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Teaching After Umpqua

Faculty members at Umpqua Community College embraced upon their return to the campus several days after the shootings.
Faculty members at Umpqua Community College embraced upon their return to the campus several days after the shootings.John Locher, AP Images

Three faculty members from across the country share their thoughts in the wake of the Oregon shootings.

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The Review
Don’t Make Me Part of Your Gun Culture
By Linda Van Ingen
A historian facing active-shooter defense training resents how the burden of violence is being placed on educators.
The Review
How Fear Might Affect Grades
By Margaret Olin
An instructor wonders whether the likelihood of concealed guns in her classroom would make her go easy on certain students.
Faculty members at Umpqua Community College embraced upon their return to the campus several days after the shootings.
The Review
Finding a Way Forward, Together
By Cody T. Luff
Students are scared of more shootings, an instructor writes. He’s not sure how to reassure them, but talking about it can only help.
Bathroom-wall graffiti that threatened to "kill all by 10-8-15" prompted Eastern Kentucky U. to shut down its campus this past week — one of several such threats on campuses across the country that few leaders felt could be written off as hoaxes.
Campus Safety
After Killings in Oregon, Colleges Face Threats — and Take No Chances
By Katherine Mangan
This past week several campuses learned of online posts or bathroom-wall graffiti that threatened violence. Almost all of them went on high alert.
Two faculty members embrace as they return to Umpqua Community College days after a classroom shooting that claimed the lives of eight students and a professor.
Faculty
As Campus Gun Violence Increases, So Do Professors’ Fears
By Beth McMurtrie
Gallows humor masks feelings of helplessness and anger as faculty members speculate on the grim probability of more classroom shootings.
The U. of Texas at Austin, like other institutions across the state, is sorting out the details of how to comply with legislation that, starting next fall, will allow concealed handguns on their campuses. Above, a protest on the flagship's campus.
Campus Safety
A University Debates How to Carry Out a Divisive Guns-on-Campus Law
By Katherine Mangan
The University of Texas at Austin is trying to comply with legislation that many people there fear will make the institution less safe.
A protest last fall at the U. of Texas at Austin.
Commentary
Stop Worrying About Guns in the Classroom. They’re Already Here.
By Erik Gilbert
People who fear the prospect of legal, concealed weapons on campuses are being just as irrational as those who refuse to leave the house unarmed.
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