The Faculty

The institute is designed to address hazing as an environmental and cultural problem in communities by featuring top-notch faculty and hands-on participation.  Using the principles of prevention-focused strategies, some of the best minds in the field facilitate a four-day intensive curriculum aimed at empowering participants to demonstrate a shared understanding of the issue, and the ability to act upon their willingness to communicate and work together  to lead real change in the eradication of hazing practices within campus communities.

• Kim Novak, Campus Safety & Student Risk Management Consultant
• Adam Goldstein, PhD, Associate Dean of Students, Florida State University
• Tim Marchell, PhD, MPH, Director of Mental Health Initiatives, Cornell University
• Lauri Sidelko, Assistant Director for the National Collaborative for Hazing Research and Prevention, University of Maine
• Linda Langford, ScD, Associate Center Director, Higher Ed Center for Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention
• Wes McCormack, Graduate Assistant to the Department of Greek Life at Texas A&M University

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Institute namesake, and Lead Facilitator, Kim Novak is a consultant specializing in campus safety, student risk management, and violence prevention, as well as student organization development.  She is recognized as a national expert in student-focused risk management and campus safety.  She has been invited to speak at national conferences and on college campuses around the country on a variety of topics, including effective self-governance, critical decision-making strategies, current issues in higher education law and policy, campus safety efforts that engage students, as well as proactive risk management.

Prior to embarking on her consulting career full-time, Kim served as the director for Student and Campus Community Development at Arizona State University’s downtown Phoenix campus. Kim was a key player in the opening of the campus in 2004.  Her primary responsibilities involved the development, administration and supervision of a team that led Student Conduct Programs, High Risk Behavior Education, Student Affairs Risk Management, Student Advocacy Services, Crisis intervention and Response as well as Campus Safety for the new urban campus. She was also the assistant director for Student Affairs Risk Management at Arizona State University’s Tempe campus where she led the design of a proactive risk-management model for The Division of Student Affairs. Prior to joining the ASU community, Kim worked for nine years at Texas A&M University where she led the implementation of the University's proactive risk-management plan for student organizations.

Kim is actively involved in several national organizations and is currently editing the second edition of the Student Risk Management Compendium she co-edited for NACUA in 2006. Kim offers a high-energy, interactive presentation style aimed at providing participants the opportunity to enhance their knowledge in both practical and theoretical perspectives.

Institute co-Lead Facilitator, Adam Goldstein, Ph.D., is the associate dean of students at The Florida State University where he oversees Student Rights and Responsibilities, Greek Life, Withdrawal Services, and services for students experiencing medical and mental health crises.  He has been in student affairs administration for 17 years and has worked at both private and public institutions. After the Florida Legislature passed the country’s toughest hazing law in 2005, Adam coordinated a community coalition to improve FSU’s hazing education efforts and reduce the potential for emotional and physical harm caused by hazing. The coalition’s efforts resulted in the creation of http://hazing.fsu.edu, the University's central location for educational resources, policies, and information about hazing.  Adam served on the faculty of the first Interdisciplinary Institute for Hazing Intervention in 2008 and as co-leader in 2009.

Timothy C. Marchell, Ph.D., M.P.H. is director of Mental Health Initiatives at Cornell University.  In this role he leads institutional strategies to address alcohol abuse, hazing, and mental health problems among students.  Drawing on his clinical practice as well as his personal experience as a former college athlete and fraternity member, Dr. Marchell has developed innovative anti-hazing strategies, including a comprehensive website (www.hazing.cornell.edu) and interventions for organizations that haze. He is co-author of several publications on the prevention of hazing, alcohol abuse, and sexual violence, and has delivered numerous presentations on these issues for students, coaches, and higher education administrators.  Dr. Marchell is a licensed psychologist in the State of New York.

Lauri Sidelko is Assistant Director for the National Collaborative for Hazing Research and Prevention at the University of Maine, providing alcohol, tobacco, other drug and hazing education programs for campus athletes, fraternities and sororities, first-year students, marching band and club sports.  She first got involved in hazing prevention through her work as the Greek Life director at UMaine and as a research associate for the National Hazing Study in 2007.  She is currently pursuing a doctorate in higher education, focusing on hazing prevention and consequences in college and university settings. Lauri has been instrumental in the creation of the National Collaborative for Hazing Research and Prevention and served as the on-site coordinator and research presenter for the 2009 National Hazing Symposium. She is a frequent presenter on the topic of hazing prevention efforts and co-occurring issues such as alcohol, group think and bystander intervention.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention presents:
Linda Langford, Sc.D., an associate Center director since 1998. She initially managed the Center’s evaluation projects and since 2002 has directed the Center’s violence prevention initiatives, including developing a "framework" for violence prevention in higher education settings. Her work focuses on strategic planning, program evaluation, and health communications with special interests in environmental approaches to prevention, practitioner-researcher collaborations, and translating research to practice. She holds a doctorate in behavioral sciences from the Harvard School of Public Health and was an assistant clinical professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston from 1998-2006, teaching a core course in strategic planning for health communications.        

Wes McCormack recently joined the staff at the Pi Beta Phi Headquarters in St. Louis, MO as the Education Coordinator in the Programming & Education Department.  He will begin there in June working with their Leading With Values brand creating multiple education and assessment tools.   In May, Wes received a Master of Science degree in Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education from Texas A&M University.  As a graduate assistant, he served in the Department of Greek Life advising the Collegiate Panhellenic Council and the Multicultural Greek Council, where he was also responsible for creating programming for these groups.

As a part of his graduate experience, he also worked in the Department of Greek Life and University Events as well as the Office of Student Conduct at the University of Texas at Arlington.  He received his undergraduate degree in business administration from Baylor University, where he is a member of Phi Kappa Chi, a local fraternity.  While at Baylor, he worked in both the office of the Vice President for Student Life as well as the Department of Student Activities.  Professionally, he has been involved in the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors as well as the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and the Association for Student Conduct Administration.

The Curriculum

The curriculum challenges traditional approaches to the issue and provides an accessible framework for participants to learn and apply.  By explaining why the genesis of every hazing incident occurs well before the ‘incident’ ever takes place, participants will learn how to implement preventative measures that reduce the likelihood of the incident itself.  Participants will explore a framework for a coordinated community response and recognize the important role they play in its implementation.  

The 2010 Institute kicks off with an opening session at 3 p.m., Wednesday, June 9 and wraps up at noon on Saturday, June 12.