To express a concern about a student, please send an email to careteam@hsc.edu or contact a member of the CARE Team individually. We also encourage calling Desiree Lee in the Office of Student Affairs with concerns: (434) 223-6129
CARE: Coordination, Assessment, Response & Education
Purpose:
The College CARE Team provides a regular opportunity for staff to discuss students of concern in an environment of care to obtain the largest possible perspective of student behavior and to work to assist students in resolving problematic behavior constructively in a timely manner. CARE Team membership is comprised of representatives from academic and student affairs who meet weekly to discuss and develop interventions ("action plans") for individual student behavior before it escalates and becomes detrimental to the individual student or the College community. The Team examines available information about the student and the situation, including strategies already implemented to deal with the behavior, when developing an action plan. CARE Team members also look at patterns of student behavior to identify the need for new policy or programmatic action that the institution may need to consider implementing (e.g. sexual assault, alcohol abuse, misuse of medical withdrawal, etc.).
Broadly, the CARE Team addresses:
- Behaviors that impair academic effectiveness
- Behavior that is disruptive to the point of affecting the ability of the individual or others to successfully participate in campus life
- Behavior that is dangerous to self or others
- This is likely to result in a transfer from the College CARE Team to the Threat Assessment Team (TAT)
The CARE Team encourages faculty, staff, fellow students, and family members to share concerns about student behavior they feel is compromising the student or the community. However, it is important that we - as an institution that values diversity - understand some behaviors may be unique or eccentric and not always compromising, dangerous or threatening.
CARE Team Members:
- Chair, Associate Dean for Student Development & Well-being: Renae Mancastroppa
- Dean of Students: Richard Pantele
- Dean of Culture and Inclusion: Desiree Washington
- Associate Dean for Campus and Residential Life: Jesse Schrader
- Associate Dean for Student Conduct & Character and Director of Greek Life: Dwayne Bowyer
- Associate Dean of the Faculty: Rebecca Jayne
- Director of Academic Success: Lisa Burns
- Director of Student Health: Kimberly R. Ball
- Director of Counseling Services: Clarence Merckerson
- Head Athletic Trainer: Alison Cameron
- Assistant Athletic Trainer: Jihanna Lane
- Director of Title IX, Access & Inclusion: Melissa Wood
- Director of Compliance & Coordinator, Athletic Diversity: Saint Blizzard
- College Chaplain: Keith Leach
- Deputy Chief of Police: Noel Malave
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Executive Assistant to DOS and Office of Student Affairs: Desiree Lee
PLEASE NOTE: The Family Education and Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) allows College officials to share information with one another, without prior student consent, under the following conditions (34 CFR § 99.31): when there is a "legitimate educational interest" and when College officials have direct experience of erratic or threatening behavior. FERPA also allows College officials to notify parents about imminent risk to health and safety without the student's prior consent.