Saunie Schuster, Partner, and Jeremy Inabinet, Affiliated Consultant, invited to provide training and consultation for grantees at the Department of Justice Violence Against Women Training

Saunie Schuster, Partner, and Jeremy Inabinet, Affiliated Consultant, invited to provide training and consultation for grantees at the annual Department of Justice Violence Against Women Technical Training Institute in New Orleans.

NCHERM Group President & CEO, Brett Sokolow, quoted in New Republic

Sexual Assault at God's Harvard

“As a private campus, it’s outside of federal influence. They can do whatever they want,” says Brett Sokolow, an attorney and president of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management. “If you’re a female student, and you elect to enroll at a campus that does not provide any of the federal protections that attach to other colleges and universities, you need to know that going in.”

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NCHERM Group Partners, W. Scott Lewis and Saundra K. Schuster, Received Association for Student Conduct Administration Awards

We are pleased to announce that two members of The NCHERM Group received awards from ASCA this year. Please join us in congratulating NCHERM Partner Scott Lewis, who received the Distinguished Service Award, and NCHERM Partner Saunie Schuster for receiving the D. Parker Young Award for outstanding ongoing scholarly research contributions to the fields of higher education and student judicial affairs. Thank you both for your hard work and contributions to the field!

Jane Stapleton, NCHERM Group Affiliated Consultant, quoted in The New York Times

Stepping Up to Stop Sexual Assault

Jane Stapleton, a University of New Hampshire researcher who runs bystander intervention programs at colleges around the country and in Europe, tells students they’ll need to be creative about outmaneuvering aggressors. Among the diversions she discusses: suddenly turning on the lights at a party or turning off the music; accidentally spilling a drink on the guy; forming a conga line and pulling him away from the woman he’s bothering and onto the dance floor. One of her favorites came from a young woman who approached her drunken girlfriend and said, loudly, “Here’s the tampon you asked for.”


A definite mood killer, says Ms. Stapleton. The goal is to stop bad behavior before it crosses the line from drunken partying to sexual assault. “We’re definitely not looking to create Captain Bystander here,” Ms. Stapleton says. In the best of circumstances, a drunken aggressor won’t realize he’s been had.


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