The university’s decision to host police officers on campus during the Republican National Convention sparks outrage and fear among students following the shooting deaths of two black men in Minneapolis and Louisiana.
More and more campuses are realizing the need to have armed public safety professionals on campus.
A security guard was shot at outside of Fort Hood Middle School in Texas August 12.
King’s College followed the lead of nearby Wilkes University and Luzerne County Community College in arming some of its guards.
A prisoner’s escape from a Virginia hospital has prompted questions about hospital security procedures.
The Mount Wachusett Community College Police Department will begin carrying firearms on campus in 2016.
Research indicates that active shooter incidents like the ones that occurred at Virginia Tech in 2007 and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 prompted universities to arm their sworn law enforcement officers.