Old Dominion University is confronting a campus safety and governance crisis after a deadly shooting in a business‑school classroom that left a professor dead and the shooter—reported to have a prior conviction for trying to support ISIS—also dead. The FBI is investigating the incident as potential terrorism. The tragedy has compounded existing tensions: faculty members voted no confidence over a separate administrative plan to shorten courses, signaling deep distrust between faculty and leadership. University leaders must now manage a criminal investigation, support traumatized students and staff, and navigate faculty unrest while balancing curricular decisions and public scrutiny.