It Could Happen Here: True Incidents from College Campuses

Over the past several decades, American campuses have experienced a number of incidents that fundamentally changed the way universities approach safety and emergency management. These incidents range from targeted acts of violence and mass shootings to sexual assaults, hazing deaths, laboratory accidents, riots, and infrastructure failures. Each event has forced institutions to confront the same unsettling question: How could this happen here?This book begins with a different premise – It Could Happen Here.The chapters that follow explore the stories of campuses that confronted this reality firsthand. Their experiences reveal the consequences of failure, the resilience of communities in crisis, and the ongoing effort to ensure that the lessons of the past are not lost while buried in a binder or an email subfolder.Because history does not repeat itself automatically, it repeats itself when we fail to remember. Read more