Directors Meeting and Tour

Today was really the first time I was able to dive into a lot of fire safety information. I initially started out in looking for ways other schools market their fire safety posters but didn't find much. There sure is a lot of information out there on fire safety though. Uffda!

At 9am, Krista and I had a Student Affairs Directors meeting. This was a very interesting meeting. Much of their topics were things I had no clue about and a bunch of updates. Elliott has a great memory but it's funny to hear him describe my path to Penn College, "Jack is from Grand Forks, ND, went to Minnesota, and is now at Western Illinois." Sometimes he'll switch things around a bit and throw in my VISTA experience or what I'm studying. However, there was a lot of talk about the Crisis Intervention Team and the ADA Classification of students who attempt suicide. Apparently, students who attempt or are about to attempt suicide are protected by ADA through mental illness. If I remember correctly, the school can excuse the student from classes and living on campus once they have a mental evaluation. However, between the attempt and the evaluation, the student could stay on campus and cannot be asked to leave due to ADA compliance. This has a lot of implications for Residence Halls as it is affecting the other students' safety living there. I'm sure there are a lot of grey areas with this but what an interesting conversation.

Shortly after the directors meeting, Krista and I hoped in Penn College vans with the Links for a tour of the Earth Science Center! The Earth Science Center is well off campus in a very wooded area. The building houses a bunch of different majors, which might fall into different schools, not too sure. We took a nice outdoors tour and ate lunch at the Pavilion. I did not know we were supposed to bring our own lunch so I waited till we got back. After that, I got my email address!! However, no password. I'll have to get that tomorrow.