Team Information
The Team’s responsibilities include considering and recommending community responses to reports of bias incidents, as well as serving an educational role in helping to cultivate community values of inclusion, civility, and mutual respect. The Team meets monthly to review incidents, strategize on education and prevention, and discuss campus climate.
What are the primary functions of the Team?
The primary functions of the Team are to:
- Engage community members in education, dialogue, and awareness so as to foster a learning, working, and living community free from hate, discrimination, harassment, and intolerance;
- Receive timely and sensitive information on a need to know basis;
- Assess the circumstances of the incident as thoroughly and quickly as possible;
- Make referrals to appropriate campus officials so that action can be taken- the Team does not conduct investigations into criminal allegations or alleged policy violations; and
- Assist in implementation of a coordinated and appropriate community response (engaging partners as needed) and communicate with the community as appropriate.
Team Members
Name | Title | Phone | |
Jesse Edwards | Assistant Director, Equal Opportunity | (508)626-4052 | |
Eric Nguyen | Director, Center for Inclusive Excellence | (508)215-5888 | |
Lori Bihler | Associate Professor, History | (508)626-4835 | |
Glenn Cochran | Associate Dean of Students | (508)626-4631 | |
Benjamin Day | Director, Counseling Center, Framingham State University | (508)626-4640 | |
Kim Dexter | Assistant Vice President of Human Resources & Equal Opportunity | (508)215-5859 | |
Jay Hurtubise | Director of Community Standards | (508)626-4604 | |
Jen Lin | Associate Professor, Psychology and Philosophy | (508)626-4844 | |
Kelly Matthews | Associate Professor, English | (508)626-4815 | |
Wardell Powell | Faculty Fellow/ Interim Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer; Assistant Professor, Education | (508)626-4830 | |
Mohammad Salmassi | Professor, Mathematics | (508)626-4751 | |
Harpreet Singh | FSU Police Department, Command Staff | (508)626-4911 | |
Gene E. Westerlind | FSU Police Department, Detective/Community Resource Officer | (508)626-4911 |