S. Daniel Carter is an internationally recognized leader in campus safety, dedicating over 30 years to creating safe and secure environments for students, faculty, and staff. Throughout his career, he has championed policy development, training initiatives, and victim advocacy, leaving a lasting impact on higher education safety. Leveraging his uniquely diverse professional experience he has led SAFE Campuses, LLC as President and Senior Consultant since 2017.
Carter spent the formative years of his career, from 1991 through 2006, working to lay the groundwork for the modern campus safety landscape. First he worked as a student advocate with Safe Campuses Now at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville from which he graduated with a BA in Political Science in 1994. Then he worked alongside the family of Jeanne Clery, for whom the Clery Act is named in memory, at Security On Campus, Inc. (“SOC” now the Clery Center) to help further develop and implement the law including amendments in 1992, 1998, 2000, and 2008.
While at SOC he worked with the U.S. Department of Education as a “non-federal” negotiator during the 1999 Negotiated Rulemaking process that developed what remains to this day the primary regulatory foundation for the Clery Act. Building on this process, Carter then participated in the multidisciplinary stakeholder working group that helped the Education Department create The Handbook for Campus Crime Reporting first published in 2005 (also contributing to the 2011 and 2016 editions). He would also serve on additional rulemaking committees in 2009 and 2014.
From 2007 through 2012 Carter co-led SOC’s landmark Clery Training Seminar program, with funding from a U.S. Department of Justice grant, working to personally train over 2,000 multidisciplinary college and university personnel. In 2009 he began directly consulting with institutions to improve their campus safety. Before concluding his tenure at SOC in 2012, Carter co-led development of the proposal that would come to be enacted as the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (“VAWA”) amendments to the Clery Act significantly updating the law’s gender-based violence provisions as a companion to Title IX.
Working with the “Virginia Tech Victims” Family Outreach Foundation (“VTV”) from 2012 through 2015 Carter served as Director of the 32 National Campus Safety Initiative (32 NCSI) based on the campus of George Mason University. As 32 NCSI’s Director he brought together a multidisciplinary Advisory Council to develop a campus safety self-assessment program across nine critical areas – Alcohol and Other Drugs, Campus Public Safety, Emergency Management, Hazing, Mental Health, Missing Students, Physical Security, Sexual Violence, and Threat Assessment. 32 NCSI launched in August 2015 and is now offered by NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education in partnership with VTV.
Carter began consulting work full-time in 2016 and co-founded Safety Advisors for Educational Campuses, LLC (“SAFE Campuses, LLC”) in 2017 to bring the lessons of multidisciplinary collaboration learned throughout his career to the campus safety consulting space. SAFE Campuses, LLC, a Georgia based social entrepreneurship, has since worked with dozens of clients across the United States and as far away as South Africa to help them go beyond mere regulatory compliance and build comprehensive campus safety frameworks.
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