Emerging Issues Forums
It is essential to campus safety efforts that there be a vehicle for identifying, in concert with campus executives, emerging public safety and emergency management challenges and potential solutions. To this end, the NCCPS facilitates emerging issues forums to convene subject matter experts, practitioners, relevant professional association members, and government agency representatives to devise consensus strategies for successfully addressing identified challenges in specific topic areas. Here you will find information on previously conducted emerging issues forums. If you have questions about any of our reports, or have a topic you would like to recommend, please contact us.
September 2019
Implementation of Prior Recommendations and Barriers to Enactment
Since 2014, the National Center for Campus Public Safety (NCCPS) has conducted emerging issues forums all over the country. Those forums bring multi-disciplinary campus leaders together to identify challenges in public safety and emergency management, as well as help those leaders… READ MOREMarch 2019
Defining the Value of Campus Emergency Management Programs to Communities
At its most fundamental level, emergency management is a managerial function responsible for creating a framework that helps communities reduce their vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters so that those communities are safer and more resilient. Institutions of higher education… READ MOREOctober 2018
The Roles and Strategies of Campus Safety Teams for Preventing Violence in College and University Campus Communities
College campuses have generally become safer places over the last 15 years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), but for some types of violent crimes, the numbers have risen in recent years. Between 2001 and 2015, the overall number of reported crimes on… READ MORESeptember 2018
Managing Campus Protests and Demonstrations at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
From the Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s to today’s Black Lives Matter movement, students and faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have been at the vanguard of social reforms that change America. This powerful and enduring legacy was on the… READ MOREJuly 2018
Campus Policing in an Urban Environment
According to 2016 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, most Americans live in urban areas with only about one in five people living in rural areas. Urban areas are also home to 68% of the nation’s 7,000+ institutions of higher education (IHEs). In addition to educating students,… READ MOREJune 2018
Campus Protests and Demonstrations: The Role of Emergency Management
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides one of America’s most valued freedoms: the right to assemble. College campuses have long been places at which people have exercised this right, making them incubators, launch pads, and proving grounds for many of the… READ MOREApril 2018
Criminal Victimization of International Students: A National Conversation on Effective Prevention Practices
Since the end of the Second World War, international student enrollment in colleges and universities across the U.S. has grown steadily with enrollment exceeding 1 million international students for the first time in the 2015/16 school year. While 60% of the international students… READ MOREJune 2017