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Nine people were killed during a shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College on Thursday. The shooter, a 26-year-old student, was killed in a shootout with law enforcement. 

A survey by the Association of American Universities (AAU) found that 23% of female college students have been sexually assaulted. 

New York State Police plan to assign senior investigators to help campus and local police statewide deal with college date rapes.

In North Carolina, High Point University is in its tenth year of a transition into a private, boutique university, and the security department is not exempt from the changes impacting the school. When Jeff Karpovich, CPP, CHPA, joined High Point University as its chief of Security, there were just 12 employees in the division and 62 surveillance cameras. Now, seven years later, he is responsible for 120 employees across three departments, managing 82 uniformed security officers for the school and working with approximately 900 surveillance cameras.

UC President Santa J. Ono has appointed criminal justice researcher Robin Engel to the new role of vice president for safety and reform. 

The University of Florida will begin using a series of online self-assessment tools to improve campus safety programs.

An Ann Arbor resident is suing the University of Michigan after being denied a permit to open carry a gun on campus.
 

Sen. Claire McCaskill has introduced pending legislation in the Senate called the Campus Safety and Accountability Act, intended to supplant or simplify the Clery Act.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law legislation to combat sexual assault on both public and private college campuses throughout New York.