BY SILAS ALLEN sallen@opubco.com
A new task force will look at emergency preparedness on Oklahoma's college and university campuses.
The Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education voted Thursday to establish the task force, which officials say will include college and university presidents as well as representatives from a number of law enforcement agencies and the Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security.
Higher education officials have been discussing the idea of creating the task force for several months, higher education Chancellor Glen Johnson said.
Those conversations took on more urgency after the recent gun massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 children and six others dead, Johnson said.
The board formed a similar task force in 2007, in the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting that left 33 dead, including the shooter.
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