Campus Emergency Response Plans: A Primer on DOE's New Rules

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Campus Emergency Response Plans- A Primer on the Department's New Rules

By Stephen T. Chema, II Esq.

The author is an attorney practicing in the Higher Education Group at the law firm of Ritzert & Leyton, PC in Fairfax, Virginia.

Because of the well publicized school shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007 and Northern Illinois University in 2008, Congress devoted significant attention to issues of campus crime and campus safety when it began working on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act in 2008.

The Congressional desire for safer campuses ultimately resulted in provisions in the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA) which included new requirements for how institutions should prepare for and handle emergencies on campus.[2] Among many other changes, the HEOA added the requirement that institutions prepare a policy statement describing their emergency response and evacuation procedures, including the use of electronic and cellular communication (if appropriate).

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[2] See, HEOA § 488(e)(1)(D).

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