Texas Professors Will Learn to Like Guns. Or Else (Bloomberg)

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11. Guns on campus overview (National Conference of State Legislatures | 31 May 2016)

... 18 states .. ban carrying a concealed weapon on a college campus ... In 23 states the decision to ban or allow concealed carry weapons on campuses is made by each college or university individually ... Because of recent state legislation and court rulings, eight states now have provisions allowing the carrying of concealed weapons on public postsecondary campuses. These states are Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin ...

Utah remains the only state to have statute specifically naming public colleges and universities as public entities that do not have the authority to ban concealed carry ... Recently passed Kansas legislation creates a provision that colleges and universities cannot prohibit concealed carry unless a building has "adequate security measures" ... Wisconsin legislation creates a provision that colleges and universities must allow concealed carry on campus grounds. Campuses can, however, prohibit weapons from campus buildings if signs are posted at every entrance explicitly stating that weapons are prohibited. All University of Wisconsin system campuses and technical community college districts are said to be putting this signage in place. Legislation passed in Mississippi in 2011 creates an exception to allow concealed carry on college campuses for those who have taken a voluntary course on safe handling and use of firearms by a certified instructor ...

... In March 2012, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the University of Colorado’s policy banning guns from campus violates the state’s concealed carry law, and in 2011 the Oregon Court of Appeals overturned the Oregon University System’s ban of guns on campuses, allowing those with permits to carry concealed guns on the grounds of these public colleges (Oregon's State Board of Higher Education retained its authority to have internal policies for certain areas of campus, and adopted a new policy in 2012 that bans guns in campus buildings) ...

http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/guns-on-campus-overview.aspx