Welcome to Pellissippi State Community College.
I'm Dr. Anthony Wise, the president.
Thank you for trusting Pellissippi State with your college education.
Your safety is
a high priority for us here at Pellissippi State, and we're very fortunate
to have a safe campus environment and certainly we want to keep it that way.
Part of maintaining a safe campus environment is promoting awareness among
students and how to keep themselves and others safe.
Please take a few moments to
meet key members of the college community who are here to promote your safety.
Our department motto is to protect and serve the campus community, and most of what we
do is service related.
We don't have a whole lot of crime on our campuses, but if you'd like to see the actual
crime statistics, you can go to our campus police website and click on daily crime report.
There, you can find daily crime statistics for the past sixty days.
You can click on "Annual Security Report" to see crime statistics for each campus for
the past five years.
You'll also find safety and security information contained in the annual security report.
Like most colleges across the country, larceny is the crime that's reported most often on
our campuses.
And larceny is generally stolen property that is left unattended.
Please keep that in mind, and don't leave your property unattended on campus.
Our students, faculty, and staff are our greatest resource for keeping everyone safe on our
campuses.
Please, if you see something that's just not right, call the campus police office at 694-6646
from any campus.
I also recommend that you put our campus police phone number in your cell phone so you're
prepared in case of an emergency.
Remember, if you see something, please say something.
Give us a call.
At Pellissippi State, we believe that campus safety is everyone's responsibility.
A few years ago, we adopted a slogan similar to other colleges and cities throughout the
country; see something, say something.
So, if you see something that occurs on campus, please make sure that you're doing your part
to be an active participant in our campus safety procedures.
In order to be an active bystander, you'll have to fight against the bystander effect,
which is a natural, social phenomenon that occurs when people are in groups, where people
diffuse responsibility for intervention because they believe that someone else is going to
step in.
Sometimes, you have to be the person to step in and accept that responsibility for yourself,
and we encourage you to do so while you're at Pellissippi State, if it's safe to do so.
Bystander intervention methods fall into four different categories.
We have, first, direct, where you directly intervene into a situation.
You go up to someone, you say something, you put yourself between two people that might
be involved in an altercation, that would be a direct intervention.
Next, we have delegate.
Delegation might be where you have a couple of your friends and you see a situation that's
not going so well, so you group together to confront the situation.
Delegation might also be contacting the police or someone else who is in authority to respond
to the situation and intervene.
Third, we have distract, and distract is just that; to cause a scene, to pull attention
away from whatever's going on over here that might be harmful; put the attention somewhere
else so that somebody might have the opportunity to intervene and provide assistance.
The fourth is delay.
In a delayed intervention method, you might witness something, you might see something,
and then after the fact follow up with the impacted individuals to let them know that
you're there for them.
Regardless of which manner you choose to intervene, please make sure you're reporting that information
back to us at Pellissippi State.
We want to make sure that we're able to assist students that have been impacted by negative
behavior.
The mission of our department is to provide a safe and secure environment for our faculty,
staff, and students, and we accomplish that by being proactive.
You'll notice our officers walking around campus 24/7, here on the Hardin Valley campus
and at our Strawberry Plains campus.
You'll also see our officers during normal class hours at the site campuses.
So feel free to talk to us, we want to get to know you, our job is to be here for you,
and what we're looking to do is provide that environment so you feel safe and secure here
on campus.
One of the services we provide is lost and found.
If you find you're missing an item, please check with us, we probably have it.
We'll send you an email if we can identify you, so we encourage you to mark your items
in some way so we can find you and send you an email.
We also provide services in our parking lot with lockouts and with jump starts.
If you lock your keys in your car we'll be glad to assist you, and if you need a jump
start, we can come out with a jump box and get you started.
You can text us from your mobile device with our text a tip.
Dial 672-83 and precede your message with "PSCCTips" and we'll be able to send somebody
to you to answer your concerns.
As I said before, a safe campus is a cooperative effort.
I encourage you to get to know our officers that you see walking around campus, which
you will, and I encourage you to get to know us.
We want to get to know you, and we look forward to seeing you at graduation.
Sometimes our students experience issues off campus
that affect their ability to be successful on campus and many of these issues
are
addressed by the Campus Save Act.
Because of the Campus Save Act
Pellissippi State is promoting the awareness of domestic violence, dating
violence, sexual assault, and stalking
We are also providing our students with tips on how to prevent these things from
happening.
We are fortunate to have resources in our community like the Family
Justice Center to help us meet these goals.
The Family Justice Center is one place people can call or come to find all
kinds of services for domestic violence.
Here at the Family Justice Center people
can call in and can talk to someone over the phone or they can actually stop
in and talk to an advocate about safety planning.
They can talk to the law
enforcement about the legal options of warrants or takeout order protection.
We
have Legal Aid of East Tennessee here who can provide free lawyers.
We have
Department Children's Services here on staff.
Domestic violence is actually more than just a fight
between husband and wife.
