Workplace Violence

Workplace Threat Assessment Expert Available to Comment on Yale Murder

The news that that a young Yale scientist was strangled before being stuffed
into a wall, and that a lab technician obsessed with cleanliness is allegedly
responsible for the killing, raises profound questions regarding workplace
safety and professional responsibility. 

The American College, the nation's only institution with a president devoted
to researching workplace violence and threat prevention, is available to share
its expertise with reporters covering this story.

Interview Offering
Dr. Larry Barton, president and holder of the O. Alfred Granum Chair in
Management at The American College, teaches threat assessment at The FBI
Academy.  He is available for interviews regarding the arrest of a Yale
University employee who has been charged in the murder of student Annie Le.

Dr. Barton is the nation's only college president whose research area is
workplace violence and threat prevention.  He is a noted author and expert on
how employers must create awareness regarding behaviors at work that can lead
to violence.  Reports suggest that an obsession with cleanliness in the lab
was a key motivator in the death of Ms. Le.

Contact Information:

Interviews with Dr. Barton can be arranged by contacting him directly at
610-526-1301 or on his cell phone at 602-740-4888.  If you're not on deadline,
you can also contact Eric Gordon, Assistant Vice President for Communications
at The American College at 610.526.1450 or after business hours at
610-345-1682.

About The American College

The American College is the nation's largest non-profit educational
institution devoted to financial services.  Holding the highest level of
academic accreditation, The College has served as a valued business partner to
banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies and others for over 82 years.  The
American College's faculty represents some of the financial services
industry's foremost thought leaders.  For more information, visit
TheAmericanCollege.edu.