ZBT Honors Kim Novak for Interfraternal Service
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8/6/2015 View full size campaign FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact; Laurence A. Bolotin, Executive Director August 5, 2015 [email protected]; (317) 3341898 ZBT honors Kim Novak for interfraternal service INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity has honored hazing prevention expert and NovakTalks CEO Kim Novak with the RiegelmanJacobs Award for interfraternal service. Novak received the award Friday, July 17, 2015, at 2015 International Leadership School in Las Vegas. Left: (From left to right) Kim Novak earned the prestigious RiegelmanJacobs Award for interfraternal service from ZBT, represented by Executive Director Laurence A. Bolotin, CAE, Alpha Zeta (University of Florida) '01. Novak accepted the award July 17, 2015, at the Brotherhood for a Lifetime Recognition Dinner at 2015 International Leadership School from Past ZBT International President and Past NorthAmerican Interfraternity Conference President Richard S. Simon, Phi (University of Michigan) '43. The RiegelmanJacobs Award was created to honor a person for his or her outstanding interfraternal service. This award was named after two men, Harold Riegelman, Kappa (Cornell University) 1914, and Maurice Jacobs, Pi (University of Maine) 1917, who gave a series of gifts of commitment and leadership to their fraternities. Both served as President of the NorthAmerican Interfraternity Conference while one received the NIC's highest award, the Gold Medal. Their careers and service spanned many decades. Kim Novak is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NovakTalks and the Director of Risk Education and Prevention at Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. She is recognized as a national expert in studentfocused risk management, engaging students in campus safety efforts and hazing prevention. She has presented at national conferences and on campuses http://www.memberplanet.com/EMailCampaign/emailcampaignview.aspx?id=gvNR0r0xb98=:787925:xHXKyt9uXf6n3TZW3QyH8A==:17435:MnmjLaTU7/s=:… 1/2 8/6/2015 View full size campaign around the country on a variety of topics including: effective accountability models, critical decisionmaking strategies, hazing prevention, current issues in higher education law and policy, campus safety efforts that engage students, as well as proactive risk management. Novak served as a Center Fellow for the U.S. Department of Education Center for Alcohol Other Drugs and Violence Prevention. She has served as a presenter for the Association of Student Conduct Administration (ASCA), at the Vermont Higher Education Law Conference, the Association of Fraternity and Sorority Advisors (AFA), the Association of Fraternal Values and Leadership (AFLV) Fraternal Executive Association (FEA) and the NCAA. She has served on the Board of Directors for HazingPrevention.Org and ASCA and currently on the advisory board for the Vermont Legal Issues in Higher Ed Law Conference. She is the Chair of the Fraternity Executive's Association's Interfraternity Institute and Dean of Faculties for HazingPrevention.Org's hazing prevention institute, which was named in her honor in 2010 as the Kimberly Novak Hazing Prevention Institute. In 2008 Novak served as an advisor on the national ResponseAbility Bystander Intervention Project. Additionally, she has served as the lead editor of the Student Risk Management Compendium published by National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA). Prior to founding NovakTalks, Novak served as the Program Coordinator for Risk Management and Organizational Development at Texas A&M University. There she led the implementation of the University's internationally recognized proactive risk management plan for student organizations. She then served as the Director for Student and Campus Community Development at Arizona State University, Downtown Phoenix campus. There her primary responsibilities involved the oversight and development of administration and supervision of a team that led Student Conduct Programs, High Risk Behavior Education, Student Affairs Risk Management, Student Advocacy Services, Crisis Intervention and Response as well as Campus Safety for the new urban campus. Novak is a member of Delta Gamma Fraternity. If you would like to make a gift in honor of Kim Novak, please donate to the Zeta Beta Tau Foundation at zbt.org/donate. Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity was founded in 1898 in New York City as the world’s first Jewish fraternity. ZBT is a Brotherhood of Kappa Nu, Phi Alpha, Phi Sigma Delta, Phi Epsilon Pi and Zeta Beta Tau. ZBT is represented on more than 90 campuses across North America and has close to 140,000 undergraduate and alumni brothers throughout the world. ### Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity 3905 Vincennes Road Indianapolis, IN 46268 Add us to your address book You may unsubscribe if you prefer not to receive future emails from us | Privacy Policy http://www.memberplanet.com/EMailCampaign/emailcampaignview.aspx?id=gvNR0r0xb98=:787925:xHXKyt9uXf6n3TZW3QyH8A==:17435:MnmjLaTU7/s=:… 2/2.