Flashpoint Tabletop Case Study Compendium
Prepare your institution's response to a variety of campus flashpoints
EAB’s Flashpoint Tabletop Case Study Compendium is built to prepare your institution’s key decision-makers to respond to various campus flashpoints. Tabletop exercises are excellent tools because they require only a few hours and can be conducted by existing staff (i.e., they do not require a team of externally contracted mediators).
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What are tabletop exercises?
Tabletop exercises allow institutional leaders to simulate how they would react in the event of a complex flashpoint that requires a cross-functional and multidisciplinary response, without being under the emotional and logistical pressure of an active flashpoint. Simulating the institutional response, when a real threat is not present, allows teams to identify opportunities to codify their plan of response ahead of time and refine it as needed.
Our compendium describes 11 different campus climate flashpoint scenarios. In a meeting with members of your institution’s flashpoint response team, use this compendium to prepare for possible flashpoints on your campus and determine effective responses.
Each scenario has a brief description and two discussion questions. Brainstorm possible responses to the provided scenarios to assess your institution’s readiness for potential campus climate flashpoints and develop strategies to prepare your campus’s response.
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University Flashpoint Risk Register
Controversial Events Template
Tabletop Discussion Exercise for Campus Activism
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