Wednesday, October 22, 2025
2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

Develop Clear Policies & Proactive Advising To Mitigate Risk

Issues that significantly impact health and safety or create financial and reputational liability continually present themselves on college and university campuses when it comes to managing student organizations. 
 
Students & advisors often unknowingly engage in activities that expose themselves and their institution to liability. Join us on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, when our expert presenter explores ways to limit exposure for student groups, their leaders, their advisors and the institution. Examine the dangers associated with each mistake and learn what proactive measures can be implemented to avoid them.

Topics Covered

Gain crucial and actionable takeaways to enable you to:  

• Identify and mitigate the common legal mistakes made by student organizations.
• Educate and empower student leaders to lead within risk management policy frameworks and avoid preventable missteps.
• Strengthen advisor expectations and create an environment for those they advise to foster shared responsibility, peer accountability, and a value-driven commitment to compliance.
• Make legal awareness a core component of student leadership and build critical thinking and civic responsibility throughout your campus organizations.
• Improve transition processes between student leadership boards to ensure continuity and compliance year after year and minimize legal mistakes.
• Recognize and prevent risky group behaviors and to better understand how some “traditional” or bonding activities can cross the line into hazing or Title IX concerns. Equip organizations to challenge and reshape these behaviors through education, policy reinforcement, and intentional programming. 

Presenter

Donald Vanpelt, Jr. currently serves as the Assistant Vice President for Student Engagement at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.
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