About the Team

The UIS Threat Assessment Team is a multidisciplinary group of university professionals tasked with conducting threat assessments; addressing aberrant, dangerous or threatening behavior on campus; and providing guidance and best practices for preventing violence and providing support services. The Threat Assessment Team uses fact-based assessment processes to investigate threats, actions or conduct that may lead to targeted violence and determine situation-specific response action plans. The team also conducts post-incident assessments and evaluations of the effectiveness of the response(s) on a case-by-case and aggregate basis.

The Threat Assessment Team responds to concerns involving enrolled students (including prospective students and recently graduated students), faculty and staff (including but not limited to postdoctoral fellows, prospective and former employees), and members of the general public (including but not limited to alumni and parents of enrolled students).

Members of the university community can report an employee or student of concern to the Threat Assessment Team via the following web forms:

• Employee of Concern Form
• Student of Concern Form

Thresholds applying to students, employees and members of the public include:

1. Violent ideation: expression of violent ideas or intent to harm others.
2. Suicide threat, attempt or significant ideation.
3. Pattern of physical or emotional bullying and/or intimidation.
4. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests or other verbal or physical sexual conduct.
5. Harms or destroys property in a way that could endanger others.
6. Inappropriate attempts to control processes, outcomes, or decisions beyond the person’s control.
7. Pursuing unreasonable options and continues to do so after instructed to stop (e.g. fixation on an ‘injustice’).
8. Delusional ideations or behaviors (persecutory, paranoia, hallucinations).
9. Excessive, escalating or inappropriate alcohol or other drug use.

The Threat Assessment Team engages in early intervention if a threshold behavior is crossed. A decision to activate and further monitor a case is based on an evaluation of the totality of the facts and circumstances known at the time and on the experience and professional judgment of the team members and not simply whether one or more thresholds have been crossed.

All areas of the campus community are required to cooperate with requests from the Threat Assessment Team relative to successfully monitoring any threatening behavior. Read the full Threat Assessment Policy for additional information.

Threat Assessment Team Membership

• Associate Chancellor for Strategic Communication / Chief of Staff (chair)
  • Kelsea Gurski
• Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs or designate
  • Jamarco Clark
• Associate Provost
  • Cecilia Cornell
• Director of Access & Equity
  • Vacant
• Dean of Students
  • Jantzen Eddington
• Police Chief
  • Ross Owens
• Police Captain
  • Justin Emmons
• Assistant Vice Chancellor of Human Resources
  • Drew Schlosser
• Executive Director of Student Support Services 
  • Bethany Bilyeu

Email the UIS Threat Assessment Team chair at threatassessment@uis.edu.