"All of us who work with students need to be better trained and be able to identify concerns, or just to trust your intuition," she said.
Communication and awareness are the two main lessons Ohio colleges and universities have taken away from what happened at Virginia Tech, said Rick Amweg, director of campus safety and security for the Ohio Board of Regents.
A year ago, Amweg was Ohio State's assistant police chief. He was appointed to his current position after a statewide task force found a need for oversight of emergency preparedness at Ohio colleges. He's helping colleges take part in trainings and develop mass-communication systems.
The shooting at Northern Illinois University, in which a gunman killed five students and himself on Feb. 14, drove home the idea that the Virginia Tech massacre was not an isolated incident, Amweg said.
"Right on the heels of Virginia Tech, when everybody said, 'That's amazing, could it happen here?' along comes NIU," he said.
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