Trigger Warnings: From Sword Fights to Campus Carry in Higher Education

Surviving campus carry: A CRT analysis of faculty of color at a Texas public PWI.

“…individual right that cannot be infringed on by state and local governments which includes public higher education (Melear & St. Louis, 2015;Miller, 2011;Smith, 2012;Wasserman, 2011). Though research on campus carry legislation has expanded over the years, how campus carry has impacted minoritized communities has remained limited (Ewing, 2017;Hassett et al, 2020;Somers & Valentine, 2021). Some empirical studies on campus carry policies have explored the perceptions of students (Bouffard et al, 2012;Brinker, 2008;Cavanaugh et al, 2012;Eaves et al, 2015;Jang et al, 2014;Kruis et al, 2020;Patten et al, 2013;Schildkraut et al, 2018;Thompson et al, 2013;Verrecchia & Hendrix, 2018); faculty (Bennett et al, 2012;Dahl et al, 2016;Drew, 2017;Jones & Horan, 2019;Somers et al, 2017;Thompson et al, 2012;Wolcott, 2017), and campus professionals and leaders such as advisors, campus police chiefs, and college presidents (Bartula & Bowen, 2015;Price et al, 2014Price et al, , 2016Somers et al, 2020;Thompson et al, 2009).…”