The Baruch College Faculty Handbook

Campus Intervention Team

Last updated on 4/21/09

Direct link: www.baruch.cuny.edu/cit

Baruch’s Campus Intervention Team (CIT), which was launched in Fall 2008, acts as a support network for students in crisis at the College. The team is a coordinated point of contact to follow-up on concerns about students expressed by other members of the Baruch community.  Crisis may manifest itself in many ways, but some examples are:  

• Unusual or erratic behavior in class
• Extended absence from class by a typically engaged student
• Written work with troubling themes or references
• Verbal or written threats made by a student toward another student
• Written or verbal expressions of suicidal ideation
• Other actions that cause an alarm or call into question the safety of the student or his/her peers.

Members of Baruch College’s faculty and staff will be the first, in many situations, to witness and question troublesome student behavior.  Reporting that behavior to the Campus Intervention Team will accomplish several things.  First, it will alert us to a student in need so that we can reach out to the student and offer the appropriate support service, whether it is counseling or general health services, academic advising, disability student services or some other need.  Additionally, since any Baruch community member can report a concern, the team may know whether the student’s behavior is an isolated incident or something that is pervasive.

The core members of the Baruch Campus Intervention Team (CIT) are:

Dr. Corlisse Thomas, Chair
    Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs
Dr. Ronald Aaron
     Professor of Student Development and
     Assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs
Marco Dinovelli
     Student Affairs Coordinator
Dr. Caroline Kasnakian
     Associate Director of the Counseling Center
Shadia Sachedina
     Associate Director of Student Life

If you have not already done so, please visit the CIT website at www.baruch.cuny.edu/cit  for more information about Baruch’s Campus Intervention Team or to report a concern about a student.  We can also be reached at cit@baruch.cuny.edu  or 646-312-4570.

Please assist us in providing this essential support for Baruch students. 

Ben Corpus, Ph.D.
Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management