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The Responsibility Of Dorm Directors

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One of the number one priorities here at the college is to ensure that we are providing our students with a safe and secure environment that is conducive for learning. At an institution that provides Residence Halls for students, it is important to remember that the safety measures extended to those residence halls also. According to Sokolow (2004), there are three questions that a risk manager has to address when assessing risks, “can the risk can be avoided, can the risk be transferred, or if the risk can be accepted” (p. 90). The purpose of this audit is to identify the policies and practices that are in place that could potentially be a legal liability for the institution. In order to conduct this risk assessment, we will utilize the three-category assessment: low risk bring searches, moderate risk of personal property, and high risk of mental health awareness and violence (Sokolow, 2004, p. 88)
Searches
Part of the responsibility of Dorm Directors is to report any illegal activity that may occur on the premises. A possible infraction may result in a dorm director or campus police performing a search of the room. There have been numerous complaints from students that there have been illegal searchers of their rooms. In some of these instances, the students were not present, and those who were present stated that they did not grant permission for officers to search. The issue with this is that in order for searches to occur, we have to ensure that they are

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