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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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Long Island campuses take a hard stance on boosting security
- 2008-04-18
A year after the shootings at Virginia Tech left 33 dead, Long Island's universities are taking campus security quite seriously. Local schools such as Hofstra, Dowling and Stony Brook University are fine-tuning messaging systems, installing speakers, beefing up closed-circuit television networks and requiring that students sign onto...
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...
Schools tackling safety
- 2008-03-30
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- On the agenda: a student who got into a shouting match with a faculty member. Another who harassed a female classmate. Someone found sleeping in a car. And a student who posted a threat against a professor on Facebook. In a practice adopted at one...
National campus security summit planned at University of Central
- 2008-03-20
University presidents, administrators, counselors and law enforcement officers from throughout the region are expected to attend the 2008 National Campus Security Summit on April 13-14 at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. This will be the second national campus security summit at UCO since the shooting deaths...
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 ...
Tonight's bowl game
- 2008-01-03
FedEx Orange at Miami No.5 Virginia Tech (11-2) vs. No.8 Kansas (11-1) Time/TV: 8 ET/Fox. Surface: Grass. Line: Virginia Tech by 3. Sagarin difference: Kansas +0.58. ...
Top story: Virginia Tech
- 2007-12-23
NEW YORK -- The massacre of 32 people at Virginia Tech by a mentally disturbed student gunman was chosen the top story of 2007 by U.S. editors and news directors in The Associated Press' annual vote. The rampage, which prompted colleges nationwide to reassess their emergency response systems,...
CCRKBA Says Best Way to Stop School Shootings is Abolish 'Gun Free Zones'
- 2007-10-17
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, +1-425-454-4911 BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While anti- gun organizations are demanding that Congress quickly pass new legislation in response to the Virginia Tech massacre, the Citizens Committee for the Right to...
Chabot parking lot safety becomes an issue
- 2007-10-07
HAYWARD -- A carjacking at gunpoint in a Chabot College parking lot Sept. 24 has Bob Williams concerned. Williams, 55, takes business classes at Chabot and uses the campus parking lots. "I do not feel safe there," he said. "They should have at least warned everyone that day."...
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