The UNC systemwide campus safety task force, formed earlier this year in the aftermath of two murders at UNC-Wilmington, is set to complete its report sometime in the next few weeks.
A final draft of the committee's recommendations will be submitted to UNC-system President Molly Broad's office before being presented to the Board of Governors. Officials plan to have the report ready in time for the board's December meeting.
Dara Edelman, student body president at UNC-Greensboro and one of two student members on the task force, said that the campus environment subcommittee is expected to propose annual threat assessments and security audits for each campus.
Willie Bell, a member of the task force and Chief of Police at Winston-Salem State University, said each of the system's 16 schools have been asked to compile and submit statistics for violent crimes on campus.
"Each campus does an annual security report," Bell said.
"But to bring (the reports) together and assess each other, I think this is the first time we've done that."
The committee hopes to establish a mechanism that allows a range of campus officials involved in student life to come together to exchange ideas and information and to pass along their findings to the entire system.
By establishing an annual report for the BOG, Edelman hopes UNC can become one of the first university systems in the country with a regular, comprehensive safety review process.
"We need to have everybody sit down and say, 'Are we addressing all the issues?'" said Edelman. "When you have all those heads come together, you can start a dialogue and find out what you need to work on at each campus."
