Emory on Board With Barcode Readers
Atlanta's Emory University features a 72-acre, walking campus that practices environmentally sustainable concepts. It offers curvilinear landscapes with...
PROPER SCHOOL DESIGN CAN ACHIEVE SAFETY AND SECURITY
School designers and administrators are responsible for protecting children while conserving financial resources. Safety issues can be addressed with...
BIOMETRICS PROTECTS RUTGERS U. RESEARCH
Rutgers University in New Jersey has chosen to deploy an integrated Biometric Subscription Control System (BSCS) to monitor and control use of expensive...
In Compliance
As part of a district program to improve the accessibility and security of its nine high schools, the Glendale Union (Ariz.) High School District has...
Monitoring The Halls
By Carol Carey
IN RECENT YEARS, safety and security issues have been front and center at many of the nation's colleges and universities. Security issues are magnified...
Entering School Zone
By Michael Fickes
Students today usually share their schools with the people that pay for schools residents of the surrounding communities. But, do shared school facilities...
Merging Systems
by Randy Southerland
When it came to access control, the School District of Lee County in southwest Florida was looking for a system that allowed maximum flexibility while...
Divide and Monitor
By Erin Semple
Lebanon High School is home to 1,380 students in Lebanon, Ore. a bedroom community to nearby Corvallis and Albany. Although the school is nestled in a...
Prestigious Protection
By Carol Carey
With 34,933 students and 12,112 employees, the University of Maryland at College Park is one of the largest and most prestigious institutions of higher...
One Card at a Time
by Corrina Stellitano
For some, college is just a rest stop on the road to responsibility. Knowing this, proactive college administrators are selecting security systems that...
ProacTive Upgrades
There are more than 1,000 independent school districts (ISDs) in Texas. Security officers do not have arrest powers in Texas, and city law enforcement...
On Location
Between 2000 and 2001, the Spring ISD (Independent School District) Child Nutrition Department in Texas installed cameras and VCRs into half of the elementary...
Cambridge Secures Its Back Doors
Cambridge (Mass.) College needed to secure the entrances and parking structure at its main campus. Because the building is used by administrators, faculty,...
Fairleigh Innovative
By Randy Southerland
Fairleigh Dickinson University is the largest private institution in New Jersey with 10,000 students pursuing higher education on two campuses in the...
IP Video Solves Schools' Compatibility Issues
The Ramapo and Indian Hills school districts in New Jersey have installed more than 140 cameras at the two high school campuses. However, like many school...
Well-Educated in Access Control
Cambridge College, founded in 1971 and an independent institution since 1981, offers an environment in which working adults can continue their education....
Back to School: Security Management
By CORRINA STELLITANO
Every year, security professionals enter the corporate world armed with experience and education. According to respondents to the 2004 ASIS International...
SPEEDING UP THE LUNCH LINE
Once the purview of the FBI and criminal investigators, fingerprint technology is now being used at colleges around the nation for everyday applications...
Riding High With Video Surveillance
More than 10 buildings at the Lawrenceville, N.J., campus of Rider University now feature advanced digital video surveillance systems from North American...
Princeton Computers Stay Cool and Dry
Like other universities and research centers, Princeton University has been tasked to protect the school's intellectual property, students and faculty....
PROTECTION PROJECT
The School District of Greenville County in South Carolina is the largest public school system in the state and the 63rd largest in the country. The consolidated,...
HAND-OFF
Robert C. Byrd High School, Clarksburg, W. Va., was dedicated in November 1995 and named after the West Virginia senator. The 189,019 sq. ft., four-year...
Video In Defense Of School Children
Television viewers across the nation recoiled in horror this February when news programs repeatedly showed video from a school bus surveillance system...
Cards serve multiple purposes for D.C. university
Gallaudet University in Washington D.C., offers educational programs for hearing impaired students from infants and their parents and through middle and...
Surveillance system deals blow to school vandals
Council Bluffs Community School District, a 21-school system comprised of grade schools, junior highs and high schools in Council Bluff, Iowa, recently...
