William L. Kibler, Ph.D.

Maureen Connolly, MBA

Brian Van Brunt, Ed.D.

Carolyn Reinach Wolf, Esq.

WILLIAM L. KIBLER, Ph.D.

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William L. Kibler, Ph.D.

Dr. Bill Kibler serves as the Vice President for Student Affairs and Professor of Counselor Education at Mississippi State University.  He has over thirty years of experience in student affairs administration, serving at the University of Florida, Texas A&M University, and Mississippi State.  Dr. Kibler oversees the University Crisis Action Team and commands the Incident Command Center.  He earned a bachelors degree in economics and masters and specialist degrees in counselor education from the University of Florida, and a doctorate in educational administration from Texas A&M University. 

Dr. Kibler has developed expertise in numerous areas, including academic integrity, student rights and responsibilities, student conduct and judicial affairs, and crisis response. He has co-authored a book on academic integrity and co-authored and edited a book on student conduct and discipline.  He has several published book chapters and articles in the areas of academic integrity, student conduct and judicial affairs, and student affairs administration.  Dr. Kibler received the D. Parker Young Award from the Association for Student Judicial Affairs in recognition of outstanding scholarly and research contributions in the areas of higher education law and judicial affairs.  He has consulted with numerous leading universities on student conduct policies, legal issues, academic integrity, and other topics. 

Dr. Kibler has provided leadership in a number of professional associations.  He was a founder and served as President of the Association for Student Judicial Affairs (ASJA).  He was also a founder and served as President of the Center for Academic Integrity (CAI).   He has served in several leadership roles, including national conference chair, of the National Association for Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA).  He served as an Associate Editor of the College Student Affairs Journal and currently serves on the editorial board of the NASPA Journal.

Consulting Topics

1. Campus Crisis Response/Emergency Management/Incident Command
2. Campus safety and security
3. Media relations – including media response during crises
4. Psychological / Medical withdrawal policies and procedures
5. Proactive risk management in working with students and student organizations
6. Campus Conduct Administration
7. Campus conduct proceedings
8. First Amendment Issues on college campuses
9. Academic Integrity and Honor Codes
10. Conduct Code and Honor Code reviews and analysis
11. Hazing
12. Expert Witness Services

Maureen Connolly, MBA

Maureen Connolly, MBA

Ms. Connolly is a seasoned administrator with sixteen years executive level experience in the college/university market, for both non-profit institutions as well as for-profit proprietary schools.

As a researcher, she focuses on emergency and crisis management in K-20 schools. Her specialty is assisting schools in evaluating the effectiveness of their emergency plans, helping to align administrative perception and frontline realities.

United States Coast Guard Auxiliarist, Suffolk County CERT member, FEMA disaster reservist, Ms. Connolly holds a B.S. in Radiological Health Science, an M.B.A., and her doctoral work is in Educational Foundations, Leadership & Policy.

Brian Van Brunt, Ed.D.

Brian Van Brunt, Ph.D.

Dr. Van Brunt is a Certified Forensic Counselor and has worked in the counseling field for over fourteen years. He served as Director of Counseling at New England College from 2001-2007 and currently serves as Director of Counseling and Testing at Western Kentucky University. His counseling style draws from a variety of approaches, though primarily from the humanistic/person-centered style of treatment with its emphasis on warmth, compassion, empathy, unconditional positive regard, individual choice and personal responsibility. He is a certified QPR suicide prevention trainer and trained in BASICS alcohol intervention. Brian is also a certified trainer in John Byrnes' Aggression Management program.

Brian has presented nationally on counseling ethics, mandated counseling, and testing and assessment for the American College Counseling Association (ACCA), Association of College and University Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD), American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and the National Association of Forensic Counselors (NAFC). He has presented on web site design at the Georgia College Counseling Association (GCCA) conference in 2007 and was awarded the American College Health Association Innovation Grant for his work on New England College’s website. He has taught graduate classes in counseling theory, ethics, testing and assessment and program evaluation. He has taught undergraduate classes in adjustment and personal growth, deviance and counseling theory.

He completed his doctorate from Argosy University in Sarasota Florida (formerly the University of Sarasota) in counseling psychology, finished his masters degree from Salem State College in counseling and psychological services and received a bachelors in psychology from Gordon College.

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Carolyn Reinach Wolf, Esq.

Carolyn Reinach Wolf, Esq.

Carolyn Reinach Wolf is a senior partner of the Abrams law firm on Long Island, NY and is responsible for the mental health law practice area.  She holds a J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law, an M.S. in Health Services Administration from the Harvard School of Public Health and an M.B.A. in Management from the Hofstra University School of Business.  She is admitted to practice in New York State and Federal Courts as well as the U.S. Supreme Court.  Prior to practicing law, Ms. Wolf is a former hospital administrator and Director of Risk Management.

Ms. Wolf’s practice concentrates in the areas of mental health and health care law, representing mental health and health care professionals, major hospital systems and community hospitals, institutional and community outpatient programs, skilled nursing facilities, higher education counseling centers, individuals and families.  Her expertise includes mental hygiene law, including retention and treatment over objection psychiatric cases, mental health warrants, capacity determinations, informed consent and medical treatment cases, confidentiality and release of records matters, interaction with law enforcement in health care facilities and institutions of higher learning, Kendra’s Law applications (Assisted Out-Patient Treatment Orders), Article 81 and 17-A guardianship proceedings, civil and criminal litigation and negotiation specific to mental health issues, consultation and advice in navigating the mental health system and legal interventions in the inpatient, outpatient and campus counseling treatment settings.  She also consults with health care institutions on issues of end of life decision making, development of ethics committees, advance directives, and institutional review boards.

Ms. Wolf is a frequently invited speaker and a consultant to college and university counseling centers and administrators throughout the country regarding mental health law issues.  These issues include: the increasing rate of student suicides, serious mental illness on campus, drug and alcohol abuse, date rape, law enforcement, confidentiality, parental notification, documentation and the increasing liability of campus staff, administrators, mental health professionals and the institutions themselves. 

She has developed seminars, published many articles for professional journals, and lectured extensively in these and other areas of mental health and health care law,  providing education to professionals in all legal, medical, and educational disciplines, health care providers,  attorneys, laypersons and  members of the judiciary. 

Ms. Wolf has and continues to hold elected positions in the Association for Healthcare Risk Management of New York State: President-elect, 2006, President, 2007, Chairperson of the Education Committee; Nassau County Bar Association, Hospital and Health Law Committee (Vice Chairperson);  New York State Bar Committee on Mental Health Issues (Co-Chairperson).  She is also an active member of the Article 81 Advisory Committee, New York County (Co-Chairperson “Integrated Guardianship Part” Subcommittee), Healthcare Executives Club, American Counseling Association, American College Counseling Association and the National Association of College and University Attorneys.  Ms. Wolf also serves as Counsel to County Coalitions of Mental Health Centers.

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