Feature Story

September 23, 2007

U.S. Department of Education Awards More Than $960,000 Grant to Virginia Tech

From Education Newsfeed:

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools has awarded Virginia Tech a $960,685 grant to assist with ongoing recovery efforts on campus, as well as to help develop a model for assessing and responding to at-risk behaviors in a higher education setting. In April 2007, Virginia Tech, a public land-grant university in Blacksburg, Va., was victim to the most deadly campus-based shooting in U.S. history. A 23-year-old student shot and killed 32 members of the Virginia Tech community, including himself, and physically injured 27 additional people. Read more from this post.