William L. Kibler, Ph.D.

Maureen Connolly, MBA

Brian Van Brunt, Ed.D.

Carolyn Reinach Wolf, Esq.

John Wesley Lowery, Ph.D.

WILLIAM L. KIBLER, Ph.D.

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William L. Kibler, Ph.D.

Dr. Bill Kibler serves as the Vice President for Student Affairs and Professor of Counselor Education at Mississippi State University.  He has over thirty years of experience in student affairs administration, serving at the University of Florida, Texas A&M University, and Mississippi State.  Dr. Kibler oversees the University Crisis Action Team and commands the Incident Command Center.  He earned a bachelors degree in economics and masters and specialist degrees in counselor education from the University of Florida, and a doctorate in educational administration from Texas A&M University. 

Dr. Kibler has developed expertise in numerous areas, including academic integrity, student rights and responsibilities, student conduct and judicial affairs, and crisis response. He has co-authored a book on academic integrity and co-authored and edited a book on student conduct and discipline.  He has several published book chapters and articles in the areas of academic integrity, student conduct and judicial affairs, and student affairs administration.  Dr. Kibler received the D. Parker Young Award from the Association for Student Judicial Affairs in recognition of outstanding scholarly and research contributions in the areas of higher education law and judicial affairs.  He has consulted with numerous leading universities on student conduct policies, legal issues, academic integrity, and other topics. 

Dr. Kibler has provided leadership in a number of professional associations.  He was a founder and served as President of the Association for Student Judicial Affairs (ASJA).  He was also a founder and served as President of the Center for Academic Integrity (CAI).   He has served in several leadership roles, including national conference chair, of the National Association for Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA).  He served as an Associate Editor of the College Student Affairs Journal and currently serves on the editorial board of the NASPA Journal.

Consulting Topics

1. Campus Crisis Response/Emergency Management/Incident Command
2. Campus safety and security
3. Media relations – including media response during crises
4. Psychological / Medical withdrawal policies and procedures
5. Proactive risk management in working with students and student organizations
6. Campus Conduct Administration
7. Campus conduct proceedings
8. First Amendment Issues on college campuses
9. Academic Integrity and Honor Codes
10. Conduct Code and Honor Code reviews and analysis
11. Hazing
12. Expert Witness Services

To book a consultation with Bill, please contact Samantha Dutill, the NCHERM Associate Executive Director at 610-993-0229 or email samantha@ncherm.org

Maureen Connolly, MBA

Maureen Connolly, MBA

Maureen Connolly, MBA, has been a higher education administrator for over 14 years, most recently serving as Dean of External and Summer Programs for Wagner University. She is a doctoral candidate (May 2010) in Education Foundations, Leadership and Policy at Hofstra University. Her research concentration is emergency and crisis management in higher education. For her dissertation she created a survey that evaluated how closely aligned a college/ college emergency preparedness plan is with the DOE and FEMA emergency preparedness guidelines for higher education institutions.

Ms. Connolly is focused on using her technical and research skills to move forward the agenda of minimizing risk to students, staff, and faculty by assisting institutions to prepare for, and react to, events that could compromise the safety of any person in a classroom, residence hall, office or any other campus facility as well as for any event that could jeopardize the continuation of use of any campus facility. This is accomplished with the development of an all-hazards plan, having a well-practiced team, and integrating campus emergency preparedness activities with the community external to the campus. Community safety has been the hallmark of her volunteerism as a US Coast Guard Auxiliarist and Suffolk County CERT member. Working for FEMA as a disaster assistance employee (DAE) following Hurricane Katrina proved to be a pivotal point in her life, intensifying her interest in community safety and emergency management. Her recent research Projects/articles include:
• Is Your School Really Ready for Any Crisis? has been accepted for publication by the Community College Journal of Research and Practice. This quantitative study conducted at Hofstra University was designed to measure the confidence level of the faculty and staff in Hofstra’s emergency plan.
• Student Narratives: Factors That Influenced Their Decisions to Return, or Not Return, To Their Home College/University Following Its Closure Due to Hurricane Katrina is a qualitative research project studying the student perspective of how colleges and universities handled retention following Hurricane Katrina.
• Starting and Sustaining a Campus Based Cert Team is a research paper based on a collaborative community/school partnership between Hofstra University and the Nassau County Office of Emergency Management
• Using Reflective Practice as a Change Strategy for Preparing for an Emergency Event on Campus looks at the use of reflective practice to inspire systems thinking and create a place where everyone assumes responsibility for emergency preparedness.
• Challenges in Creating and Assessing Campus Emergency Plans is a NCHERM webinar presented in April, 2009 with Dr. William Kibler, VP for Student Affairs and Professor of Counselor Education, at Mississippi State University.

