National Campus Safety Awareness Month Week 4

By | September 21, 2015

Good Morning Campus Community,

We are now in our fourth week of National Campus Safety Awareness Month. We have enjoyed working with our campus partners to raise awareness on a wide variety of health and safety issues.

For the fourth week of Campus Safety Awareness Month, we hope that you will be able to attend the following events:

September 22nd

“Hot Tips” Carnival Table

Join the Office of Victim Services and SCOPE on Cougar Mall from 11am to 1pm as they promote their carnival that will take this Thursday. For more information, please contact Charlane Dwight (dwightc@cofc.edu) with the Office of Victim Services.

Town Hall Meeting (Students)

As part of September’s National Campus Safety Awareness Month, Public Safety will host several town hall meetings for the campus community.  This is a great opportunity to meet your Public Safety officers, ask questions, and share suggestions, comments, and concerns. Campus community members are always encouraged to actively participate in safety and security around campus. This session, open to students only, will be held at 3:30pm in Stern 206. Light refreshments and snacks will be served.

 

September 23rd

Town Hall Meeting (Faculty)

As part of September’s National Campus Safety Awareness Month, Public Safety will host several town hall meetings for the campus community.  This is a great opportunity to meet your Public Safety officers, ask questions, and share suggestions, comments, and concerns. Campus community members are always encouraged to actively participate in safety and security around campus. This session, open to faculty only, will be held at 12pm in Stern 206. Light refreshments and snacks will be served.

Straight Talk w/ Emily Torchiana

Suicide Survivor Emily Torchiana will speak about her experience dealing with severe cyber bullying throughout her time in high school. She will speak about her struggles with depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder and overcoming three suicide attempts. Emily found support through her time at a treatment facility the summer going into college. She will speak of how she overcame her struggles and has worked to integrate herself positively in the college community. This event will take place in Stern 206 at 3pm.

 

September 24th

“Hot Tips” Carnival

Join the Office of Victim Services and SCOPE in the Stern Gardens from 11am to 2pm for their “Hot Tips” Carnival. For more information, please contact Charlane Dwight (dwightc@cofc.edu) with the Office of Victim Services.

Town Hall Meeting (Staff)

As part of September’s National Campus Safety Awareness Month, Public Safety will host several town hall meetings for the campus community.  This is a great opportunity to meet your Public Safety officers, ask questions, and share suggestions, comments, and concerns. Campus community members are always encouraged to actively participate in safety and security around campus. This session, open to staff only, will be held at 2:30pm in Stern 206. Light refreshments and snacks will be served.

 

Look for weekly e-mails with updates as to what programs and activities are being offered in the coming weeks.  Until then, please visit the National Campus Safety Awareness Month website for more information.  You can also check out our full calendar of events here.

Please note that the Earthquake Preparedness events have been canceled. They will be rescheduled for October. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Take Care and Be Safe,

PSO Madeline M. Sloan

Crime Prevention Specialist

Department of Public Safety

Office of the President

89 St. Philip Street

Charleston, SC 29424

(843)953-5609

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