Campus Safety Staff

Assistant Dean for Campus Life

Mead-Colegrove comes to Daemen from BMCSPEAKS LLC, a consulting company, where he presented to various groups on topics such as leadership, bias management, problem solving, and conflict resolution.  Prior to BMCSPEAKS, Mead-Colegrove served as Director of Orientation and New Student Programs at Buffalo State.  At Buffalo State, he was responsible for working collaboratively with a wide range of campus stakeholders in designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the undergraduate student orientation programs.  Most notably, Mead-Colegrove transformed the fall orientation program into a week of welcome serving 2,000+ students.  In addition, Mead-Colegrove is also a member of the FBI Buffalo Citizens Alumni Academy. 

Before joining Buffalo State, Mead-Colegrove held positions as assistant and associate director of campus life at SUNY Fredonia, where he created SUNY's first interdisciplinary minor in leadership studies.  Before his work at SUNY Fredonia, he worked in residence life at Michigan State and West Virginia University.

Mead-Colegrove earned his master of education in college counseling and college student personnel from the University at Buffalo and bachelor of science in mathematics education from SUNY Fredonia.

Doug brings to Daemen a wide range of experience in the security field including private investigations, loss prevention, security management, and as a previous Public Safety Officer at Medaille College.  Doug has extensive experience in law enforcement, serving for many years as a Police Officer for the City of Durham, North Carolina.  During his Law Enforcement career, he worked in criminal investigations, was a member of the Tactical Team and also a Bike Patrol Officer.  Additionally, Doug spent 2 years in Afghanistan as part of a State Department contract working as a trainer/adviser with the Afghan National Police.

Doug graduated from Buffalo State College with Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice.