UVU names retired UHP colonel Michael Rapich its first chief safety officer
Rapich will oversee campus safety operations and preparedness, a little over a year after Charlie Kirk was killed at a UVU event.
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Utah Valley University has appointed Michael Rapich, a retired Utah Highway Patrol colonel, as its first chief safety officer, Deseret News reported. [1]
Rapich will oversee campus safety operations and preparedness and work on building a culture of safety on campus, according to the university. UVU President Jon Anderson said in a university release that Rapich brings decades of public safety leadership and trusted relationships across Utah. [1]
The hire comes a little over a year after the Sept. 10 shooting of political activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor UVU gathering, and shortly after the university released an independent 158-page after-action report. The review found UVU had a solid foundation of safety policies on the day of the shooting, but said those frameworks were not always carried out in practice, with the primary gap in applying them to a controversial speaker and high-profile event. [1]
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