About Us

The Northeast Colleges and Universities Security Association (NECUSA), established in 1953, is the oldest campus law enforcement organization in the United States.

Originally intended to be a small group of campus security and police professionals coming together to share information on issues facing their campuses, the organization grew from eight loosely organized members to an organization over 400 members strong.

Members represent a broad range of institutions: public and private; four year and two year; large universities and small colleges. Some have sworn police departments and some non-sworn security or safety departments.

Although the association has no specified geographic area, member institutions are from Maine south to Maryland and west to Ohio. We have also been able to maintain members who move to positions outside of this region due to their strong ties to the organization.

NECUSA often struggles with the word "security" when discussing recruiting new members. The Board of Directors has discussed the possibility of changing the name. They toyed with dropping the word "security" or merely substituting something stronger however after many suggestions and much debate, they determined that the NECUSA acronym, in existence for over fifty years, represented more to the membership than the substance of the words contained within it.

NECUSA has become an organization that is more than merely the sum of its parts. It has the culture of a large extended family in which members may go for long periods of time with no contact but can pick up the telephone at anytime and be received warmly by the person on the other end.

The primary focus of NECUSA is two-fold: to deliver cost-effective, high quality professional development opportunities within the northeast region and to create opportunities for networking with colleagues, both in person and electronically. Many of us have forged life long friendships that started over a discussion about parking or patrol work or a cold drink after a round of golf.

In addition to providing professional development opportunities to members, NECUSA places high value on their reputation as a family organization. Conferences offer programs for spouses, partners and children and include them in all social functions. The organization leadership understands the demands of the campus law enforcement field and strives to create opportunities to involve family and friends to bridge the gaps that often exist because of the long hours and demanding work.

The organization values all of its members: institutional, associate, affiliate and sustaining (vendor). Our sustaining members often comment on the open manner in which they are received when contacting NECUSA members to make sales calls. Their support has become an important value of the organization and is reinforced at the annual conference and in publications.

2007 OFFICERS & MEMBERS
OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS





Gary Bean, President
Life Member
gbean@mail.colgate.edu


Michael McCarthy, Vice President
Director of Safety & Security
St. John Fisher College
3690 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14618-4618
(585) 385-7315
Fax (585) 385-7305
mmccarthy@sjfc.edu


William Trexler, Treasurer
Director of Security
Mount Aloysius College
7373 Admiral Peary Highway
Cresson, PA 16630-1999
(814) 886-6421
Fax: (814) 886-2978
wtrexler@mtaloy.edu



C . G. Neil McLaughlin Jr., Secretary
Chief of Police
Western CT State University
Police Department
181 White St.
Danbury, CT 06810
203-837-9308
fax 203-837-9305
mclaughlinn@wcsu.edu


Dan Songer, Director-At-Large
Director of Campus Police
University of Pittsburg at Bradford
300 Campus Drive
Bradford, PA 16701-2898
Tel: (814) 362-7509
Fax: (814) 362-0977
songer@pitt.edu




Thomas D. Horan, Director-At-Large
Director of Safety & Security
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
1150 Mt. Pleasant Road
Greensburg, PA 15601-5898
(724) 836-9866
Fax (724) 836-7480
horan@pitt.edu


James J. Bonner, Jr., Director-At-Large
Director of Public Safety
Arcadia University
450 South Easton Road
Glenside, PA 19038-3295
(215) 572-2800
Bonner@arcadia.edu

Cindy Burger
Cindy Burger, Director-At-Large
Director of Safety and Dispatch Services
Messiah College
1 College Avenue
Grantham, PA 17027-7027
(717) 691-6005 Fax (717) 796-5206
Cburger@messiah.edu


Alan Stormann, Director-At-Large
University of Maine at Orono
Major and Assistant Director for Parking and Transportation Services
Public Safety
Orono, ME 04469-5794
(207) 581-4064
Stroman@maine.edu


Timon Linn, Life Member Representative
Chief, St. John’s College
Campus Police and Security
PO Box 2800
Annapolis, MD 21404-2800
410-626-2533-
FAX: 410-626-2885
Timon.Linn@sjca.edu





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