Welcome to the Behavior Intervention Team Website!
Listen to David's Welcome:
San Juan College is committed to providing a safe campus learning environment. Tragic events have occurred on campuses across the country
which have reinforced that everyone on the campus must play a role making a campus safe.
With this in mind, the College has created the Behavior Intervention Team (BIT for short). The BIT is a collaborative interdisciplinary committee
of College officials that meets periodically (and as needed) to discuss students exhibiting behaviors indicative of high risk to themselves and to the members of
the campus community. The team, with the help of faculty and staff, will monitor events in which a student’s behavior has the potential to negatively impact the
college environment. If such behaviors are identified, the Team will implement appropriate interventions in order to maintain a safe campus environment conducive to learning.
The support of the entire faculty and staff will be needed in order to accomplish this task. At the moment, a pilot program is being initiated that
involves faculty only. Once the pilot program is complete, all faculty and staff will be asked to participate.
For this pilot program to be operative, a Behavior Intervention Report Form has been created online. It is to be used by any faculty member who
encounters a student whose behavior interferes with academic instruction and/or is perceived as a safety concern to students, staff or property.
Should you have such a situation, you are asked to fill out and submit the form online. The online form replaces the earlier version which was
a hand-written hard-copy. The information in this form is confidential and goes directly to a site that only members of the team can access.
To help faculty and staff in dealing with students who appear distressed, several protocols or guidelines have been developed and placed on the
Behavior Intervention Web page. Currently, these protocols are in text form and are short, quick reads. They are being supplemented with voice-supported
Power Points. To date, two short Power Points are available online.
We greatly appreciate your assistance in this effort to maintain a safe learning environment for our students, staff, faculty and visitors.
David P. Eppich Vice President for Student Services San Juan College (505)566-3318 eppichd@sanjuancollege.edu
