The recent emergencies on college campuses including the Virginia Tech massacre of April, 2007, the Northern Illinois University shootings and the Union University tornado highlight the importance of disaster preparedness within the university community. This study is a survey exploring the daily rhythms of student life, the communication channels open to students and students composition and characteristics. This survey finds that students have frequent access to communication technologies which can be utilized as warning channels. The study also concludes that many students do not actively seek out information relative to emergency preparedness and the gaps in the populations knowledge require increased disaster education by the university.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UNC_CH/oai:etd.ils.unc.edu:1901/539 |
| Date | 25 April 1908 |
| Creators | Timothy D'arcy Baldwin |
| Contributors | Stephanie Haas |
| Publisher | School of Information and Library Science |
| Source Sets | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Theses and Dissertations |
| Format | application/pdf, 1482032 bytes, application/pdf |
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