SACRAMENTO — California state academic institutions are bracing for a massive state-wide demonstration on March 4 by students, faculty, staff and parents. The strike, which will involve University of California, Cal State, Community College and K-12 campuses, will protest the state’s public education budget cuts, according to event organizers.

WASHINGTON — Repeat offenders account for a significant number of sexual assaults on campus, but school authorities are often slow to realize they have such “undetected rapists” in their midst, according to a joint investigation by Texas Watchdog and the Center for Public Integrity.

LOS ANGELES — Campus Safety magazine has unveiled a new online resource: PoliceCareerFinder.com - a job board dedicated to connecting qualified professionals with municipal, state and federal agencies along with universities, schools and hospitals that are looking for police, public safety and security personnel.

LONG BRANCH, N.J. — As road crews worked around the clock and residents extracted themselves from the onslaught of February storms, Cooper Notification's award-winning Roam Secure Alert Network (RSAN) systems sent more than 11 million messages throughout the mid-Atlantic to communicate critical information, including school and road closures, severe weather warnings, shelter-in-place, and opening of warming centers.

CHANTILLY, Va. — Virginia Wesleyan University, based in Norfolk, Va., has deployed SpectraRep LLC’s ActiveCrawl RSS solution, which provides emergency desktop alert notifications straight to computers campus-wide.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Three University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) employees were killed and three were wounded in an on-campus shooting Feb. 12. Five of the victims were faculty members and one was a staff member.

LOS ANGELES — University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Director of Police Community Services Dr. Nancy Greenstein Ed.D. has been named winner of the 2009 Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award by Security On Campus Inc. (SOC).

LONG BEACH, Calif. — South-Western City Schools (SWCS) Project Director Gary L. Sigrist Jr. will discuss his experience with the Readiness and Emergency Management in Schools (REMS) program at the Campus Safety Conference on Tuesday, March 30.

BOSTON — Students at Boston University (BU) are questioning why authorities didn’t send out an emergency alert after a woman reported that she was inappropriately touched in a College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) elevator on Jan. 20.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education is reporting that Recovery Act funding is being used to fill over $40 billion in projected state education budget shortfalls for FY '09 and FY '10. In a statement released by the department Feb. 1, it claims that although state and local budgets remain strained, most school systems throughout the country would be facing more severe fiscal situations without this funding.