Behavior Evaluation Response Team
Purpose Statement: The purpose of BERT is to encourage a proactive, confidential collaboration with relevant professionals to address student behavior to prevent escalation.
Charter Sponsor: President’s Cabinet
Charter Contact: Vice President, Student Affairs
Timeline: Standing
Membership:
- Vice President, Student Affairs (chair)
- Vice President for Learning and Academic Affairs or designee
- Associate Dean, Athletics and Physical Education
- Associate Dean of Student & Residence Life
- Associate Dean, Student Development & Transitions
- Assistant Dean, Academic Affairs
- Chief, Department of Public Safety or designee
- Director & Chief Conduct Officer, Civic Responsibilities
- Director, Campus Services – Rome Campus
- Licensed Counselor, Counseling Department
- Coordinator, Disability Services Office
DOES
| Task | Action |
Create an opportunity and expectation for College employees to be aware of and report student behavior that is concerning. | Maintain an online reporting system |
| Communicate the process for making a BERT report at the beginning and mid-point of each semester as reminders. | Communicate to all full-time, part-time and adjunct employees the location for making a BERT report, noted below: http://www.mvcc.edu/bert |
| Proactively identify student behavior to effect appropriate and preventative strategies for the mutual benefit of the student and the campus. | Meet weekly to discuss |
| Develop action step plans to address the patterns of behavior. | Assign the action steps to workgroup members for follow through |
| Communicate back to the original person making the report pertinent information that assures that action has been taken without violating the student’s confidentiality. | Communicate |
DOES NOT
- Discuss BERT cases outside of the BERT team with the exception of communicating back to the original person making the report about the general status of the report.
GUIDING POINTS
- Keep the College mission front and center
- Think about what’s best for the individual student and the campus as a whole
- Seek to understand and recognize there are multiple perspectives to each issue
Revised March 2016