| PEACE OUTside Campus presented at a regional International Town & Gown Summit on Student Housing and Safety at The University at Buffalo on Friday, June 26, 2015. The event gathered together city administrators, college administrators, city police, campus security, private and public foundations with a singular mission to focus on increasing safety for students in their off campus housing. |  Beth Bagwell, Dan Ryan, Kristen Bonistall, Elise Murphy |
The summit started off with Jennifer Abelson, an Investigative Reporter from the Boston Globe, whose series called Shadow Campus was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. This series exposed the unsafe and illegal housing conditions in which many students in Boston are being forced to live. Inspired by the death of Binland Lee, a Boston University senior who died in 2013 after being trapped in the attic of her off campus apartment, the team began investigating the living conditions of thousands of students living off campus. What they found was a pattern of building code violations, hazardous living conditions, slum landlords, illegal rooms, and extremely high rent. For more information about Shadow Campus, click here.
POC Board Member and Co-Founder, Kristen Bonistall, and Staff Members, Elise Murphy and Kari Blackburn, presented Lindsey's story and PEACE OUTside Campus' own outreach programs, such as the Certified Off Campus Housing Safety Guidelines, College Chapters, Living Off Campus 101, Teens 'N Transition, Identify The Risk, and our Internship program.
Beth Bagwell, Executive Director of the International Town and Gown Association also presented ways in which her organization is helping college administrations combat this issue of student safety. To learn more about International Town and Gown and their vast resources, click here. The summit was capped off with a brainstorming session in which participants came together to discuss best practices and come up with new ideas for everyone to take back to their city, college, or foundation.
Our thanks to Dan Ryan, Off Campus Student Services Director at The University at Buffalo, for hosting the event. Be sure to check out what Dan and UB are doing to keep their students safe, click here.
POC Board Member and Co-Founder, Kristen Bonistall, and Staff Members, Elise Murphy and Kari Blackburn, presented Lindsey's story and PEACE OUTside Campus' own outreach programs, such as the Certified Off Campus Housing Safety Guidelines, College Chapters, Living Off Campus 101, Teens 'N Transition, Identify The Risk, and our Internship program.
Beth Bagwell, Executive Director of the International Town and Gown Association also presented ways in which her organization is helping college administrations combat this issue of student safety. To learn more about International Town and Gown and their vast resources, click here. The summit was capped off with a brainstorming session in which participants came together to discuss best practices and come up with new ideas for everyone to take back to their city, college, or foundation.
Our thanks to Dan Ryan, Off Campus Student Services Director at The University at Buffalo, for hosting the event. Be sure to check out what Dan and UB are doing to keep their students safe, click here.
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