Active shooter, a term we hear too often on campuses across our great nation. It’s a student, parent, administrator, faculty, and community member’s worst nightmare come true. Someone entered campus with a loaded gun, has a goal, and wreaks violent and merciless havoc on innocent victims. It has become a growing epidemic as well as a growing concern for school administration, faculty and students, as well as law enforcement. The need for an active shooter emergency plan is at an all-time high. There must be a plan to prevent, mitigate, respond to and recover from an extremist incident, as we have seen in recent and not-so-recent history. For the College of Coastal Georgia and colleges, below is a plan to prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from an extremist incident. The prevention plan should begin with the needs and requirements to protect the school, students, administration and faculty. . There are different ways to plan, one of which may be to determine what possible targets are. Is it the dean of students, financial aid, the registrar's office, a minority student group, a professor, an activist, or a religious group? Determining who the potential target(s) are is the first step. What would be the reason? Is it religiously motivated, state-sponsored, or politically motivated? These are questions that the prevention team and campus police should think about. There are also needs and requirements that can be implemented physically and socially, by administration, faculty, and students. These needs and requirements are found in the Twenty-five Situational Prevention Techniques. Here are some examples of possible techniques that can be used to prevent a... middle of paper ... potentially protecting the administration, faculty, and students, while minimizing losses or even reducing the number of casualties. Works Cited (04/08/2014) Retrieved from www.dhs.gov/active-shooter-preparednessMatthew Harwood (08/10/2012) Researchers propose new solution for active shooter mitigation, retrieved from http:// www.securitymanagement.com /news/researchers-offer-new-solution-active-shooter-mitigation-0010209http://www.dhs.gov/active-shooter-preparednessKatherine W. Schweit, JD (5/7/2013) Address the Active Shooter Problem, retrieved from http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/law-enforcement-bulletin/2013/May/active-shooterNow Is The Time: The President's Plan to Protect Our Children and our communities by reducing gun violence,” retrieved from http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/wh_now_is_the_time_full.pdf