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Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, Virginia Tech is now a comprehensive, innovative research university with the largest full-time student population in Virginia. Through a combination of its three missions of learning, discovery, and engagement, Virginia Tech continually strives to accomplish the charge of its motto: Ut Prosim (That I May Serve).
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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Colleges on the alert in low-tech ways, too
- 2008-04-15
After the shootings last year at Virginia Tech and a February rampage at Northern Illinois University, colleges and universities nationwide are installing high-tech alert systems that beam emergency e-mails and voice messages to thousands of cellphones, pagers and personal computers to alert staff and students both on and off campus....
Virginia Tech remembers its dead -- but life goes on
- 2008-04-15
BLACKSBURG, Virginia AFP — The corridor walls of Norris Hall are posted with the usual notices for university clubs, social events and rooms for rent, while inside its engineering labs students are hard at work. The Virginia Tech building shows no sign of the tragedy that took place here...
Ready, set, respond: the Virginia Tech tragedy prompted college and university leaders to plan in new ways for responding when the unexpected happens. A year later, how much progress has been made in bridging crisis communication gaps?
- 2008-04-01
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS HAD prepared for an act of violence. Shortly after the Virginia Tech tragedy, they appointed a panel to revise security measures and establish a new emergency action plan. That plan was put to the test on Valentine's Day, when a former graduate student opened fire in...
Mass notification alert systems spread on campuses.(SECURITY BEAT: HOMELAND DEFENSE BRIEFS)(Brief article)
- 2008-03-01
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The tragic shooting at Virginia Tech last year has sparked interest at educational institutions in mass notification software systems that send out e-mails, text and prerecorded phone alerts. Until the shooting, where more than 30 lost their lives, companies ...
In the wake of Virginia Tech
- 2007-12-01
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On April 16, Seung-Hui Cho, a 23-year-old English major at Virginia Tech, killed 32 people and wounded 17 more before turning a gun on himself in what became the deadliest school shooting in U.S history. In the wake of the massacre, international media coverage and intense debates...
Police say high school graffiti threat mentioning Virginia Tech
- 2007-10-18
Police believe that a graffiti threat discovered earlier this week in a bathroom at Junipero Serra High School which mentioned the Virginia Tech massacre was probably a hoax. "We're seeing this as a really terrible and cruel prank," said San Mateo police Lt. Mike Brunicardi. "But it...
Campus alert systems take hold
- 2007-10-03
When a University of Memphis football player was found fatally shot on campus, resident assistants banged on doors warning students to stay in their dorm rooms. When a man wearing a Fred Flintstone mask and toting a .50-caliber rifle was arrested at St. John's University in...
Slow action faulted in Virginia Tech massacre
- 2007-08-30
WASHINGTON AFP — Officials' slow action likely cost lives of students and staff ahead of the bloodiest campus massacre in US history, an investigation into the April shooting at Virginia Tech University concluded Wednesday. The probe by the US state of Virginia noted crucial errors by university police and...
Report: Va. Tech could have saved lives by notifying students
- 2007-08-30
RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia Tech officials could have saved lives if they had quickly warned the campus that two students had been shot to death and their killer was on the loose, a panel that investigated the attacks said. Instead, it took administrators more than two hours to...
Bar the door
- 2007-08-29
It's a school safety measure that almost sounds too simple to be effective, and yet it makes sense. The idea: Put locks on the inside of classroom doors. Experts say interior door locks are often overlooked by school and college administrators nationwide examining ways to improve...
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