MH&A In the News

MH&A Managing Partner Steven J. Healy facilitated the opening plenary session of the 2010 APPA Conference. Titled “Moving Past Tragedy,” the session explored some of the most historic campus tragedies in the last 20 years in order to learn from the experiences. APPA (formerly the Association of Physical Plant Administrators) is the association of choice serving educational facilities professionals. An international association dedicated to maintaining, protecting, and promoting the quality of educational facilities, APPA represents more than 1,500 learning institutions serving over 4,700 individuals. APPA’s membership includes facilities professionals from public and private, two-year and four-year colleges and universities; medical and law schools; seminaries; public and private K-12 schools and districts; museums and parks; military installations; federal, state, and city-county governments.

Staff from The University of Texas-Pan American and other area higher education institutions had an opportunity to learn more about compliance with federal regulations regarding the monitoring and disclosure of crime statistics on campus during a training session conducted June 29 at UTPA.

MH&A Associate Kimberly Novak is at the campus of SUNY - Geneseo in Rochester, NY the week of June 7, 2010 to facilitate the 2010 Novak Institute for Hazing Prevention, formerly known as the Interdisciplinary Institute for Hazing Intervention. The Institute brings together nearly six dozen undergrads, national fraternity/sorority leadership, student conduct professionals, student activities professionals, police officials, risk managers, senior student affairs administrators,  advising professionals, and housing staff for a week of programming and facilitated discussions on the serious problems involving hazing on college campuses.

MH&A Managing Partner, Dr. Gary J. Margolis, will be moderating a webinar on behavioral threat assessment for the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) on Thursday, June 3, 2010 from 12PM - 2PM (EST).

Statistics continue to show that college and university campuses are among the safest environments in the country. Nonetheless, violent crime does occur on and near college campuses every year and recent events in particular have focused attention on campus crime and the responsibility of college officials to assess and potentially predict the threat of violence by members of the campus community. Threat assessment teams play a critical role in an institution’s ability to determine if an individual poses, or may reasonably pose, a threat of violence and to intervene to avert the threat and maintain the safety of the situation. Panelists include NACUA member Linda Schutjer, Senior Associate Legal Counsel for the Colorado State University System, Dr. Jeff Pollard, Director of George Mason University’s Counseling and Psychological Services Center, and Lianne Tuomey, Chief of Police for the University of Vermont. Presented in conjunction with KRM Information Services.

http://www.nacua.org/meetings/virtualseminars/june2010/home.html

Dr. Margolis will be in Philadelphia, PA from May 24 - 26 as a member of the faculty of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, National Law Enforcement Leadership Institute on Violence Against Women.  Funded by the US Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), the Institute provides leadership education for senior police leaders on crimes of violence against women that include stalking, sexual assault, human trafficking and domestic violence.  Dr. Margolis is a founding faculty member and is involved in the Trainer Development Program also managed by the IACP under the OVW grant.

Steven Healy, MH&A Managing Partner, will be an instructor at the 2010 Clery Act training presented by Security On Campus, Inc. in partnership with the University of Massachusetts Police Department on June 3-4, 2010