Making Your Campus Safer: Preparing for the Foreseen and Unforeseen Crises
An essential factor in providing excellence in education is the ability to create an atmosphere that is conducive to learning and to be prepared for crises that have the potential to disrupt the learning environment. This desired condition doesn’t always happen without planning and practice. On the contrary, given the increased frequency of large-scale incidents such as shootings, weather-related incidents and reactions to domestic and international events, campuses must create systems, structures, and practices to be prepared for crises seen and unforeseen.
Learning Outcomes
1) Understand the situation and build situational awareness,
2) Articulate the essential elements of a response structure,
2) Identify Typical roles that people play during a crisis,
3) Understand Involvement of state and local officials impact on response structure,
Dr. Kevin Bailey
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
University of North Carolina Charlotte
“Bailey,” as he prefers to be called, has been a leader through several campus crises including COVID-19, a campus shooting that led to 2 fatalities and 4 wounded, nooses on campus, and Hurricane Katrina. He co-authored a chapter in Campus crisis management: A comprehensive guide to planning, prevention, response, and recovery. He was the subject of a two-part video series produced by IUP-TV entitled “The Tulane University Experience withL Katrina: Crisis Management and eadership.” An article in Student Affairs Today featured lessons learned by Bailey from leading during difficult times.
Jerusha Kasch
Director of Institutional Crisis Management
Rice University
Jerusha Kasch has served as Director of Institutional Crisis Management at Rice University since 2017. In addition to 15 years of experience as an emergency manager, Jerusha worked 17 years in multiple response systems including, EMS, law enforcement, hospitals, and clinical care.
She is a Certified Emergency Manager (International Association of Emergency Managers) and a certified FEMA NIMS instructor and Incident Management Team member. She has filled nearly all ICS command and general staff roles in incident response.
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