BACKGROUND
Under the direction of Interim President Gregory L. Eastwood, M.D., Case Western Reserve University established a special security task force “to review our university-wide crisis systems, to inform our community of appropriate response and, if necessary, to develop additional means to improve safety while continuing to enhance the spirit of an academic campus.”
This task force, created in the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy in the spring of 2007, assigned sub-committees to focus on specific key areas.
Part of the task force’s charge to its Communications Sub-committee was to investigate the means and methods to provide “rapid, accurate communication to the university community during a major emergency.”