Amid the growing national debate over gun laws and safety -- in the wake of the tragic mass murder at an elementary school in Connecticut -- here is a compilation of articles from the last two years about higher education and regulation of guns:
- Two Casper College faculty members killed. [1]
- How campus safety and mental-health experts try to identify those who may be prone to be shooters. [2]
- Colorado Supreme Court bars the University of Colorado from banning guns on campus. [3]
- Momentum shifts away from gun bans [4] and limits on college campuses.
- How higher education defeated a move to allow concealed weapons on Texas campuses. [5]
- Why some students push for more guns on campuses. [6]
- After ex-student at Pima Community College shoots a Congresswoman, experts consider the challenges faced by community colleges [7] in dealing with potentially dangerous students.
- Essay on what it is like to be a professor fearful for your safety [8] because of a student.
Among the details that emerged Sunday about Adam Lanza -- who killed 26 people and then himself on Friday -- was that he enrolled at Western Connecticut State University at the age of 16, and earned a B average in several courses, The Los Angeles Times [9] reported.
Western Connecticut also has ties to two victims at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. [10] Jimmy Greene, who is on the jazz faculty at the university, lost a daughter, Ana, in the killings. And a nursing student at the university, Thomas Murphy, lost his mother, Anne Marie Murphy, who was a teacher's aide at the school.
Also, on Friday night, Massachusetts authorities arrested a junior at College of the Holy Cross and charged him with posting threats online Thursday (before the Sandy Hook killings) that he would go to a theater and "shoot it up," The Boston Globe [11] reported. The college suspended him Friday night, pending resolution of legal proceedings.