All Campuses Ext./Number Emergency 911 Campus Emergency 6777 or 911 Confidential Crime Line 6811     Davidson Campus: Ext./Number Campus Resource Officers   6729 Campus Security    6274 / 336.240.4215 Campus Switchboard 0 Disability Services Counselor  6342 Dean, Student Support & Campus Life 6359 Conduct Officers 6355 / 336.479.0157 6351 / 336.479.0282 Davie Campus:  Ext./Number Campus Resource Officer 4857 / 336.477.4085 Campus Security 4861 / 336.479.0204 Director, Student Services 6130 Associate Dean, Academics 6303 Dean, Davie 4840

Campus Crime Statistics Campus Crime Log Davidson Campus Report Davie Campus Report Campus Policies Code of Conduct Readmission Administrative Withdrawal Student Grievance Policy Academic Integrity Policy Threat Assessment Policy Privacy Laws Sharing Educational Records Sharing Student Medical Information Security and Personnel  Davidson Campus Officers Davidson Security Officers Davie Campus Officer Davie Security Officers Campus Nurse Storm Safety The DCCC Care Team Campus Community Planning & Preparedness Parking Information Lighting, Grounds, Buildings Student Resources Employee Safety Handbooks Employee Safety and Health Policy/Practice Emergency Response Handbook

Campus Community
All students, faculty, and staff are responsible for maintaining a safe campus environment.  This means that all members of the campus community are committed to engaging in safe practices and reporting concerns.  Safe practices include:

• Walking around campus in groups, particularly during evening hours
• Locking your vehicle
• Varying your routine from time to time. This may include parking in a different place each week, taking a different route to class each week, etc.
• Being aware of your surroundings

All members of the DCCC community are encouraged to report safety concerns.  The following people are primary safety contacts, but concerns can be reported to ANY member of the DCCC staff or faculty.  Remember, in the event of a sudden and dangerous situation, call 911 first.

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Planning
Davidson County Community College is committed to providing a safe learning and work environment.  However, it is not always possible to predict and prevent some emergency situations.  In such cases, the best we can do is prepare to manage sudden emergencies, and the College has taken the following steps to do so:

• Crisis Response Teams – Teams of College faculty and staff for the Davie and Davidson campuses have been formed to manage a crisis.  Members of both teams will participate in National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) training in 2008-2009.
• DCCC Care Team – The purpose of this team is to assess a reported concern for campus safety.  The team’s goal is to address concerns as early as possible and offer needed assistance to students in distress.
• Preparedness Drills – Both the Crisis Response and DCCC Care Teams have engaged in drills to practice responding to a safety concern or emergency and will continue to do so each year.
• Mass Notification System – Calls to 911 emergency are automatically routed to Davidson and Davie county first responders, and the campus phone extension and building location are automatically identified in the call. 

All employees have an emergency response guide in their offices to assist with managing an emergency. In the event of a serious campus emergency, the College’s website will be preempted with an emergency message notification, and a voice message will be recorded on the main telephone line. 

The College is currently researching how to implement a mass notification system.  Most systems send emergency messages through text, voice, and e-mail simultaneously at minimal cost to students, faculty, and staff. 

• Facility Access – New buildings on both Davie and Davidson campuses will be equipped with swipe-card door access.  This means that students, faculty, and staff will need a valid ConnectCard to enter the buildings.

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Privacy Laws
College faculty and staff abide by privacy laws and ethical guidelines required of professionals in higher education.  While the laws and guidelines are in place to protect student privacy, in serious and imminent emergency situations, appropriate sharing of information about students allows the College to determine the best response to risks presented by students or others. 

Below is a summary of current North Carolina and federal law governing the sharing of students’ educational and medical/psychological records.  In some situations, other provisions may apply as well. 

1. Sharing Educational Record Information
   The federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) governs release of information from student “education records.”  Generally, FERPA prohibits sharing of educational information from a student’s record without written consent from the student. However, several exceptions to that rule exist:
   • “Education Record” vs. First-hand Knowledge
     FERPA broadly defines “education record” to include most student information a college records and keeps.  However, if an employee, contractor, or other college official has direct knowledge about a student based on his/her first-hand observation of student behavior, and that information is not recorded in an education record, the information may be disclosed to anyone without violation FERPA.  This does not include administrative action taken by the College in response to student behavior.   
   • Disclosure to “Institutional Officials”
     “Education record” information may be disclosed to institutional officials who have a legitimate educational interest in the information.  The term  “institutional officials” includes a wide range of individuals at the college, and the term “legitimate educational interest” is defined by each institution.  Thus, these broad definitions provide colleges with more flexibility in responding to situations of concern.
   • Disclosure to Parents Who Claim the Student is a Tax Dependent
     Parents who claim their students as a dependent for federal income tax purposes may have access to their students’ records.  To determine the tax dependency of a student, the college may ask parents to submit a copy of the tax return or ask for a copy of the return from the Financial Aid office. 
   • Disclosure in a Health or Safety Emergency
     In a health or safety emergency, FERPA allows disclosure of student information to appropriate people “if knowledge of the information is necessary to protect the health and safety of the student or other individuals.”  This is a strict provision and should be limited to “a specific situation that presents imminent danger to a student, or other students, or other members of the school community” or where the information is needed “in order to avert or diffuse serious threats to the safety or health of a student or other individuals.”  Thus, decisions should be made on a case-by-case basis, and only information necessary for the situation should be disclosed to only the people who need it in order to “provide immediate protection of the health and safety of the student or other individuals…”  Information should only be disclosed during the “period of the emergency.”

