Announcing the Fab 14 Campus Safety Director of the Year Finalists!
Check out this year’s Director of the Year finalists and the effective methods they use to run their operations.
Alvin Gille
Coordinator of Health, Safety and Security
Great Oaks Career Campuses
Cincinnati, Ohio
Notable Achievements:
- Installed more than 480 security cameras across the campuses and an electronic door locking system, visitor management system and electronic keycard entry system at each campus.
- Integrated its active shooter training with the automated management of lockdown drills.
- Created a “Continuity Group” consisting of FBI officials, local fire and police, Great Oaks IT and communications staff, counselors and administrators to help a campus recover more quickly from a crisis.
Dan Havens
Director of Public Safety and Security
Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Parker, Colo.
Notable Achievements:
- Petitioned for an automatic records management system and security dispatcher, resulting in faster officer response times and more accurate reporting of incidents.
- Upgraded locks at all access points so the campus would remain secure during the event of a power loss.
- Organized and oversaw the largest full-scale mass casualty incident exercise in Colorado to date, involving 14 different agencies.
Johnson Link
Executive Director for Campus Safety/Associate Vice President
Clemson University
Clemson, S.C.
Notable Achievements:
- Installation of a video surveillance system at the school’s football stadium led to the 5X increase in resolutions of criminal investigations of incidents at games.
- Maintains high department morale by recruiting officers from the local area who have a vested interest in the community they will be policing.
- Has increased department operations despite having a smaller budget than his predecessor.
John Ojeisekhoba
Chief of Campus Safety
Biola University
La Mirada, Calif.
Notable Achievements:
- Increased officer retention from an average of 2 years to an average of 5 years.
- Secured funding to increase the current number of video surveillance cameras on campus from 100 to 200.
- Implemented stronger security measures on campus, including perimeter fences; classroom and office door locks that can be locked from the inside; improved facility access control; and the ability to lockdown the campus during emergencies.
Eric Plummer
Associate Vice President for Public Safety/Chief of Police
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, N.D.
Notable Achievements:
- Transformed the relationship between the Police Department and the student community into a relationship built on mutual respect and trust.
- Developed a vehicle assistance program. More than 400 assists were done during the first year of the program.
- Developed a fully functioning 24-hour operations center with building emergency action plans.
Carlos Sanchez
Director of School Safety
Brentwood School District
Brentwood, N.Y.
Notable Achievements:
- To reach out to students, he created a three-on-three basketball tournament with more than 2,000 students participating in the program.
- Saved money, reduced the rate of student truancy and improved visitor management by implementing a bicycle patrol unit.
- Worked with the local police department to create an education program for undocumented students on how to stay safe and not get involved with gangs.
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Robin Hattersley, Editor-in-Chief
Robin has been covering the security and campus law enforcement industries since 1998 and is a specialist in school, university and hospital security, public safety and emergency management, as well as emerging technologies and systems integration. She joined CS in 2005 and has authored award-winning editorial on campus law enforcement and security funding, officer recruitment and retention, access control, IP video, network integration, event management, crime trends, the Clery Act, Title IX compliance, sexual assault, dating abuse, emergency communications, incident management software and more. Robin has been featured on national and local media outlets and was formerly associate editor for the trade publication Security Sales & Integration. She obtained her undergraduate degree in history from California State University, Long Beach.
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