Preparing the plan
By Mike Kennedy
Crises and catastrophes can strike without warning. Impulsive acts of violence or natural disasters can easily set off a wave of panic. It's especially...
Migration To IP
Updating analog surveillance systems to IP-based video is a major challenge facing security professionals in the education market, especially in older...
Emergency Management on Campus
By Carol Carey
Clear leadership in an emergency situation can make a difference in life or death. This conviction has driven California State University at Fullerton...
A Secure Safety Net
When responding to hostage and other emergency situations inside of school buildings, police officers and first responders are often unable to take swift,...
Tech Watch
The Virginia Tech campus shooting further emphasized the need for colleges, universities and schools to implement emergency procedures to ensure effective...
Surveillance That Makes the Grade
By Ashley Roe
Interoperability is a term used often by security and education personnel across Harford County Public Schools (HCPS) in Maryland. With 32 elementary,...
Technology-Enabled Protection
As Canada's premier polytechnic institute, the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) is known for giving students job-ready skills they can...
School Security With Class
School security concerns have created a whole new meaning for the word CLASS at Greencastle-Antrim elementary and primary schools in Pennsylvania. The...
From The Field
Loyola University Chooses Megapixel Camera Technology Loyola University of Chicago has chosen to standardize its surveillance with megapixel network cameras...
Formidable Filtering
By Ashley Roe
In school systems throughout the U.S., the Internet has become a uniform learning tool used by students in the classroom and at home. Trussville City...
From The Field Schools and Universities
Security Helps Florida Schools to Comply with Jessica Lunsford Act The Jessica Lunsford Act, which took effect in September 2005, sets requirements to...
Video Evidence Backs Up University Police at Jacksonville State
Heightened concerns over the safety of police officers and the need to defend officers against false allegations provided the impetus for Jacksonville...
Tough on Cards
Students want to fit in. They want to be just like all of their friends. For students at Painesville City Local School District, an unusual point of differentiation...
Instant Feedback
By Ashley Roe
Spanning a total of 300,000 square feet in urban Washington, D.C., McKinley Technology High School, the second largest school in the District of Columbia...
West Va. University Gets Its Hands On Access Control
West Virginia University has chosen biometric hand readers to control access to its Student Recreation Center. The readers, from Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, are being used to replace a card swiping system already in place....
Patriotic Protection
By Carol Carey
George Mason University (GMU) is bursting with pride and record enrollment. The home of the GMU Patriots basketball team watched its applications soar...
Put to the Test
By Erin Semple
At 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 22, 2003, a distraught 16-year-old student pulls out a 9mm handgun during his science class at Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane,...
A Gradual Retrofit
The City of Allentown, PA. about 55 miles north of Philadelphia is the third largest city in the state. That's a far cry from the rural village that the...
NSU Academical Village Features Smart Cards
Nova Southeastern University (NSU), the nation's seventh largest private university, has chosen multi-functional smart card solutions using a new generation...
Technology Goes To School
BY ERIN SEMPLE
AT LARGE UNIVERSITIES, such as Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., security precautions are moving forward and soon will include digital video. Cornell...
Gloucester Public Schools learn the value of systems integration
Today's id card printers are generally easy to use. Many are meant to be plug-and-play devices and can be put into service quickly and easily. Some security...
Streamlined security at Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine
BY KATE HENRY
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA'S COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE recently made the switch to digital video recording, keeping installation, monitoring and maintenance...
Dorm room locks enhance security at Mississippi State
By Karen Baxter
Students lucky enough to live in the new 400-bed Ruby Hall on Mississippi State University's (MSU) campus in Starkville, Miss., enjoy the finest housing...
ASTM TO PROVIDE CRISIS PREPAREDNESS PLANS FOR SCHOOLS
The mass murder at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in 1999 brought the subject of school security into the U.S. national spotlight, and subsequent...
SURVEY: ONE IN 20 STUDENTS IS A VICTIM OF VIOLENCE OR THEFT
One in 20 students was a victim of violence or theft at school in 2003, the Departments of Education and Justice say in a report that shows school crime...
