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Public Safety hires new director
John Jenkins and Kevin Smith
Issue date: 4/27/07 Section: News
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After a semester-long search, Guilford has appointed Sam Hawley as the new director of public safety.
Hawley took office on April 16 and has already excited the campus life office.
"He was an outstanding candidate and I think he'll really give some direction over there that has been missing," said Dean of Campus Life Aaron Fetrow. "It's been a little bit in flux for the top leaders over there; we wanted somebody stable."
This past year public safety has been through three directors. Former Director Reginald Hayes resigned in the fall. Public Safety Coordinator Kiefer Bradshaw took the interim position until Hawley was hired.
Hawley has had extensive experience overseeing security measures in Greensboro. Before taking the director's position at Guilford, he was the security manager at Lincoln Financial downtown. He has also had director positions for security at the Wellspring Retirement Community and at First Citizens Bank.
Now that there is a permanent director, Fetrow looks forward to his department developing an even tighter bond with public safety.
"When you have turnover it's hard," said Fetrow. "What I want to see is an even stronger relationship between campus life and public safety … there should be a really good interaction between the public safety director, the coordinator of public safety, the officers and the RAs."
Some students are even looking for changes in the way public safety works now that there is a new director. Junior Brett McDonough hopes public safety can review its bike policy.
"The whole taking everybody's bike thing really bothered me a bit. They dealt with the mistake very well after they realized they had made one. However, I think their reasoning for breaking hundreds of locks and taking hundreds of bikes is lame in the first place," said McDonough. "I hope, now that there is a new director, there will be less confusion about things like that."
Fetrow said that public safety is important to Guilford's learning environment.
Hawley took office on April 16 and has already excited the campus life office.
"He was an outstanding candidate and I think he'll really give some direction over there that has been missing," said Dean of Campus Life Aaron Fetrow. "It's been a little bit in flux for the top leaders over there; we wanted somebody stable."
This past year public safety has been through three directors. Former Director Reginald Hayes resigned in the fall. Public Safety Coordinator Kiefer Bradshaw took the interim position until Hawley was hired.
Hawley has had extensive experience overseeing security measures in Greensboro. Before taking the director's position at Guilford, he was the security manager at Lincoln Financial downtown. He has also had director positions for security at the Wellspring Retirement Community and at First Citizens Bank.
Now that there is a permanent director, Fetrow looks forward to his department developing an even tighter bond with public safety.
"When you have turnover it's hard," said Fetrow. "What I want to see is an even stronger relationship between campus life and public safety … there should be a really good interaction between the public safety director, the coordinator of public safety, the officers and the RAs."
Some students are even looking for changes in the way public safety works now that there is a new director. Junior Brett McDonough hopes public safety can review its bike policy.
"The whole taking everybody's bike thing really bothered me a bit. They dealt with the mistake very well after they realized they had made one. However, I think their reasoning for breaking hundreds of locks and taking hundreds of bikes is lame in the first place," said McDonough. "I hope, now that there is a new director, there will be less confusion about things like that."
Fetrow said that public safety is important to Guilford's learning environment.
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