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).
Talking with Your Student about Sexual Violence
Colleges and universities have an obligation to share their statistics and policies around sexual violence, but parents have an important role to play as well: talking to your student before they leave for college and throughout their years on campus. Sexual violence is not an easy topic to discuss, but it is important to have […]
How can my institution become a Culture of Respect campus?
Culture of Respect, a program of NASPA, is dedicated to strengthening sexual violence prevention and response on college campuses. We offer higher education leaders a six-point strategic roadmap – the CORE Blueprint – that engages all constituent groups in implementing the leading practices to shift campus culture to one free from sexual violence. More than […]
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 […]