News 14 Carolina's Kate Gaier is at Johnson C. Smith University with more on school security.
Find out where UNC and Duke rank in a recent list of safe campuses.
CHARLOTTE -- A deadly shooting Thursday at Northern Illinois University has college campuses across the country taking another look at security.
Johnson C. Smith University purchased an emergency alert notification system following the Virginia Tech shootings and tested it in December. The alarm system emits a loud siren that officials say can be heard throughout campus and the surrounding community.
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte also has safety measures in place. In June, it spent a quarter of a million dollars to beef up campus security.
Emergency call boxes can be found throughout the UNCC campus.
Duke University and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill both find themselves toward the bottom of a new Reader’s Digest list on campus safety that ranked nearly 300 schools. According to the report, UNC has the 13th most serious and Duke the 42nd most serious crime problems. The magazine did weigh heavily on violent crime, even if those crimes did not involve students.
Reader's Digest said that the rankings are not a firm guide into the overall school safety and officials from both schools voiced doubts in the methods of how the magazine got the information.
Officials from across the state met about a month ago in Raleigh to discuss school safety and campuses across the country will once again be visiting the topic Friday.