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Mexican Universities Recommend New Campus-Security Measures

April 15, 2011, 2:21 pm

The rectors of Mexico’s main public and private universities have approved a long-awaited list of security recommendations to help institutions protect their students and faculty member from the drug violence plaguing large sections of the country, reports El Universal, a Spanish-language newspaper. The recommendations are due to be presented Friday to the National Association of Universities and Higher-Education Institutions, whose members include the 42 public universities and the top private ones.  The list offers eight sets of recommendations, including restricting access to campuses to students and faculty members; increasing campus security; and implementing security drills for students in case of a shootout between traffickers and police.

The rectors also plan to request help from the federal Public Safety Secretariat in training campus security officers. The security recommendations come a year after two graduate students were shot dead at the gates of the private Monterrey Institute of Technology and Superior Studies, in the northern industrial city of Monterrey.

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  • iris411

    I’m sorry to hear that.

  • iris411

    Things like this remind us that we still need to find a way to co-exist with all creatures dwelling on the earth.

  • facdevniu

    So, what happend to the rat?

  • kajohnson

    was it from Mexico or the US?

  • http://who-will-kiss-the-pig.blogspot.com Richard Grayson

    Lots of people applying to jobs are young, and they are not always sure of what they want at the time of application.  I don’t think you should be overly harsh and critical of someone who may make a mistake in applying to someplace they may have reservations about.  Sometimes you may have to go on the interview, as that author did, to learn about your own feelings.  People are human.

    I would have liked you to make a stronger connection with Twenge’s book, which I read a year or two ago.  As someone who is now 60, a part of me wanted to agree with her conclusion about today’s young adults, and some of it resonated with me, but lot of critics have questioned and refuted some of her methods and interpretations.  (For example, see http://www.youthfacts.org/twenge.html  ).

  • minnesotan

    “I have had these opportunities because my institution is amply resourced
    and because, as a matter of principal, we support faculty and staff
    travel”

    For the second time this week, I say: “To whom should I address my cover letter and cv?”

    Maybe the coming job hunt is making me crazy, or maybe I’m just over-eager to land a job, but people drive me nuts around here when they keep bashing the profession and the institutions they wouldn’t deign to work at. Or, worse yet, blaming the hicks, or the snobs, or the racists, or the sexists for the horrible interview they had, despite having walked into the meeting with a giant chip on their shoulder.

    Well, I say just give me a shot — I’ll work my butt off for a T-T position, and I’ll keep my newbie mouth shut for the first year or two, until I learn the culture!

  • nyhist

    This is what I tell my graduate students. Be clear about what you want and where you will go for a job when you first apply. Don’t apply where you are sure from the outset you will never go; on the other hand, keep an open mind. You’ll never know what you might like about a place. One of my former students initially hated his first job and spent his first years trying to get out. He never succeeded. Eventually he became chair of his dept and hired lots of people he liked. Now he is extremely happy and well settled there.

    “as a matter of principal”? That’s the sort of thing I cringe at when I see my students do it. I assume the point here is a principled one, not one of primacy.

  • prairiechick

    We have a generation of young adults who grew up during the “time of plenty” in the 1990s when the economy made it look like everything was possible and no one should have to sacrifice.  Fast forward to 2011…everyone has to compromise somewhere.  If they didn’t develop the tools to cope with such resource (and job) shortages during their formative years, it shouldn’t be a surprise that having the expectation of getting the “perfect” job right out of the gate will set them up for disappointment given the present tight times.

    I really don’t think this phenomenon is restricted to education. It
    seems vaguely reminiscent of the lessons learned on weekly television by the “virgins” as they shop for their first “dream homes”.  To continue the analogy, like other starry-eyed “virgins”, new job seekers will have to adjust and realize that they can’t buy the penthouse on the lake and still expect to pay for groceries.  This is going to be a harder lessen to learn for some than it is for others.  I think it will be important for potential young faculty to think first about what they ARE willing to do, rather than what they are not going to put up with.  The change of perspective will serve them well.

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