June 29, 2009

During a Campus Crisis, There Is No Substitute for Experience

By Eric Hoover

Baltimore

Fights, suicides, sexual assaults, drug overdoses, and fires. Those are just some of the crises for which colleges prepare. But what matters most when campus officials must respond to such an incident?

Experience, says John Buck, associate dean of students at Webster University, in Missouri. At the annual conference of the Association of College & University Housing Officers—International here on Sunday, Mr. Buck presented findings from his research on how campus housing

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