1. Senate Education Committee Includes Crisis Response Provisions In Higher Education Bill 2. Campus Crime In The News
	Senate Education Committee Includes Crisis Response Provisions In Higher Education Bill Washington, DC-In the wake of April's campus shootings at Virginia Tech, legislation moving through the U.S. Senate would amend the Jeanne Clery Act to require timely alerts to college and university campus communities about any "immediate threat to the health or safety of students or staff, occurring on the campus." The provisions were included in a comprehensive, bipartisan higher education bill, S. 1642, passed by the Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions last week. "We also create a new student safety grant program to help colleges and universities improve their campus safety and emergency response systems," said Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) the Chairman of the Committee. "As the nightmare at Virginia Tech made us all too aware, tragedy can strike anywhere, including on college campuses." Additionally the bill authorizes the Departments of Education, Justice, and Homeland Security to jointly advise institutions of higher education on "model emergency response policies, procedures and practices." The Education and Justice Departments would further be authorized to disseminate best practices for general campus safety and emergency responses. Campus Crime In The News Student appeals libel case stemming from campus crime alert (SPLC; 06/27/07) Campus security flaws a pattern in slayings (USA Today; 06/13/07) Va. Tech Families Demand Role on Panel (AP; 06/11/07) EMU cover-up broke the law (Detroit Free Press; 06/09/07) The Importance of Enforcing Alcohol Rules (The Chronicle Of Higher Education; 06/01/07) Call For Charges Grow In Alleged De Anza Rape (KGO-TV; 05/31/07)
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