Campus Assessment, Response, and Evaluation Team
Purpose
The Minnesota State Mankato CARE Team supports student success and campus safety through the following work:
- Meets regularly to review student referrals.
- Makes recommendations to provide caring, preventative, and early intervention to support students whose behavior is concerning, disruptive, or threatening.
- Provides consultation for faculty and staff.
- Provides support to those impacted by concerning behavior.
- Reviews and consults with law enforcement on threat assessment and response procedures.
The following student behaviors may warrant a referral to the CARE Team:
- Acts of physical aggression or other disruptive behavior
- Marked changes in personality, weight, grooming, sleep
- Rapid speech or delusional thinking
- Violent, angry or hopeless themes in writing assignments
- Threats of harm to self or others
- Use or possession of weapons
CARE Team Membership
The CARE Team includes the following faculty and staff:
- Nicole Stock, Interim Dean of Students and Director of Student Conduct - Co-Convener
- Sandi Schnorenberg, Director of University Security
- Linda Alvarez, Director of Equal Opportunity & Title IX
- Kari Much, Director of Counseling Center
- Torin Akey, Associate Director of Residential Life
- Jodi Egeland, Medical Director & Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Student Health Services
- Shar Jenniges, Title IX Investigation and Resolution Specialist
- Cecelia Schaefer, Student Conduct Officer and Success Coordinator
The CARE Team meets bi-weekly throughout the academic year, and more frequently as situations require.
Reporting of Concerns
Use the University’s Refer or Report a Concern About a Person page: https://www.mnsu.edu/university-life/campus-services/student-affairs/refer-or-report-a-concern-about-a-person/ to submit a referral or report of a student behavior concern.
This site serves as a landing page to refer to or report a variety of concerns. Concerns and the offices that receive those referrals are as follows:
| Academic Misconduct | Student Affairs |
| Disruptive Behavior or Policy Violation | Student Affairs |
| Care and Concern for an Individual | Student Affairs |
| Sexual or Interpersonal Misconduct | EOTIX |
| Discrimination or Discriminatory Harassment | EOTIX |
| Submit a Student Complaint or Grievance | Student Affairs |
| Report a Concern About a University Employee | Human Resources |
| Bias Incident | DEI – Bias Response Team |
| Student Academic Success Concern | Student Success Division |
| Anonymous Report to University Security | University Security |
Behavioral Consultation Team (BCT)
The Behavioral Consultation Team is a larger group representing units where faculty and staff have significant student interaction and may observe issues impeding a student’s success or issues that may become campus safety concerns. Units currently represented include:
- Student Activities
- Student Success
- Accessibility Resources
- Counseling Center
- EOTIX
- Residential Life
- Student Conduct
- University Security
- Student Health Services
- New Student and Family Programs
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Faculty Association
