Add to Calendar2015-12-17 14:00:002015-12-17 14:00:00Preventing Hazing on Campus
Hazing—the act of being humiliated, degraded, abused, or endangered via alcohol consumption, humiliation, isolation, sleep deprivation, and sex acts when joining or participating in a group regardless of a student’s willingness to participate—is commonplace in American schools. In fact, nearly half (47%) of students in the United States experience hazing before entering college, and three in five college students experience some form of hazing during their higher education experience.1 These troubling activities can be curbed with appropriate interventions. An increasing body of knowledge is leading the way towards successful strategies to address hazing.
The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE), funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Healthy Students, is hosting the first in a series of webinars on December 17, 2015 from 2:00-3:30 pm (EST) focused on the latest research on hazing and implications for campus personnel. The event will feature a video introduction from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and also offer practical strategies, tools and resources to prevent hazing incidents. The information provided will support campus efforts to create a more productive and supportive learning environment.
1StopHazing website. Retrieved November 18, 2015 from: http://www.stophazing.org
Presenters
Subject matter experts for the event will include Dr. Elizabeth Allan (Professor of Higher Education, University of Maine, Orono, ME and President, StopHazing), Rasheed Ali Cromwell, Esq. (President, Harbor Institute, Washington, DC), Lauri Sidelko (Director, Student Wellness Resource Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME) and Diana Haney (Recent Graduate, University of Maine, Orono, ME).
Learning Objectives
As a result of this webinar participants will be able to:
Define hazing,
Identify three key components of hazing,
Consider how hazing falls within a spectrum of interpersonal violence,
Describe salient research findings about the nature and extent of hazing and the underlying motivations for hazing,
Articulate challenges and opportunities related to hazing prevention,
Depict examples of current hazing prevention initiatives, and
Describe how educators and community members can play a role in hazing prevention.
Audience
This webinar is appropriate for all those interested in building strategies to prevent hazing and addressing incidents of hazing. The research highlighted is drawn from higher education settings and is most applicable to those working in that field. The information gained from this webinar will also be useful to those working with students at the middle and high school levels.
Registration
To register, click on the link below. After registering you will receive an email, confirming your registration. Information on how to log in will be sent by noon EST the day of the event.
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Hazing—the act of being humiliated, degraded, abused, or endangered via alcohol consumption, humiliation, isolation, sleep deprivation, and sex acts when joining or participating in a group regardless of a student’s willingness to participate—is commonplace in American schools. In fact, nearly half (47%) of students in the United States experience hazing before entering college, and three in five college students experience some form of hazing during their higher education experience 1. These troubling activities can be curbed with appropriate interventions. An increasing body of knowledge is leading the way towards successful strategies to address hazing.
Webinar Description
The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE), funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Healthy Students, hosted a webinar on December 17, 2015 from 2:00- 3:30 pm (EST) anddiscussed the latest research on hazing and described implications for campus personnel. The event featured a video introduction from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and also offered practical strategies, tools and resources to prevent hazing incidents. The information provided aimed to support campus efforts to create a more productive and supportive learning environment.
Subject matter experts for the event included Dr. Elizabeth Allan (Professor of Higher Education, University of Maine, Orono, ME and President, StopHazing), Rasheed Ali Cromwell, Esq. (President, Harbor Institute, Washington, DC), Lauri Sidelko (Director, Student Wellness Resource Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME) and Diana Haney (Recent Graduate, University of Maine, Orono, ME).
Learning Objectives
As a result of this webinar participants were be able to:
Define hazing,
Identify three key components of hazing,
Consider how hazing falls within a spectrum of interpersonal violence,
Describe salient research findings about the nature and extent of hazing and the underlying motivations for hazing,
Articulate challenges and opportunities related to hazing prevention,
Depict examples of current hazing prevention initiatives, and
Describe how educators and community members can play a role in hazing prevention.
Audience
This webinar was appropriate for all those interested in building strategies to prevent hazing and addressing incidents of hazing. The research highlighted was drawn from higher education settings and is most applicable to those working in that field. The information gained from this webinar will also be useful to those working with students at the middle and high school levels.