College Student Death: Guidance for a Caring Campus

by Rosa Cintrón, Erin Taylor Weathers, Katherine Garlough

Overview

Every year thousands of college students die, leaving our campuses stunned and bereft. In the midst of crisis, it may be necessary to react quickly to their deaths, but appropriate responses can be accomplished through thoughtful preparation. From those who have weathered the deaths of their students, it is possible to adapt strategies that are compassionate, ethical, appropriate, and that reflect well on the campus.

College Student Death: Guidelines for a Caring Campus is the result of many years of collaboration with more than thirty contributors. It applies the knowledge of university personnel called upon to respond to student death on and off campus and to provide solace to family and the campus community. This book provides support to university staff in the immediacy of student death, guides the design of policy before a crisis occurs, and provides instructional considerations for faculty. It enables the campus professional in understanding the complexities of effective response to college students' death and choosing an appropriate course.

College student death affects the depth and breadth of the campus community. Members of innumerable campus units—including student affairs, housing, counseling centers, police departments, international programs, student life, legal affairs, administrative affairs, drug and alcohol centers, health centers, religious communities, and athletic departments—can benefit from this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761837008
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	02/23/2007
Series:	American College Personnel Association Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 9.03(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Rosa Cintrón is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Research, Leadership, and Technology at University of Central Florida, Orlando. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from the Florida State University.

Erin Taylor Weathers is a coordinator of academic affairs projects with the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, and a guest lecturer in adult higher education at the University of Oklahoma. She received her Ph.D. in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Adult and Higher Education Program from the University of Oklahoma.

Katherine Garlough is a grant writer for International Development for Enterprise and Autonomy (IDEA). She received her Ph.D. in Adult and Higher Education from the University of Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 Introduction: Death on Campus: A Subject We Would Rather Not Talk Imagine
Part 3 I: Enhancing Our Preparedness
Chapter 4 Campus Response Teams: The Need for Coordination
Chapter 5 Alliances with Law Enforcement: Garnering Your Community's Resources
Chapter 6 College Student Death Policies
Part 7 II: Compassion in the Midst of Crisis
Chapter 8 Assisting the Grieving Family: The Worst That Can Happen, the Best That We Can Do
Chapter 9 Telephone Notification Protocol
Chapter 10 The Academic Professional as a Spritual Caregiver: Guidance through Seasons of Sorrow
Chapter 11 Understanding Funeral Arrangements
Chapter 12 Voices in Crisis: The Early Morning of November 18, 1999; Mourning and the Media
Part 13 III: Issues with Student Populations
Chapter 14 Residence Life: Responding to Loss of Life
Chapter 15 When a Student Athlete Dies: Dealing with Death in College Athletics
Chapter 16 International Students: An Administrative Response
Chapter 17 By One's Own Hand: Suicide on the College Campus
Part 18 IV: In Remembrance
Chapter 19 Spontaneous Shrines: The Expression of Communal Grief at Texas A&M University Following the 1999 Bonfire Collapse
Chapter 20 Dedications, Memorials, and Posthumous Awards
Chapter 21 Marshall University Plane Crash, a Triumph of Will
Part 22 Administrative Concerns
Chapter 23 From Crisis to Community: The Oklahoma State University Plane Crash
Chapter 24 The Legal Aspects of Coping with Death on Campus
Chapter 25 Image Repair Strategies: A University in Crisis
Chapter 26 Scenarios for Critical Incident Response Team Training
Part 27 Suggested Readings
Part 28 Index
Part 29 About the Editors

Editorial Reviews

This book was very interesting and informative....It is more suited for high-level administrators and campus counseling centers. College Student Death would be a great resource for college campus administration as well as institutions in the beginning stages of preparing or re-organzing a campus response team.

National Academic Advising Association

This book was very interesting and informative....It is more suited for high-level administrators and campus counseling centers. College Student Death would be a great resource for college campus administration as well as institutions in the beginning stages of preparing or re-organzing a campus response team.--National Academic Advising Association

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