Campus Safety is pleased to announce the 2024 higher education and healthcare Director of the Year finalists. Being named a finalist is no easy feat. Just look at some of what this year’s finalists have accomplished:
Winners of this year’s Director of the Year awards will be announced at the 2024 Campus Safety Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, taking place July 8-10. To register, visit CampusSafetyConference.com.
- Reduced vehicular crime to zero with the installation of video surveillance and license plate recognition technology.
- Increased officer pay by more than 26%.
- Created a diversity, equity, and inclusion task force.
- Decreased security operations center false alarms by 40%.
- Hired mental health clinicians to ride along with officers.
This is just a sampling of what some of this year’s higher education and healthcare finalists achieved. Be sure to click on their profiles and photos below to see what else they’ve done to deserve this recognition.
The Higher Education and Healthcare Campus Safety Director of the Year Finalists Are…
- William Adcox, Vice President, Chief of Police, and Chief Security Officer, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas: View his profile, achievements, and photos.
- Christopher Buckley, Director of Campus Safety, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire: View his profile, achievements, and photos.
- Jerry Connolly, Chief of Police, Florida SouthWestern State College, Fort Myers, Florida: View his profile, achievements, and photos.
- Ethan Johnson, Chief of Police, Coastal Pines Technical College, Waycross, Georgia: View his profile, achievements, and photos.
- Thomas Leone, Assistant Vice President of Public Safety/Chief of Police, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland: View his profile, achievements, and photos.
- John Marcus, Director of Emergency Management, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont: View his profile, achievements, and photos.
- Mark Reed, Director of Campus Support Operations, City of Hope, Duarte, California: View his profile, achievements, and photos.
- Linda Stump-Kurnick, Assistant Vice President and Chief of Police, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida: View her profile, achievements, and photos.
Winners of this year’s Director of the Year awards will be announced at this summer’s 2024 Campus Safety Conference, taking place in Atlanta, Georgia, July 8-10. For more information and to register, visit CampusSafetyConference.com.
Congratulations to all of our finalists. May the best director win!
Want to read about the K-12 school/district Director of the Year finalists? Click here.
