Campus Agencies Research Articles

Consider campus culture, relationship building when reviewing use‐of‐force policies

Recent events like the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have resulted in a reassessment of the limits of law enforcement power, especially in terms of the reasonable use of force. And campus law enforcement agencies are not exempt from these discussions. However, proactive strategies and a renewed focus on community‐oriented policing have helped many campus agencies stave off the most disruptive dynamics that are rippling through law enforcement today. While COVID‐19 has put some initiatives on pause (and reduced the on‐campus student population), careful consideration of the use of force by campus law enforcement is continuing.

Best practices for campus agency recruitment

In recent years, law enforcement in general has experienced a recruiting crisis. The combination of negative public perceptions of police work and low unemployment numbers means agencies large and small are competing for a dwindling pool of qualified and interested candidates. This crisis has not spared college and university police departments. However, campus agencies may be well‐positioned to overcome these challenges through a proactive recruitment strategy emphasizing community policing and the unique benefits available to officers.

Career Problems Among Help-Seekers in the United States - An Integrative Approach -

The current research sought to examine further the integration of career and non-career domains by studying the career problems of 307 help-seekers from three campus agencies (counseling center, academic skills center, career center) at a large eastern university in the United States. Career problems, in turn, were studied in relation to psychodynamic antecedents (i.e., early attachments and self development) and psychological adjustment (i.e., academic, affective, self, interpersonal). Our findings indicated that career problems coexisted with mental health and academic problems for all help-seekers, thereby suggesting the importance of understanding their interrelationships for career theory and interventions. Additionally, attachment processes and problems in the development of the self were related to career difficulties. The implications of these findings for the practice of career counseling are discussed.

From Hanging Files to Digital Collection: Growing a Controlled Vocabulary for Added Functionality in the Online World

ABSTRACT The Campus Images Collection at the University of Nevada, Reno, a CONTENTdm database, is the product of a collaboration between the University Libraries and various campus agencies that hold current or historical images of the UNR campus. This article explores the development and design of this database, and how the descriptive metadata fields were tailored to meet the needs of different agencies involved. In particular, the author discusses how an old indexing system–used in the past for the organization of print photographs into topical hanging files–was transformed into a set of controlled vocabularies that could be used in Dublin Core metadata fields in CONTENTdm.

University Career Service and Social Justice

This article describes the social justice activities facilitated by a university careers service. The article includes a discussion on the relationship between social justice and career development in higher education. Working examples of the activities provided by the career service focus on the delivery of career-related services to students who are represented by the major equity groups identified within the Australian higher education sector The importance of theoretically informed practice and collaboration between campus agencies is emphasised as a means of achieving social justice outcomes.

Variability in the organizational structure of contemporary campus law enforcement agencies

Descriptive analyses of campus police agencies reveal that agencies’ tactical and operational features are similar to those found in municipal agencies. The problem is that none of these studies have examined, using multivariate models, the structural characteristics of these organizations. Using LEMAS data collected in 1995, this study answered two main questions: what are the organizational characteristics of campus police agencies; and what factors, both internal and external, explain variation in the structural dimensions of the agencies. The results indicated that campus police agencies possess the same structural characteristics of municipal police agencies identified by 40 years of police organizational research, and internal agency characteristics were most important in explaining variation in the organizations’ structural dimensions. The degree to which campus agencies have adopted organizational structures that are similar to those of municipal police is discussed and framed within an institutional perspective.

Cultivating Partnerships/Realizing Diversity

Summary Academic librarians should not only seek methods for continuous learning about an increasingly diverse college student body, they are encouraged to pursue partnerships with campus agencies that work directly with students, especially those charged with building a diverse community of students. The authors present two examples to illustrate Strategies-in-action.

Exposure to hazardous chemical substances--a major campus environmental health & safety concern.

Abstract A broad spectrum of potentially hazardous chemicals offers serious exposure risks to members of a college or university community. Among others, these include: organophosphates in greenhouses, carbon monoxide in ice skating rinks, silica in art departments, mercury in laboratories and dental operatories, carcinogens in chemistry laboratories, asbestos fibers in classroom ceilings and pipe insulation, and toluene in scintillation fluid. A formal program directed at the recognition, evaluation, and control of hazardous chemical substances is needed to minimize exposure to these substances and maintain a prevention-oriented protective program. The University of Massachusetts (UMass) Health Services' Division of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) has been involved in the development and implementation of such a program with particular emphasis on environmental monitoring and coordination with other campus agencies with regard to medical monitoring, use of personal protective equipment, engineerin...

Cultivating Social Motives

(1937). Cultivating Social Motives. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 321-328.