Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

["Keith E. Edwards" <>]

In my experience, sustaining these programs addressing men's role in 
sexual assault is often difficult and depends on the type of program 
implemented from an office based program to peer educators to student 
organizations. Jeff Cullen and Craig Alimo do a great job of addressing 
the up-sides and down-sides of each of these approaches in a PDF they 
developed a few years ago. If anyone is interested please email me off 
list and I can direct you to it.

I have worked with many campuses to establish student organizations 
focused on men's role in ending rape and addressing the rape culture on 
campus. When college men see that they are important and crucial in 
ending rape they rarely have places to engage in meaningful action and 
benefit from the support of other like-minded men and women. Student 
organizations can be effective and empowering places to engage in 
education, activism, and advocacy to end rape and the perpetuation of a 
rape culture. I've found that there are a few strategies and approaches 
that can really help get these organizations off the ground and help 
make them sustainable beyond a grant funding or beyond the graduation of 
a single dynamic student leader. The other upside is that they function 
at almost no financial cost to the institution. Below is a PDF of tips, 
suggestions, logistics, and things to consider in starting and 
sustaining these groups. Please let me know if you have any feedback or 
questions.
http://www.menendingrape.org/MARS%20Resources.pdf

Thanks
Keith

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*Keith E. Edwards*

*Chair, ACPA Commission for Social Justice Educators*
301-314-6622 (office)


 - http://www.myacpa.org/comm/social/