Brown University is launching a “campus-wide healing and recovery” initiative aimed at “ensuring a sense of physical security” following December’s deadly shooting. The Ivy League school appointed Matthew Guterl, the vice president of Brown’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion and professor of “Africana Studies,” to lead the effort.

The initiative, dubbed Brown Ever True, offers expanded psychological services and provides “meaningful opportunities” for students to provide “feedback about security infrastructure,” university president Christina Paxson announced Monday. It’s being “coordinated by an operational team led by Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Matthew Guterl.” His Office of Diversity and Inclusion will also organize “educational sessions held for staff and faculty.”

Guterl is known for his “extensive expertise in the history of race-relations, civil and human rights, and empire,” according to his Brown biography. He published a 2023 memoir, Skinfolk, about “growing up in a multiracial adoptive household” and is “presently working on a global biography of the queer, cosmopolitan, human rights activist, Roger Casement.” He “continues to be interested in writing about Neverland Ranch,” his bio states.

Brown’s decision to tap Guterl to lead the initiative comes as the university and local authorities face fierce criticism over their response to the shooting.

The university took nearly 20 minutes to send an alert to students after the shooting started and never sounded its emergency sirens. It also told students a suspect was in custody shortly after the shooting, only to retract the claim. Paxson went on to argue that campus sirens would not be used “in the case of an active shooter,” though the siren system’s webpage says otherwise.

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