Universities from Coast to Coast to Attend
2007 National Campus Security Summit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 24, 2007

Contact: Charlie Johnson, UCO News Bureau Director, (405) 974-2315

(Edmond, Okla.) – Twenty-four states will be represented as university presidents, administrators, and law enforcement gather for the 2007 National Campus Security Summit, to be held May 30 on the University of Central Oklahoma campus in Edmond.

California, Wyoming, Utah, Michigan, Texas and Florida are just a few of the states with representatives reserving seats at the Summit.

The Summit is the first of its kind in the U.S. since the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus in April. It pulls together speakers from throughout the country to offer practical ideas to help protect the nation’s public and private campuses.

“We are encouraged that an event announced only a few weeks ago would draw such a broad audience,” said Summit co-host and MIPT Executive Director Donald Hamilton. “With half the states represented in a spread running from New York to California and including every contiguous state, we are confident this conference will make a real difference in the coming academic year.”

Featured speakers at the Summit include two Virginia Tech student leaders who will share a message from their experience with violence. David Paulison, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and former FBI profiler and NBC commentator Clint Van Zandt also will make presentations.

Topics to be addressed at the Summit include:
· The Psychology of Rage;
· Privacy and the Law;
· Crisis Communications;
· Threat Assessment and the Campus Environment.

The one-day Summit is being hosted by UCO, MIPT, the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU).

For more information, go to the 2007 National Campus Security Summit website at http://campussecuritysummit.ucok.edu.


MIPT is a non-profit, nationally recognized think-tank creating state-of-the-art knowledge bases. Internet users may access the world’s largest single source of information on terrorism at www.MIPT.org.

The University of Central Oklahoma is a public, four-year, master’s level university. Founded in 1890, UCO is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of Oklahoma.

UCO also is home to the nationally known UCO Forensic Science Institute, headed by Dr. Dwight Adams, former director of the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Va.

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