Chancellor Randy Woodson and two co-chairs will lead a committee to review security policies and procedures at all UNC-System campuses.  

According to Woodson, the Board of Governors is calling for a system-wide review of its 16 universities and two high schools. 

Woodson and co-chair, Chancellor Harold Martin of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University are in charge of a committee of three working groups of leaders from across the system, such as academic leaders, police officers and legal counsel.

 “Chancellor Martin and I are leading the whole effort, and there’s a working group related to campus public safety, one on security reporting and awareness and the third is on responding to offenses against persons, things like sexual harassment”

Woodson said it was not one event that sparked the review.

“I wouldn’t blame it on any one institution, but there’s been some issues,” Woodson said. “I think there’s just a national growing awareness particularly in areas like harassment and intimidation and those kinds of things that are sort of a national concern.”

According to Woodson, the review is an attempt to evaluate all the current policies and practices of each campus to ensure that every campus is doing what it needs to provide a safe and secure environment for its students, faculty and staff.  

Woodson said the University is a fit leader for others in the system when it comes to security. 

“It’s an attempt to share best practices and to ensure that all of our campuses are safe,” Woodson said. “A campus like N.C. State is so large and has been at this business for a long time … and can help a lot of other campuses with security issues.” 

 The task force is in its first days of development, and the committee of leaders will have its first meeting Oct. 1.

“It’s just getting started we haven’t even met,” Woodson said.

It will be several months before the committee will have a final report to submit to the Board of Governors. 

“I’m confident that N.C. State has appropriate policies and procedures in place, but we can always get better,” Woodson said.