Posts Tagged ‘strategies for keeping college campuses safe’
March 9 - Winning Students’ Hearts and Minds the Latest Campus Safety Approach
By: Bonnie Snyder in Effective Classroom Management
Campus security is not normally an issue that is discussed in conjunction with faculty members. Typically, campus safety is relegated to the purview of administrators and campus police. Few professors receive substantial training on ways to enhance campus safety through what occurs in their classrooms. This view needs to change in order to respond to current realities and to incorporate the recommendations of the latest research on campus safety.
January 25 - What Faculty Must Know About Campus Security
By: Mary Bart in White Papers
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. This white paper explains methods for fostering essential relationships between professors and students.
March 8 - Recognizing and Managing Student Aggression
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
Consider the following scenario: A student, clearly upset about receiving a failing grade on the midterm, comes up to you after class and says he wants to retake it. You reply that, as stated in the syllabus, there are no make-up exams. You also remind him of his spotty attendance record. He becomes angry, knocks your papers off the front table, and yells “You’re a terrible professor! The whole class hates you!”
December 17 - Identifying and Managing Classroom Aggression and Violence
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
This video seminar features relevant case studies and examples of how to manage aggression and prevent violence in the classroom. You will learn strategies for handling different types of aggressors, ranging from “the sniper” and “the Sherman tank” to “the exploder” and “the bulldozer.”
March 3 - Learn How to Recognize Red-Flag Behaviors on Campus
By: Mary Bart in Faculty Development, Trends in Higher Education
A new online course designed to help higher education faculty and staff recognize and mitigate disruptive and potentially dangerous student behavior is now available from Magna Publications. The six-part course, Campus Safety 101, focuses on “the four D’s” of concerning behavior — distressed, disturbed, dysregulated and medical disability-based behavior — and how early and effective
December 29 - Campus Safety Strategies for Community Colleges
By: Mary Bart in Uncategorized
Campus tragedies, like those at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University, served as a wake-up call for the need to refocus efforts and attention to campus safety issues, and the role that everyone plays in recognizing potential red flag behaviors among students and others on campus.
