Maureen Rush, recently retired Vice President for Public Safety and Superintendent of Police at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses her career in law enforcement and how to avoid burnout in the security field.
Kinamo Lomon, who has over twenty years of law enforcement experience, has been named the Director of Operations for Princeton University's Department of Public Safety.
The Behavioral Health Crisis Support Team (BHCST) pairs public safety officers with mental health clinicians to respond to behavioral health crises on Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus.
Terri Stewart, an experienced higher education security leader, will begin her new role as Director of Campus Safety at Colgate University in January 2022.
Existing partnerships between mental health professionals and local police forces have reduced emergency hospital admissions by around 80%, according to the Canadian Mental Health Association of Waterloo-Wellington Director of Services Jeff Stanlick.
The Manchester SafeZone Alliance, the first of its kind in the U.K., connects security teams from three area universities to provide a larger, reciprocal safety zone for students on all participating campuses.