"How to Identify Your Institution’s CSAs" on page 74 states, a "Campus security authority” is a Clery-specific term that encompasses four groups of individuals and organizations associated with an institution."
(1) "A campus police department or a campus security department of an institution"
(2) "Any individual or individuals who have responsibility for campus security but who do not constitute a campus police department or a campus security department (e.g., an individual who is responsible for monitoring the entrance into institutional property)."
(3) "Any individual or organization specified in an institution’s statement of campus security policy as an individual or organization to which students and employees should report criminal offenses."
(4) "An official of an institution who has significant responsibility for student and campus activities, including, but not limited to, student housing, student discipline and campus judicial proceedings. An official is defined as any person who has the authority and the duty to take action or respond to particular issues on behalf of the institution."
It ought to be very straightforward who's a CSA and who is not. At the University at Albany, however, it's not so easy.
University at Albany CSA list #1
The 2011Annual Safety Report/Clery Act Report http://police.albany.edu/ASR.shtml page 21, and "Campus Security Authorities"http://police.albany.edu/CSA.shtml (copyright 2009) and also the Clery Act PowerPoint http://police.albany.edu/Clery/CleryTrainingSlideShow.ppt identify the Campus Security Authorities under the Clery Act as:
• Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
• Professional staff in Student Success except Student Health Center and Counseling Center staff
• Senior staff in the Office of Human Resource Management
• Academic Advisors in Advisement Services Center Undergraduate Studies (ASC/US) and Educational Opportunity Program (EOP)
• Professional staff in Athletics, including coaches
It's not clear to me why the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (who is also the Dean for Undergraduate Education) would be a CSA while the Dean for Graduate Studies does not appear to be a CSA?
University at Albany CSA List #2
The "Coordinated Response for Sexual Assault" on page 5 at http://www.albany.edu/counseling_center/sarc/docs/SA%20PROTOCOL%20ammended%2012-10-09.pdf (evidently dated October 9, 2012) identifies CSAs as staff in
• Residential Life
• Student Life
• University Police
• Conflict Resolution and Civic Responsibility
• Athletics
• Undergraduate Studies
• Affirmative Action
Staff in "Undergraduate Studies" would seem to include a lot of people, but if it excludes faculty I'm not entirely sure who all specifically in Undergraduate Studies would be a CSA.
Also: why aren't staff in Graduate Studies included as CSAs?
University at Albany CSA List #3
This one's nearly the same as above: "Student Life" replaced with "Student Involvement & Leadership" (are they the same or not?) and "Affirmative Action" replaced with "Diversity and Inclusion" (same or not?).
The Student Code of Conduct Appendix J at http://www.albany.edu/studentconduct/27173.php (copyright 2012) and page 32 of http://www.albany.edu/studentconduct/assets/Community_Rights_FINAL_10-28-11.pdf (evidently dated October 28, 2011) identifies CSAs as staff in:
• Residential Life
• Student Involvement & Leadership
• University Police
• Conflict Resolution and Civic Responsibility
• Athletics
• Undergraduate Studies
• Diversity and Inclusion
University at Albany CSA lists #4-5?
The number of CSAs in the Office of Student Success can vary widely, depending upon which organizational chart for SS that one uses. There's two different ones, both dated June 2010.
• http://www.albany.edu/studentsuccess/docs/OrgChart2010.pdf
• http://www.albany.edu/studentsuccess/docs/ORG%20CHART%20Student%20Success.pdf
Not so Clery at all!
There's a "Campus Clery Committee," but it doesn't appear to list its members, minutes, or reports (if any) online? The only member I know of is Cynthia A. Riggi, Assistant Vice President for Student Success http://www.albany.edu/studentsuccess/cynthia-riggi.shtml "She also is a member of many campus wide committees, most notably the President’s Advisory Council on the Prevention of Sexual Assault and the Campus Clery Committee."
Those charts both being two years and several months old now, the organizational chart and the names within it may have changed without having been updated yet. I'm supposing "Cynthia Brady" is Cynthia A. Riggi's maiden name, indicating that both organizational charts are indeed outdated and in need of revision.
John M. Murphy is the Clery Act Compliance Officer. Heckuva job, Murphy.
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