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University Student Death Response Plans Using a Structural Management Approach Provide Effective Coordinated Institutional Action
- Source :
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Death Studies . Jul 2008 32(6):550-587. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- Student death is an inevitable event in the long life of university communities. Although student death is uncommon, universities need to be able respond in a timely and appropriate way to bring the relationship with a deceased student to a dignified close. This article presents a review of factors previously identified in higher education and death studies literature to be useful inclusions in any university/college death response plan. It proposes that management frameworks underpin effective institutional responses to student death as they provide the organizational context for coherent multi-disciplinary action within complex policy, campus and departmental arrangements. The article reports on the development of a university death response plan that took a "structural" approach derived from the discipline of management, to the mobilizing, coordination and monitoring of resources relevant to student death in a multi-campus multi-disciplinary environment. (Contains 1 table.)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0748-1187
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Death Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ800337
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Evaluative
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07481180802138902