Virginia Tech Was Slow to Respond to Gunman, Panel Finds

Autor/inn/en	Fischer, Karin; Wilson, Robin
Titel	Virginia Tech Was Slow to Respond to Gunman, Panel Finds
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2007) 2, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Reports; School Security; Crisis Management; College Administration; State Universities; Violence; Privacy; Emergency Programs; Virginia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abschlussbericht; Berichten; Krisenmanagement; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Staatliche Universität; Gewalt; Privatsphäre; Hilfsprogramm
Abstract	This article reports on the findings of the state panel on the Virginia Tech massacre. A state panel that investigated last spring's massacre at Virginia Tech has issued a harshly worded report that says the university erred in the way it handled a mentally disabled student who became a killer and in how it dealt with the immediate aftermath of the shootings. The report was one of several developments involving the shootings in the last several weeks, including the release of an internal review by the university. The panel found that the Virginia Tech police made a mistake in "prematurely concluding" that the first two murders on April 16, which occurred in a campus dormitory room, resulted from a domestic dispute and that the killer had probably left the campus. The report said the university waited much too long--about two hours--to issue a campuswide alert about those murders. While it found fault with the response to the attack, and made many recommendations for improvements, the panel did not call for the firing of any officials. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10