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3: What is the Role of the Higher Education Community in Homeland Security?
Pages 5-8

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... In service to the broad community, including concerned citizens, trained specialists, public officials, and the press, the higher education sector should be able to provide factual content concerning homeland security issues that is appropriate to the knowledge needs of the recipient.
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... Susan Cutter discussed the recent denial of public access to geographic data as an example of the trade-offs required when deciding to keep threat-relevant information exclusively within the governmental domain, subject to classification policies, versus sharing that information with the public and with the many private and nonprofit organizations and individuals that need measurement, intelligence, and historical data to prepare predictive models, reinforce infrastructure, design personnel screening systems, and so forth. When facing conventional war, U.S.
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... economy, as well as preclude the positive influence of these visitors on their home countries' perception of, and relations with, the United States.7-10 Controls over the publication of sensitive but unclassified research could further curtail researchers' interest and willingness to pursue work supportive of security goals.11-16 Another issue ripe for public debate emerged in workshop breakout sessions: the broad and often self-destructive social reaction to terrorist provocation. The immediate impact of an attack may be limited in scope, 1American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
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... A complementary issue for collective consideration was the potential for security concerns to overshadow and "crowd out" alternative national imperatives, even those the "security" was intended to protect. Recent psychological research suggests that focusing strongly on a given objective pulls attention away from other objectives.17 This frees individuals and groups to pursue the focal objective without the constraints normally exercised by those alternative objectives.
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