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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.

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

Product details

Published Feb 23 2007
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9780761837008
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Rosa Cintrón

Anthology Editor

Erin Taylor Weathers

Anthology Editor

Katherine Garlough

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