Allan to lead second webinar on hazing prevention
University of Maine Professor of Higher Education Elizabeth Allan this week will lead the second of two free webinars on hazing prevention, sponsored by the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Healthy Students.
A December webinar led by Allan featured a welcome and call to action by then Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
“Hazing is not some kind of harmless or acceptable tradition,” Duncan said. “We as educators must work — and must work together — with our students to create new norms around group bonding and implement programs that prevent hazing from occurring.”
The follow-up webinar will be held Thursday, March 3, from 2–3:30 p.m. The goal is the help participants:
- Define hazing and identify three key components of hazing
- Consider how hazing falls within a spectrum of interpersonal violence and how it differs from bullying behavior
- Articulate challenges and opportunities related to hazing prevention
- Describe how key principles of prevention science inform a comprehensive approach to hazing prevention
- Draw upon the ecological model to provide examples of risk and protective factors for hazing on multiple levels
- Identify key stakeholder groups to engage in hazing prevention
- Articulate how evidence-base in other fields has informed emerging approaches to hazing prevention
- Describe examples of current hazing prevention initiatives
- Delineate what educators can do to initiate and sustain hazing prevention efforts in their college, university, and/or schools
Other participants in the upcoming webinar include: Tim Marchell, director of the Skorton Center for Health Initiatives, Cornell University; Anne Reber, dean of students, Texas A&M University; Germayne Graham, associate director of the LEAD Scholars Program, University of Central Florida; and Elliot Hopkins, director of educational services, National Federation of State High School Associations.
The first webinar Allan hosted for the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments is archived online.
More information about Thursday’s webinar, including how to register, is online.