United Educators Interviews Caron About Peer Education at UMaine
Sandra Caron, a University of Maine professor of family relations and human sexuality, spoke with United Educators about peer education at UMaine for the article, “Student-to-student interactions help campuses manage risks.” Caron said when she came to UMaine in 1988, she focused peer education on visible groups such as athletic teams and Greek organizations. In 1990, she found the Greek Peer Education Program and Athletes for Sexual Responsibility. In 2004, she spun off another group, Male Athletes Against Violence, according to the report. “Universities benefit because they have students who are standing up to other students and trying to change the campus from within, as opposed to me as a professor going to a residence hall and talking,” Caron said.