Campus Safety (CS) magazine congratulates the winners of its fourth annual
Campus Safety Director of the Year Awards: David Dougherty, director of security services for Canton, Ohio-based Aultman Hospital; and Michael Parks, director of campus security for Minnesota State University, Moorhead. Both were presented with plaques on March 30 at the Campus Safety Conference, which was held at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif.
The program honors school, university and hospital security administrators and police chiefs who exhibit outstanding leadership and management of their departments. In all, 10 campus security executives were honored during the presentation and reception.
“Our quality of entries gets better every year,” says Executive Editor Robin Hattersley Gray. “It makes it very difficult for the judges to determine a winner, but it also means that our campuses around the nation are in good hands.”
Turning the campus parking deck into a business structure unit helped Dougherty earn the healthcare award. The revenue generated from that venture paid for maintenance, lighting upgrades and the installation of video surveillance equipment.
Parks, the education winner, also had impressive accomplishments. During the Red River flood of 2009, he served as campus incident commander in which he managed 25,000 volunteers, the call center, delivery of 40,000 pounds of food and arranged four housing during the emergency.
Bryan Warren who is the director of corporate security at Carolinas Healthcare System in Charlotte, N.C., was the first runner up in the healthcare division. William H. Adcox, who is chief of police/chief security officer for the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston was second runner up.
For the education division, Bob Roberts, chief of police at West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.V., was first runner up. South Western City Schools’ Safety Project Manager Gary L. Sigrist Jr., was the second runner up.
Complete coverage of both winners’ achievements will appear in the May/June and July/August issues of Campus Safety magazine, as well as at www.CampusSafetyMagazine.com. The May/June and July/August issues and Web site will also include the 2010 entry form and judging criteria, so hospital, school and university police chiefs and directors of public safety are encouraged to begin preparing their applications for the 2010 program.
Additional information on the Campus Safety Director of the Year program as well as a complete list of the finalists can be found at www.CampusSafetyMagazine.com/DirectorOfTheYear.