A 'Crucial Conversation' on School Shootings

The College of Education kicks off a new series Tuesday with BASD Superintendent Joseph Roy and psychologist Peter Langman.

Lehigh University in snow

The College of Education will kick off its Crucial Conversations Series Tuesday, March 5, with a focus on school shootings, featuring a dialog between Bethlehem Area School Superintendent Joseph Roy ’09 Ph.D. and psychologist and author Peter Langman ’00 Ph.D.

Nicole Johnson, professor of counseling psychology, will moderate.

The event, which will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in Packard 101 auditorium, is free and open to the public.

Roy is an expert in school leadership. He is a former member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for Lehigh’s College of Education, and he was named the 2017 Pennsylvania Superintendent of the Year.

Langman has studied school shootings around the world, and he has evaluated those considered a serious risk. He has authored several books, including School Shooters: Understanding High School, College and Adult Perpetrators.

The two have previously discussed the issue of school shootings at length in a Q&A, including how to assess a threat. The conversation can be found here.
 

Related Stories

Stephen Tang

Stephen S. Tang ’85G ’88 Ph.D. ’22P to Deliver Remarks at Lehigh’s Graduate Commencement and Doctoral Hooding Ceremony

Tang is the principal at Tangent2Cogent, board chairman of NowDiagnostics Inc., and former chairman, president and CEO of Orasure Technologies, a global medical diagnostics company.

man intervenes in protest between two people from opposing sides

New Study on Psychology of Blame Points to Promising Strategies for Reducing Animosity in Political Divides

The study by Psychology Professor Michael Gill and Raihan Alam ’23 shows partisan animosity can be reduced by a historicist thinking intervention.

alumni in Tanzania

Greetings from Tanzania!

The popularity of the Alumni Travel Program illustrates the uptick in alumni engagement.