It's forms of abuse that occur between people who
are related by blood or marriage, people who are dating, or simply people living together
such as roommates
Well the early forms usually is emotional abuse.
That could be criticizing, or tearing down someone's self-esteem.
From there can go through psychological, it's the mind games or someone's being threatened
or simply being publicly humiliated.
We have sexual abuse that's being forced to
have sex when you don't want to.
Financial is where the abuser will
actually buy things for the victim to try to make them feel obligated
and lastly is physical.
Physical can start up very
simple with breaking objects punching holes in sheetrock to finally a simple grab
of the wrist and escalates to push, a shove, and finally hit.
There are three basic
warning signs of an abusive relationship.
Extreme jealousy, controlling behavior, and isolation.
Of the three types of the basic warning signs of an abusive relationship we first
have
extreme jealousy and that's where someone is always watching to see who the
person is talking to,
Controlling behavior, their constantly having someone call them as they get into class or
as soon as they get out out of class, before people to go to work, get off from work.
They are constantly
tracking them.
And lastly is isolation where the abuser is cutting the victim off
from help from, could be counselors at school because people can actually give them resources.
A scenario that could happen at Pellissippi State is one of the students is in class and
one of their
classmates comes in who might be troubled and so the student begins to
ask them "What's going on?" and then they discover that they're being hurt or
they're being mentally beaten down by somebody and so that's a way to share
with them that they can go The Family Justice Center or there's people at
Pellissippi State counselors are trained on where to go for resources.
Sexual assault is non-consensual sexual contact when force or coercion is involved in
accomplishing the act, and force means that they might be using a weapons such
as a knife or a gun.
Coercion means that they're harassing the person or
intimidating them in some way to try to get them to do what they want.
Rape is actually non-consensual sexual contact where penetration no matter how
slight is involved.
Basically the definition of consent is to give permission to agree to something
to say "This is O.K." to give approval.
When there is sexual assault involved and
there's not consent that's a problem.
People who are not able to give consent by the
law people who are mentally or physically incapacitated due to alcohol,
drugs, maybe they're passed out, maybe they're mentally not able to understand what
sex is, and so it's really important that people know when they're
drinking or using drugs or anything like that, that if the
other person is not well aware, then they're not giving a consent.
So going home with
someone is not consent, dressing in a little short dress is not consent.
None
of these things say "Yes."
They really have to have very clear communication around
this and have discussions about what you're ok doing or not doing.
If you don't hear a clear yes, do not proceed.
You wanna know it's not your fault and seek counseling and attention, physical attenion
at the doctor.
First and foremost, finding a safe place.
Knowing that at that point your body is like a crime scene,
so you want to it as quickly as possible
go to a hospital or to a rape crisis center within 72 hours.
It is super important to get counseling, even just calling.
If they're not ready to go right away
victims will have most likely have some aftermath emotional sort of feelings
afterwards where they can have depression, nightmares, PTSD sort of things,
post-traumatic stress disorder, trouble sleeping, maybe just see the person on campus
and get scared, so it's really important that they get counseling and
assistance for themselves and know it's not their fault.
If you have a friend come to you and say
that they think that happens to them it has happened to them it's really really
important that they get help, so helping that person feel safe, sitting with
them,
letting them talk, believing them is really really important.
Stalking is really like when someone is just crossing someone's boundaries.
They're just pursuing them in a relentless way.
That can happen between people who don't even know each other.
You know have someone who's obsessed with someone they met at a party.
And now they're following them everywhere, texting them or calling them, or finding them
on social media, or photographing them.
And it's making the victim feel really uncomfortable.
It can also happen in dating relationships.
Somebody who has broken up and one person doesn't want to let it go.
They just keep texting them or calling them and pursuing them.
Showing up where they are.
And that person just feels like no place is safe and its very intimidating.
So if that is happening, they really need to be sure to talk to someone on campus, an
officer, a counselor, and they do have things in place at Pellissippi State to help with that.
Let's talk about sexual misconduct for a moment: that includes things like sexual assault,
dating violence, domestic violence and of course, stalking.
There are some options for a person who is subjected to that type of behavior
If the person wants the report to be made confidentially, they need to get in
touch with one of the counselors that are supervised by Dr. Elizabeth Firestone.
If, on the other hand, they want to file an institutional complaint, come directly to me,
or any member of the staff here for that matter.
The information will be piped to me.
I will make sure that the appropriate steps are taken.
Remember, when a person is subjected to that behavior our primary concern are these: that
That the person is safe, that they were provided the support they need to
get through this period and then at that point we get into the investigative process.
My focus is on making sure that we have programs in place to prevent or
respond to cases of gender-based discrimination.
We won't tolerate it,
and we'll take action that's immediate, effective, prompt, and thorough in response to those types of cases.
Pellissippi State is a safe community, and we encourage you to be an active participant in
our campus safety efforts.
No matter which one of our campuses you call your educational home, we have services and
resources available to you.
If you notice behaviors that are of concern, or if you have been impacted by someone else's behavior,
please let us know.
We're here for you, and we want you to be successful.
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