TY - JOUR
T1 - University student death response plans using a structural management approach provide effective coordinated institutional action
AU - Cusick, Anne
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/553829
U2 - 10.1080/07481180802138902
DO - 10.1080/07481180802138902
M3 - Article
SN - 0748-1187
VL - 32
SP - 550
EP - 587
JO - Death Studies
JF - Death Studies
IS - 6
ER -