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AUCSO set to expand global reach and encourage greater collaboration between university security teams
The Association of University Chief Security Officers (AUCSO
) has announced plans to increase its global reach, and to expand its range of services and benefits for members as a new leadership team takes charge.
Les Allen, Chairman of AUCSO
The association, whose membership already includes security staff at 228 higher education institutions worldwide, is targeting significant expansion in the Americas, the Middle East, and South East Asia.
The development plans were confirmed today as Les Allan takes over as the new Chairman, and Ollie Curran becomes Vice-Chairman.
Oliver Curran loves to talk. To him, watching news about politics or chatting with his mom is more fun than playing with toy trucks.
As much as he loves talking, Oliver, 12, can’t read, his mother, Nancy Curran, said. Curran brought her concern to Oliver’s special education team at Coonley Elementary School in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood, but instructors told her Oliver just needed more time, she said.
That was more than a year ago, Curran said.
Now, with Oliver attending school virtually due to the pandemic, Curran has noticed other students are already reading in her son’s seventh-grade class of fellow special education students.