Stan Molinski
2008
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Educause Quarterly
Abstract
© 2008 Stan Molinski Last year’s shootings on the Virginia Tech campus prompted a great deal of discussion about the role technology plays in campus safety. This year, Saint Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey, saw firsthand how important human systems are in keeping campuses safe. Combining technology with human systems enables the most effective response in a crisis situation. On February 20, a note threatening violence and referencing the Virginia Tech shootings was found taped to a hallway wall on the campus of Saint Peter’s College. The note spurred a five-hour campus lockdown. Emergency communication plans were activated to provide warning to our 3,000plus students, faculty, and staff through text, e-mail, and website alerts. A newly installed wireless network kept students with their laptops informed. Commuter students who arrived on campus were turned away by campus security and Jersey City police. The campus community was then evacuated as the Jersey City Police Department conducted a room-by-room search of the campus. No bomb Leveraging Technology and Human Systems in an Emergency