CARE Team

• Behavior that is disruptive, intimidating, threatening or violent.
• This includes, but is not limited to, actions or statements by students, faculty, professional staff, or members of the community that express an intent to harm individuals or campus property and assets.
• Concerns from faculty, professional staff, and students come through many campus departments and programs.

Situations involving personal and interpersonal violence; threats against oneself and/or another person/group likely to result in harm, injury, or death; and threats that might imperil the mission of the University, such as the following:

• Physical or verbal abuse
• Physical assaults, injuries
• Sexual assault, including rape and sexual crimes
• Harassment, stalking
• Coercion, affronts to human dignity
• Acts of violence
• Accidents
• Hate crimes, including ethno-violence and gay bashing
• Threats
• Follow-up to an incident, including suicide and homicide
• Outbursts in class
• Disruptive behavior

If you deem an individual to be an imminent threat, call Security at (207) 283-0176, or extension 366.

The committee is made up of representatives from the Student Counseling Center, Student Affairs, Health Services, Safety and Security, Human Resources, Housing and Residential/Commuter Life, Community Life, Experiential Education, and the deans of UNE's colleges.

Committee chairs are responsible for assessing each situation and determining whether or not the full committee needs to be convened. Otherwise, they handle individual cases with existing systems.

Please feel free to contact any of the CARE Team members to report issues. If you deem an individual to be an imminent threat, call security at (207) 283-0176, or extension 366.

Chairs