Ms. Connolly’s pertinent certifications include:
o FEMA IS-00100, September 29, 2005, January 5, 2010
o FEMA IS-00200, September 29, 2005
o FEMA IS-00271m January 6, 2010
o FEMA IS-00300, September 29, 2005
o FEMA IS-00362, June 2008
o FEMA IS-00700, September 29, 2005
o FEMA IS-00703, January 7, 2010
o FEMA IS-00775, January 5, 2010
o FEMA IS-00800, September 29, 2005
o FEMA Emergency Management Institute Certificate of Completion, How to Design and Teach a college Course on Catastrophe Readiness & Response Workshop, 2006
o C-CERT Train-the-Trainer Certificate of Completion, April 2008
o WMD Radiological/Nuclear Awareness Course, 2007
o American Red Cross Intro: Disaster Services, 2006
o American Red Cross Shelter Simulation, 2006
o American Red Cross CPR/AED, 2007
o Certificate, Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program, January 2010

To book a consultation with Maureen, please contact Samantha Dutill, the NCHERM Associate Executive Director at 610-993-0229 or email samantha@ncherm.org

Brian Van Brunt, Ed.D.

Brian Van Brunt, Ed.D.

Dr. Van Brunt has worked in the counseling field for over fifteen years. He served as Director of Counseling at New England College from 2001-2007 and currently serves as Director of Counseling and Testing at Western Kentucky University. His counseling style draws from a variety of approaches, though primarily from the humanistic/person-centered style of treatment with its emphasis on warmth, compassion, empathy, unconditional positive regard, individual choice and personal responsibility. He is a certified QPR suicide prevention trainer and trained in BASICS alcohol intervention. Brian is also a senior trainer in John Byrne's Aggression Management program.

Brian currently serves as the president-elect of the American College Counseling Association. He has presented nationally on counseling ethics, mandated counseling, and testing and assessment for the American College Counseling Association (ACCA), Association of College and University Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD), American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and the National Association of Forensic Counselors (NAFC). He has presented on web site design at the Georgia College Counseling Association (GCCA) conference in 2007 and was awarded the American College Health Association Innovation Grant for his work on New England College’s website. He has taught graduate classes in counseling theory, ethics, testing and assessment and program evaluation. He has taught undergraduate classes in adjustment and personal growth, deviance and counseling theory.   For more information on Brian, click here.

To book a consultation with Brian, please contact Samantha Dutill, the NCHERM Associate Executive Director at 610-993-0229 or email samantha@ncherm.org

Carolyn Reinach Wolf, Esq.

Carolyn Reinach Wolf, Esq.

Carolyn Reinach Wolf is a senior partner of the Abrams law firm on Long Island, NY and is responsible for the mental health law practice area.  She holds a J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law, an M.S. in Health Services Administration from the Harvard School of Public Health and an M.B.A. in Management from the Hofstra University School of Business.  She is admitted to practice in New York State and Federal Courts as well as the U.S. Supreme Court.  Prior to practicing law, Ms. Wolf is a former hospital administrator and Director of Risk Management.

