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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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