The Campus Safety Conference Emergency Management Best Practices Panel discussion will include three university officials who will provide case studies on how their individual institutions are approaching emergency management. The workshop will take place April 27, 10:15 a.m. – noon and will feature the following experts:
- Dr. Dennie Templeton, Executive Director of Distance Education and Emergency Preparedness at Radford University
- Bob Roberts, Chief of Police, West Virginia University
- Gerald Robert Harkins, Associate Vice President, Campus Safety and Security, the University of Texas at Austin
Templeton will specifically address how Radford University handled a nearby shooting that occurred April 2, and how the drills his university had recently conducted helped improve the institution’s response.
The panel, which will be moderated by Campus Safety Executive Editor Robin Hattersley Gray, will also cover:
- Working with outside agencies
- Facility-specific emergency planning
- Creating an emergency planning unit from scratch
- Developing plans for business continuity, infectious diseases and severe weather
For additional information on this panel, as well as the entire Campus Safety Conference, which will take place April 26-28 in Tampa, Fla., please visit www.CampusSafetyConference.com or call (800) 576-8788.