Ms. Wolf’s practice concentrates in the areas of mental health and health care law, representing mental health and health care professionals, major hospital systems and community hospitals, institutional and community outpatient programs, skilled nursing facilities, higher education counseling centers, individuals and families.  Her expertise includes mental hygiene law, including retention and treatment over objection psychiatric cases, mental health warrants, capacity determinations, informed consent and medical treatment cases, confidentiality and release of records matters, interaction with law enforcement in health care facilities and institutions of higher learning, Kendra’s Law applications (Assisted Out-Patient Treatment Orders), Article 81 and 17-A guardianship proceedings, civil and criminal litigation and negotiation specific to mental health issues, consultation and advice in navigating the mental health system and legal interventions in the inpatient, outpatient and campus counseling treatment settings.  She also consults with health care institutions on issues of end of life decision making, development of ethics committees, advance directives, and institutional review boards.

Ms. Wolf is a frequently invited speaker and a consultant to college and university counseling centers and administrators throughout the country regarding mental health law issues.  These issues include: the increasing rate of student suicides, serious mental illness on campus, drug and alcohol abuse, date rape, law enforcement, confidentiality, parental notification, documentation and the increasing liability of campus staff, administrators, mental health professionals and the institutions themselves. 

She has developed seminars, published many articles for professional journals, and lectured extensively in these and other areas of mental health and health care law,  providing education to professionals in all legal, medical, and educational disciplines, health care providers,  attorneys, laypersons and  members of the judiciary. 

Ms. Wolf has and continues to hold elected positions in the Association for Healthcare Risk Management of New York State: President-elect, 2006, President, 2007, Chairperson of the Education Committee; Nassau County Bar Association, Hospital and Health Law Committee (Vice Chairperson);  New York State Bar Committee on Mental Health Issues (Co-Chairperson).  She is also an active member of the Article 81 Advisory Committee, New York County (Co-Chairperson “Integrated Guardianship Part” Subcommittee), Healthcare Executives Club, American Counseling Association, American College Counseling Association and the National Association of College and University Attorneys.  Ms. Wolf also serves as Counsel to County Coalitions of Mental Health Centers.

To book a consultation with Carolyn, please contact Samantha Dutill, the NCHERM Associate Executive Director at 610-993-0229 or email samantha@ncherm.org

John Wesley Lowery, Ph.D.

Dr. John Wesley Lowery joined NCHERM as an affiliated consultant in August 2009.  He is an associate professor in the Student Affairs in Higher Education Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

He previously served on the faculty at Oklahoma State University, where he coordinated the college student affairs

and higher education programs.  His first faculty appointment was at the University of South Carolina, where he taught in and coordinated the Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA) Program.

John has a Masters degree in student personnel services from the University of South Carolina and his undergraduate degree in religious studies is from the University of Virginia. He earned his doctorate at Bowling Green State University in Higher Education Administration. 

Before beginning his doctoral work in 1996, he was Director of Residence Life at Adrian College in Michigan and University Judicial Administrator at Washington University in St. Louis.

John served as ASJA’s (now ASCA) CAS Director for five years. He served on the Board of Directors for both NASPA (2002-2004) and ASJA (1996-1999). He has previously chaired the ASJA’s Legislative Issues and Resolutions Committees as well as co-chairing the Interassociation Task Force on the National Baseline Study on Campus Sexual Assault. John also previously served on the Core Council on Outreach and Advocacy for the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and on the directorate body of ACPA's Commission XV: Campus Judicial Affairs and Legal Issues. John also currently serves on the Board of Contributors for About Campus.  John is the co-author of Navigating Past the “Spirit of Insubordination”: A Twenty-First Century Model Student Conduct Code.

His areas of consultation center around legislative issues, CAS standards, student conduct best practices and as an expert witness.  For more information about John, click here.

To book a consultation with John, please contact Samantha Dutill, the NCHERM Associate Executive Director at 610-993-0229 or email samantha@ncherm.org

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