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

["Joseph Vess" <>]

Dear colleagues and students,

 

As many of you know, Men Can Stop Rape recently launched our Campus Strength
Program to better support and empower college and university men, and the
faculty, staff, administrators and community members who work with them, to
end sexual assault on campus. We are very excited about the program, and
have already received tremendous participation and positive feedback from
the current affiliates and chapters, as well as many others.

 

For those of you who are not already a part of the Campus Strength Program,
I want to share with you some documents that I hope will provide enough
information to answer most of the questions you may have; I have provided
links since attachments don't always go through.

 

The program overview (available on our website at
http://www.mencanstoprape.org/usr_doc/Campus_Strength.pdf) outlines the
program structure and benefits-which include MCSR's Campus Organizing
Manual, connections to a national network of campus men's groups and offices
doing this work, publicity through MCSR's website and the Campus Strength
Newsletter, and discounts on MCSR trainings, workshops, and Strength
MediaWorks public education posters, banners and postcards. It also includes
detailed information for those who wish to bring a Men Can Stop Rape
training or workshop to your campus for even deeper support. MCSR offers a
variety of training, workshop and presentation options for students, staff
and faculty alike, ranging from two hours to three-days, to build men's
capacity to encourage and support healthier visions of masculinity and to
prevent sexism and sexual violence.

 

The other document is the inaugural Campus Strength Newsletter, available at
(http://www.mencanstoprape.org/usr_doc/CampusNewsSept08.pdf).  Among the
articles included in it are:

--Details about the first-ever Campus Strength training, to be held in
January 2009 in Washington, DC.

--Submissions from University of Illinois at Chicago and North Carolina
State University about an upcoming conference and a bystander intervention
video.

--An article from Dan Dawson at Florida State University about how they are
successfully engaging men on their campus.

--More ideas for how to start the year strong and get men engaged from the
beginning.

 

The Campus Strength Program includes schools around the US, from UC-Irvine
in California to Hunter College in New York, and from Florida State
University in Tallahassee to Georgetown University in Washington, DC. It
comprises student men's groups, peer educators, sexual assault prevention
offices, university chaplains and many others.

 

We look forward to welcoming many more schools to the Campus Strength
Program as it continues to grow. If you have any questions, feedback, or
other comments, please do not hesitate to share them with me at
.
 I look forward to talking with as many of you as
possible.

 

Best,

Joe

 

(apologies for cross-posting)

 

 

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Joseph Vess
Consulting and Training Director
Men Can Stop Rape
 
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www.mencanstoprape.org
Phone: (202) 265-6530, ext. 16
Fax: (202) 265-4362