff in 2011, Behr was appointed sheriff.

William Babb has been named the new chief of police and director of security at Virginia Tech University.

American universities are breeding grounds for innovation and research for students from across the globe. They are also a primary target of IP theft and cyber-attacks by some of these very students and their governments. America’s universities, supported by industry and by the U.S. federal and state governments, must be ready to protect the billions of U.S. dollars invested by the U.S. government and corporations to develop new technologies.

Who is leading the way in enterprise security? These 26 thought-leaders are making a difference, positively impacting the security field, their organization, colleagues and peers and the national and global security landscape.

North Greenville University in Tigerville, S.C. has grown from being a Junior College to a university with 2,550 students.

At High Point University in High Point, N.C., Chief Karpovich inherited one department and 12 employees and has built four more departments (Transportation, Parking, Safety & EM) with 130 employees.

Terri Brown has been named Chief of Police at Florida State University. 

Joseph Milek, assistant chief of police at Oklahoma State University, has been named chief of police operations for Penn State University Police and Public Safety.