Monday, November 9, 2026
2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

Mitigate Risk & Protect Your Students & Institution

Student organizations are an essential part of campus life, but they can also create significant health and safety risks, legal exposure, and financial and reputational liability for colleges and universities.

From risky activities and poor decision-making to inadequate oversight and documentation, student organizations and their advisors can unknowingly create situations that place both students and the institution at risk. And while colleges and universities may view student organizations as independent entities, courts have repeatedly examined the institution’s relationship to groups made up of its own students.

Many of these risks can be reduced through proactive training, clear expectations, effective advising, and strong documentation. Rather than waiting for an incident, complaint, or lawsuit to expose weaknesses in your current practices, learn how to identify and address risk before it becomes a problem.

Join us on November 9, 2026, for an engaging online training session that will help you identify common mistakes made by student organizations and, more importantly, understand what your institution can do to prevent them. Give your student organizations the tools to operate responsibly—and give your institution stronger strategies to protect students, support advisors, and minimize legal and reputational risk.

Topics Covered

Leave the webinar prepared with strategies to confidently:

• Examine the dangers associated with common mistakes and learn what proactive measures can be implemented to avoid them.
• Educate and empower student leaders to lead within risk management policy frameworks and avoid preventable missteps.
• Understand the institution’s potential responsibilities when student organizations are comprised of enrolled students.
• Make legal awareness a core component of student leadership and build critical thinking and civic responsibility throughout your campus organizations.
• Strengthen advisor practices, documentation, and institutional expectations to reduce preventable liability.
• Create a culture of prevention that protects students while allowing organizations to thrive.
• 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

Dr. Grant L. Azdell is a higher education leader, consultant, and campus safety expert with nearly 30 years of experience in senior student affairs and executive leadership roles. Throughout his career, he has worked extensively in emergency management, crisis response, campus safety, risk management, higher education law, strategic planning, and organizational leadership.
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