About the Presenter: Brett Sokolow

Brett Sokolow is a specialist in campus safety, security and high-risk student health and safety issues. He is the President of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management (NCHERM), a national multidisciplinary risk management consulting firm. He serves or has served as outside counsel/advisor to Concordia College (MN), Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Tulane University, La Salle University, Warren Wilson College, The Colorado College, Loras College, Hamilton College, the University of the Incarnate Word, Saint Leo University, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker and Rhodes, Midwestern State University and the University of Dayton. Mr. Sokolow is a risk management consultant, author, editor, and higher education attorney admitted to the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies from the College of William and Mary (1993), and a Juris Doctorate from the Villanova University School of Law (1997). Mr. Sokolow founded NCHERM in 2000. NCHERM provides specialized consulting, seminars, training and publications on:

Ø Sexual Assault and Harassment

Ø Judicial Affairs and Training

Ø Suicide & Psychological Distress

Ø Campus Safety and Security

Ø Hazing

Ø Problem drinking and drugs

NCHERM has provided services to over 500 school, college and university clients, including programs for campus and school district administrators, faculty and staff training, sexual assault and Title IX case management, risk management for fraternities and sororities, workshops and seminars. In addition to his consulting activities, Mr. Sokolow has also provided awareness and education programs for students at over 1,300 colleges, high schools and military institutions. Through NCHERM, Mr. Sokolow has published numerous books and articles on student affairs and risk management topics. He provides expert witness services, and lobbying efforts for campus crime and sexual assault-related legislation.

Mr. Sokolow holds memberships to the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), the Association for Student Judicial Affairs (ASJA), the University Risk Management and Insurance Association (URMIA), the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Agencies (IACLEA), the Association of Fraternity Advisors (AFA), the American College Personnel Association (ACPA, where he is Vice President for Education of Directorate Body of the Commission for Campus Judicial Affairs and Legal Issues), the Association of College and University Housing Officers- International (ACUHO-I) and the Council on Law in Higher Education (CLHE), where he serves as a member of the Board of Trustees as Vice-President for Campus Security and as Legal Issues Editor of the CLHE Student Affairs Law & Policy Weekly. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Higher Education Program at Old Dominion University. He is Editor of the Report on Campus Safety and Student Development published by the Civic Research Institute. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the College and University Legal Advisor, also published by the Civic Research Institute. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The NCHERM Chronicle of Campus Conduct, which is now out-of-print.

He has presented at dozens of regional and national conferences, some highlights of which include:

· North Carolina A&T Campus Safety Conference, 1998

· Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault Annual Conference, 1998

· Keynote, Response to Sexual Assault: Everyone’s Responsibility, Bowling Green State University, 1998

· 8th Student Conference on Campus Sexual Violence, 1999

· Fraternity Executive Association Annual Meeting, 1999

· Association for Student Judicial Affairs (ASJA) Annual Conference, 2000

· Zeta Tau Alpha Annual Conference, 2000

· International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Agencies (IACLEA) Annual Conference. Plenary address, 2001.

· National Conference on Student Services. Concurrent session on He Said—She Said. Miami, FL, 2002.

· Fraternity Risk Management Trust Risk Management College, 2002

· Safe Schools, The Twelfth International Conference on Sexual Assault and Harassment on Campus, 2002

· URMIA Annual Conference—The University Risk Management and Insurance Association. Concurrent session on Risk Management in Student Affairs. New Orleans, LA, 2003.

· Higher Education Law & Policy Institute, San Diego, CA. Concurrent session on The Standard of Proof in Date Rape and Sexual Assault Cases;

· Association for Student Personnel Administrators (ACPA) Annual Conference. Concurrent Session on LifeLessons Online: Sexual Assault 101. Concurrent session on Elaborating a Risk Management Framework for Hearing Conduct Appeals. April, 2004.

· Safe Society Zone—The National Conference on Sexual Assault in Our Schools, Orlando, FL., October 2005. Four concurrent sessions.

· National Meeting on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention in Higher Education. Concurrent session co-presented with Marlene Regan and Ann Malain on “Best Practices for Campus Sexual Assault Response Protocols.” Arlington, VA. October, 2006.