Posts Tagged: terrorism

Insuring Student Safety on Campus and Abroad

College campuses are not immune to mounting safety and security concerns that stem from international and domestic terror threats, active shooter situations and more. Parents of students want to know that their children are safe when they leave home for the first time. The antennas raise even higher for parents when they hear their students plan to spend the next term studying abroad. What some m...

Deadly Serious: The Boston Marathon Tragedy and Education

As this year began, NEJHE published the thoughtful concerns of Lasell College admissions official Christopher M. Gray about how colleges would need to address applicants who have experienced a traumatic and life-changing event such as 9/11 or the Sandy Hook mass murders. Now such events have visited Boston and so will traumatized applicants. Two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon on Monday, ...