The school board in San Francisco, California, recently voted to levy a special tax to residents for covering upgrades to improve school safety from seismic activity.
Some schools may see an increase in students skipping class, or even pulling fire alarms or calling in bomb threats due to warm weather and the approaching end of the school year.
While many colleges focus campus safety efforts on man-made crises such as bomb threats or arson, natural disasters can be just as devastating, or even more so depending on the situation.
In any emergency situation, a college campus may lose power. In these instances, common crisis communication methods, such as email or website alerts, may be unavailable for students to gather information.
A rare March snowstorm in Arizona and New Mexico closed about 180 miles of I-40 on Sunday, March 18, causing power loss for tens of thousands and prompting schools to cancel across parts of both states.
Many students who are sexual assaulted on college campuses do not report the crimes, resulting in slower response times and an overall decrease in campus safety.