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2. Sharing Student Medical Information
• Informed Consent: Disclosure of student health records is permitted with the informed consent of the student. 
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA): Students’ medical treatment records are not covered by HIPAA, but some institutions choose to manage records as though they are covered.  However, if the campus health service treats non-students, their medical records are protected by HIPAA.  HIPAA allows the use or disclosure of “protected health information” from an individual’s medical records if the health care provider “in good faith, believes the use or disclosure:…Is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious imminent threat to the health or safety of a person or the public,”  and the disclosure “Is to a person or persons reasonable able to prevent or lessen the threat including the target of the threat…”   
• FERPA
  According to FERPA, “Records on a student…which are made or maintained by a physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, or other recognized professional or paraprofessional acting in his or her professional or paraprofessional capacity…and which are made, maintained, or used only in connection with the provision of treatment to the student and are not available to anyone other than persons providing such treatment…” are not education records subject to FERPA.  These treatment records are protected under state law.  However, if information from a medical treatment record is released to someone other than a professional who is providing treatment, that portion of the information thereafter becomes protected by FERPA.
• North Carolina Law
  The North Carolina courts recognize the common law medical/ethical duty of health care providers to protect patient confidentiality.

By statute, if the student is a minor, a physician may notify the student’s parent about the minor’s treatment for emotional disturbance without the minor’s consent only if, “in the opinion of the attending physician…notification is essential to the life or health of the minor.”  However, if a minor’s parent asks the physician for information about the “treatment of medical services being provided to the minor, the physician may give information.” 

• Professional Licensure Rules/Ethical Standards for Health care Professionals
  Conditions for releasing information from health care records without patient consent under professional licensure regulations and ethical standards vary from profession to profession.  The common denominator is that before information can be released, some degree of potential harm to the patient or others must exist that would be addressed by the release.

Physicians:  If there is a reasonable probability that a patient will inflict serious bodily harm on another, the physician should take reasonable precautions to protect the intended victim, which may include notifying law enforcement authorities.

Psychologists:  Disclosure of information without the patient’s consent is allowed to “protect the client/patient, psychologist, or others from harm.”

Social Workers:  Disclosure of information is allowed in circumstances which “would result in clear and imminent danger to the client or others.”

Licensed Counselors:  Disclosure is allowed when it is “required to protect clients or identified others from serious and foreseeable harm…”

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Lighting, Grounds, Buildings

Grounds:  Video cameras are installed in the Brooks Student Center and Gee buildings to assist CROs and security personnel with identifying unsafe situations.  Cameras will be installed in one building per year until all buildings are equipped.  Cameras have been installed in strategic locations to cover activity in the Davidson Campus courtyard. 

Facility Access – New buildings on both Davidson and Davie campuses will be equipped with swipe-card door access.  This means that students, faculty, and staff will need a valid ConnectCard to enter the buildings.  The College will pursue installation of swipe card door access for all other Davidson and Davie campus buildings. The College is also exploring the use of visual and auditory emergency notification alarms in buildings.

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Student Resources

Counseling Services
Professional counseling services are provided by the Disability Services Counselor, located in the Brooks Student Center, room 213.  Students who have concerns of a personal nature which might affect progress toward educational objectives are invited to make an appointment with the Counselor.  Additionally, students seeking disability services are encouraged to see the Counselor for information and assistance.

Faculty and Staff
Students are encouraged to talk with college faculty and staff about any type of concern. 

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Campus Crime Statistics

Campus Crime Log 2009

Policies
DCCC has several student policies to help faculty and staff with making safety decisions.  These policies are designed to protect students and the College in situations of concern.

1. Code of Conduct
2. Readmission
3. Administrative Withdrawal
4. Student Grievance Policy
5. Academic Integrity Policy

The DCCC Care Team
The DCCC Care Team is comprised of faculty and staff with expertise in working with students and responding to emergency situations.  The primary responsibility of the Care Team is to provide early assistance to students in distress in order to ensure well-being and safety and help prevent situations of concern, either before or after a conduct violation has occurred, from becoming more serious.  When needed, the Care Team will conduct a threat assessment to determine the best, most appropriate ways to help students.

Threat Assessment Policy

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Security and Personnel 
Campus Resource Officers (CRO)
Davidson Campus
Sheriff Deputies:
Officer Joey Cook - cjcook@davidsonccc.edu
Officer Allen Hanner - aahanner@davidsonccc.edu
Brooks Student Center 131A
Phone: 336.249.8186, extension 6729
Cell Phone: 336.479.0181

Davie Campus
Sheriff Deputies:
Larry Lawter - ljlawter@davidsonccc.edu
Davie Campus: 336.751.2885
Cell Phone: 336.477.4085
Community Building 1st Floor
Emergency: Call 911 Or 6777

A Davie County sheriff’s deputy serves as a Campus Resource Officer for the Davie Campus from 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Monday – Friday. 

Security Officers
Additionally, the College employs security officers to assist with administering campus safety plans. Security e-mail address: davsec@davidsonccc.edu

Davidson Campus
Contact: Brooks Student Center 130
Phone: 336.249.8186, extension 6274
Cell Phone: 336.240.4215
Emergency: Call 911 Or 6777
Toby Scarce, Supervisor
Tyler Manley
Christine Deaton (weekend security officer)
Gene Tuttle

Davie Campus
Campus: 336.751.2885 davsec@davidsonccc.edu
Cell Phone: 336.477.4036
Location: Community Building 1st Floor
Emergency: Call 911 Or 6777
Kevin Baker, Supervisor
Alec Neal
Kevin Marion

Campus Nurse - Davidson County Health Department
Debby Wells
Davidson Campus
Mendenhall 230 B
336.249.8186, ext. 6111
Monday & Tuesday, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Parking Information

Miscellaneous Information
The campus speed limit is 15 mph.

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