Aggression Management Solutions in Higher Education
Higher education can make their institutions safer, decrease distraction that impede learning and increase student achievement.

Introduction

Heretofore higher education has been accused of addressing aggression in silos; Mental and Behavioral Health have their approach, Safety and Security have a different approach and Student Affairs/Conduct have yet another approach. NCHERM's CUBIT Risk Rubric incorporating the Center's Primal and Cognitive Aggression Continua offer empirical basis for measuring aggression and thereby threat in a manageable and scalable way.

What's the application?

Is it important to prevent violence in your institution?

An investment in Crisis Management is an investment in a crisis which already exists.
An investment in Threat Assessment is an investment in a threat that already exists.
An investment in Conflict Resolution is an investment in conflict that already exists and since there are individuals who express their conflict with violence.
If an institution wishes to prevent violence they must first prevent conflict.
Crisis Management, Threat Assessment and Conflict Resolution do not prevent aggression.

Aggression Management Solutions prevents conflict, threats, violence and crisis. Learn more by attending one of our upcoming workshops . . .

Is this training just for security?

If you believe that Aggression Management is only for campus police, let me ask this question. When Virginia Tech’s shooter − Seung-Hui Cho − opened fire in that classroom, who was in that room; were there any campus police, security or law enforcement?

No, they arrived on scene after the last bullet was fired. If a shooter decides to open fire in your Mental Health Center, Student Affairs Office or Classroom will you have campus police in the room with you? This is why you need this information!

Making your campus safer-

Can a college or university identify someone who intends to do harm on their campus? The horrific shooting at Virginia Tech (VT) and subsequently, Northern Illinois University (NIU) demonstrates the need to understand the critical difference between two dramatically different kinds of aggression. Typically, security and law enforcement officers are trained to look for the “Primal Aggressor” (red-faced and ready to explode) when in fact, these shooters, were classic “Cognitive Aggressors” (cold, completely detached and determined). Comments from workshop participants and comments made by the President of The National Center for Higher Education Risk Management (NCHERM).

See what your colleagues are saying-

The Opinions of Your Colleagues About Aggression Management Solutions Please turn of your speaker volume
Dr. Philip Hestand, Director of Counseling and Career Planning, Arkansas State University	Dr. Jeff Quan, Counselor, Eastfield College
Lesley Frederick, Dean of Students, McHenry County College	Steve Gregory, Director of Security, Wake Technical Community College
Dr. Brian Van Brunt, Director of Counseling, Counseling & Testing Center, Western Kentucky University	Elizabeth Mohon, Staff Counselor, Sexual Assault Services Coordinator, Western Kentucky University
Dr. Perry Francis, Coordinator-Counseling, COE-Clinical Suite, Eastern Michigan University	Cary Kern, Executive Protection International