Friday, March 28, 2014

Michelle Issadore, SCOPE Executive Director, quoted in Inside Higher Ed

At Night, Burgers Beat Beer

Most late-night programming – arts and crafts, board games, comedians and the like – is geared toward students who already choose not to drink, said Michelle Issadore, executive director of the School and College Organization for Prevention Educators.

“This is the first I’ve seen that sort of takes into account that students may be partying,” Issadore said. “This is a way of getting them home, perhaps earlier, before more abuses take place.”

Such a program might not be as successful at a large research university, Issadore said, because students there might have an entire city just a few steps away. But it could be a promising model for small liberal arts colleges, she said, if the anecdotal evidence holds true. "I think that would be really promising data."


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Friday, March 21, 2014

Saundra K. Schuster, NCHERM Group Partner, featured on MySanAntonio.com

Expert Discusses Sexual Assault Policies with Trinity Students
In the wake of students calling for changes in Trinity University's handling of sexual assaults, the university brought national expert Saundra Schuster to campus Thursday to discuss sexual assault policies and campus climate.

About 180 students filled Chapman Auditorium for an evening forum with Schuster, who said Trinity was moving in a “positive direction” and urged them to voice their concerns with the understanding that “the university is engaging in a reasonably fair process.”

Schuster was part of the institutional response to a more heated forum in February that drew about 200 students who grilled administrators about campus police procedures, the appeal process and the appropriateness of student discipline decisions.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

ATIXA Leadership Invited to the White House

On March 17, ATIXA's leadership was invited to meet with officials from the Office of the Vice President and Office of Violence Against Women. Click here to read our takeaways from the visit.