Behavioral Intervention:
- Facilitate student growth and accountability through behavioral interventions, restorative justice practices, mediation, and problem-solving.
- Support individuals and groups in navigating personal concerns, academic challenges, and behavioral issues, including hazing and residence hall policy violations, by fostering reflection, repairing harm, and connecting students to appropriate resources.
- Provide support and guidance to staff who are intervening in behavioral incidents and conducting student behavioral interventions directly.
- Interact with students through one-on-one meetings, meetings with groups or communities, and through formal conduct meetings.
- Conduct prompt, thorough, and equitable investigations, and adjudications into allegations of student violations of university policy and determine appropriate educational sanctions and follow up.
- Assess need for and coordinate interim measures as necessary, including no-contact orders, university trespasses, adjustment to work/class schedules, and temporary housing assignments.
- Review and process investigative reports related to civil rights discrimination grievance and Title IX complaints involving students, including potential to serve as student conduct officer or chair for discrimination grievance and Title IX formal hearings.
- Handle complex situations, including responding to victims of trauma in a sensitive and informed manner, manage multiple cases, meet various deadlines, maintain neutrality, and work under stress, and observe impartiality and confidentiality throughout the investigation process.
- Investigate and resolve issues which do not rise to a level of a code violation but require educational conversation and follow up.
- Collaborate with university and community colleagues on behavioral intervention teams to consult and monitor concerning student behavior and advise on appropriate interventions and support, including conducting individualized threat assessment interviews.
- Authorized to interpret university policy in determining educational sanctions for policy and behavioral infractions that best meet student needs, University needs, and contractual obligations of the University.
- Respond to medical, safety, and security emergencies and to students in personal crisis as needed. Serve as departmental representation in these situations and exercises independent judgement with response.
Administration of Conduct Process:
- Assist with the campus behavioral system involving reported violations of the University Student Conduct Code by reviewing incident reports, conducting conduct hearings, determining educational sanctions for policy and behavioral infractions, and advising students on due process and responsibilities.
- Coordinate training of conduct hearing officers in coordination with Director
- Evaluation and assessment of student conduct process and data to ensure positive learning outcomes and ensure equitable reporting and outcomes based on student demographics.
- Recommend updates and revisions to university policies and procedures related to student conduct and behavioral intervention.
- Oversee the maintenance of the student conduct database to organize, manage, and track all incidents of alleged misconduct.
- Oversee the academic misconduct process, including assessing and evaluating in collaboration with campus partners.
- Provide support for compliance and emergency preparedness by maintaining all conduct data and providing data and reports as required by the Clery Act, Title IX, and various campus processes.
- Manage the compilation of statistics for cases adjudicated by staff.
- Oversee the processing of police reports, including requesting records from other police departments.
Program Development and Implementation:
- Assess educational needs of institution and develop outreach, training, programs, events, and courses to assist in meeting those educational needs related to student conduct, behavioral intervention, university policies, reporting behaviors of concern, and other topics in coordination with office staff.
- Design programs and publications and provide outreach to educate the University community about the Student Conduct Code, the consequences of behavior that violate the code, and university reporting procedures.
- Develop, implement, and evaluate programs and workshops for students, faculty, staff, prospective students, and parents in alignment with office mission. This may include ethics and decision-making workshops and other workshops implemented by the Office of Student Rights & Responsibilities, Office of Health Promotion, Office of the Vice-President of Student Engagement and Success, or other applicable campus office.
- Collaborate within the University and local community and represent the Director in their absence.
- Serve as representative on Department, Division and University committees and task forces, at events, and to department stakeholders as assigned.
- Carry out such responsibilities as may be requested by the Director of Student Rights, Responsibilities, or the Associate Vice President for Student Development & Belonging.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
