This practical session is designed for new and experienced faculty members who are looking for new tools to manage difficult student situations in the classrooms. The program will demonstrate techniques to re-direct, manage and calm the disruptive students. The presenter will focus on the techniques of motivational interviewing to offer faculty members an underlying theory and clear examples of how to address today's classroom problems.

Asperger’s is a growing disorder in today’s college population at both community colleges and four years institutions. This program will offer a range of practical, research-based and time-tested techniques for working with students struggling with Asperger’s disorder. Dr. Brian Van Brunt will review how to assist students transitioning from high school to college, helping with social and communication challenges and ensuring proper access to services.

College and Universities are increasingly concerned with identifying risk factors and preventing violence from occurring on their campus. This workshop will help higher education faculty, staff, counselors and psychologists better understand aggressive behavior and how to prevent this aggression from manifesting on campus as violence. The training will offer insights into the difference between cognitive and primal aggression, the early stages of cognitive aggression called the Un-Magnificent Seven©, how individuals move through the stages of the aggression continuum (trigger, escalation and crisis) and what attitudes; behaviors and qualities are likely to be associated with individuals who make the ultimate decision to take the lives of others on their path towards revenge. Those completing the training will be better prepared to prevent violence on their campus as they become more fluent in the Aggression Management© system.

Zero tolerance policies attempt to keep the college or university safe from a conduct, judicial affairs and legal perspective. The student violated the code of conduct by making a threat. Allowing the student to stay enrolled creates a potential for a lawsuit for the university if the student were to follow through with his threat.

Join us to learn ways to better identify at-risk students on your campus. We will discuss how to view violence and risk within a contextual threat assessment framework rather than through profiling or list-based perspective. Focus will be on connection and assessment of these students in order to better gather data and manage risk. Learn the basic steps involved in threat assessment to better determine the nature and immediacy of the risk presented by the communicated threat. We will also explore common mistakes in terms of risk and threat assessment on campus and learn evidence-based methods to improve safety on your campus.

Following the Dear Colleague Letter released last April, Title IX coordinator trainings have been on the rise across college campuses. Community and residential colleges have been scrambling to ensure their Title IX policy and investigations are in line with the OCR standards.

This training will provide an in-depth look at nine different core concepts that are essential for faculty and staff to understand. Jason Ebbeling (Vice President of Student Affairs at Mitchell College) and Dr. Brian Van Brunt (Director of Counseling at Western Kentucky University) will share their observations and thoughts related to sexual misconduct and harassment. They will discuss practical case examples from a legal, psychological and administrative perspective.