After sex assault charges emerged, private school takes measures to update prevention, response.
RELEASE: It’s On Us Campaign Launches New PSA ‘We Can’ and Official Partner School Initiative
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 15, 2016 Press release available here Kicking off today, It’s On Us will world premiere its new PSA titled “We Can,” highlighting ways that we can intervene and be active bystanders. The PSA features real life heroes who have stepped in to stop sexual assaults. In tandem, MTV will roll-out four […]
Culture of Respect Offers Higher Education a Tool for Weighing Sexual Violence Prevention Options
It is not just those of us who work in higher education, but stakeholders throughout the United States who are paying attention to sexual violence on college and university campuses. At institutions across the country, administrators are working with students, faculty and staff to increase reporting, provide trauma-informed services to survivors, and prevent violence by […]
Coming fall 2016! Culture of Respect launches new tools and programs for higher ed
Culture of Respect will launch a variety of tools and resources to augment colleges’ ability to comprehensively and holistically prevent and respond to sexual violence.
Lenient Sentence for Rape at Stanford
A letter to the Editor, Re: “Outrage Over Sentencing in Rape Case at Stanford” (news article, June 7).
NASPA Acquires Culture of Respect
December 2015 We are delighted to share exciting news about the future direction of Culture of Respect. NASPA, the national nonprofit organization of student affairs administrators in higher education, will be acquiring our organization in the coming weeks. NASPA represents 2,000 colleges and universities and over 15,000 individual college staff members; no organization is better […]
Awareness to Action: A Conversation With David Lisak
November 2015 “If higher education steps up to its moral obligation, it can make a historic contribution to the struggle to contain sexual violence. No other institution is as well placed to take us into a new and far more sophisticated era of education and prevention. No other institution has the concentration of expertise needed […]
A Year of Partnership and Progress
October 2015 One year ago we launched Culture of Respect and embarked on a journey to make a tangible impact on the national movement to end campus sexual assault. Undoubtedly, 2014-2015 has been a year of great advancement in the national dialogue concerning campus sexual assault, an issue that exists at the intersection of education, […]
Study Reaffirms Need for Comprehensive Approach to Sexual Assault Prevention and Response on Campuses
September 2015 “In four years of college, more than one-fourth of undergraduate women at a large group of leading universities said they had been sexually assaulted by force or when they were incapacitated, according to one of the largest studies of its kind, released Monday.” New York Times, 1 in 4 Women Experience Sex Assault […]
Implementing the CORE Blueprint Pilot Program
August 2015 As students pack their bags and head to college, Culture of Respect is implementing its CORE (Culture of Respect Engagement) Blueprint Pilot Program on 14 diverse campuses across the United States. What exactly does this mean and why is this a BIG development in the fight against campus rape? Because we all know […]