What Faculty Must Know About Campus Security

Good teaching and campus security go hand in hand.

• The most effective faculty members develop close, personal relationships with their students.
• As trusted mentors, professors deliver instruction and offer guidance...
• But they also listen closely to what their students are saying...
• It’s a two-way street.

With these lines of communication open, faculty members are likely to be among the first to hear of students in crisis and to alert other campus officials of developing problem situations. This early monitoring allows students in crisis to receive the intervention necessary to manage their behaviors and function successfully.

By creating a campus climate that allows frequent and meaningful faculty-student interaction, you greatly increase the odds that students in need of assistance will be recognized early enough to prevent major problems—or even violence—from occurring at your school.

In this way, everyone’s safety and security are preserved and the maximum number of students can achieve success and go on to lead productive lives.

In this Magna Publications White Paper, What Faculty Must Know About Campus Security, you will learn methods for fostering essential safety-enhancing relationships between professors and students.

This exclusive Campus Security White Paper covers:

• The unique role of faculty members in campus security
• When faculty members should make referrals of troubled students
• Problems with existing screening efforts
• The limitations of profiling and campus safety
• Managing suicidal students
• The proper role and involvement of campus police
• Collecting information on a troubled student from multiple sources
• The link between rampage shootings and suicide
• The role of mentoring in preventing possible violence
• Eliminating unofficial “codes of silence” among students
• Why “high-touch” security measures are most effective
• Enforcing behavioral standards despite disability laws and accommodations

This White Paper draws from numerous national reports on campus safety and includes a list of recommended resources.

This White Paper is intended for faculty members and those who advise and train them:

• Academic Administrators
• Department chairs
• Deans
• Assistant, Associate, and Full Professors
• Campus safety
• Judicial affairs

What Faculty Must Know About Campus Security is based on a Magna Online Seminar originally presented by Gary Pavela. Pavela writes law and policy newsletters to which more than 1,000 colleges and universities nationwide subscribe. He has been active for more than 30 years in managing discipline and student conduct in higher education. Gary Pavela was a consultant to the Governor’s Task Force on Campus Safety for the state of Wisconsin and spoke to Virginia Tech faculty and staff at the July 2007 symposium for managing at-risk students, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. 

Faculty members are the first line of defense in keeping your campus safe. Learn how your faculty members can simultaneously improve their teaching effectiveness while safeguarding the entire college community in What Faculty Must Know About Campus Security: A Magna Publications White Paper.

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