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

[Lisa Landreman <>]

Ben,

We use the student success online module on our campus and overall are
very pleased with it. Here are the advantages:
-- it allows us to begin early at setting a tone for what to expect on campus
--it allows us to track who has viewed and who hasn't. Our size allows
us to follow up with students who have not viewed it and by mid
October 100% of our entering class had viewed it (we put a
registration hold on those who have not viewed)
--It has a pre-test and post-test built in so can demonstrate what
students had learned following the viewing
--it provides a common, shared experience that we can reference when
students return
--the company is really great to work with, in the second year they
took many of our suggestions to add gender neutral language and
allowed us to add information specific to our campus
--it shows peers in conversation with one another, although scripted,
thought it more effective than just scenes and a narrator
--focused on peer intervention in addition to correcting
misinformation and provided strong messages about consent

When students arrive to campus we still do an hour and a half
interactive discussion with students about sexual violence, but now it
is a second message, not a first, and so we are reinforcing messages
and then we follow up in September with e-mail messaging as well,
reminding them again of the information. So students hear the message
3 times. So we do not have it replace sexual assault training that we
do during orientation, we use it to enhance and strengthen our
efforts.


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Ben Atherton-Zeman
<>
 wrote:
> I just got a very nice looking brochure in the mail from "Student Success."
> I have met some of these folks at conferences - they bring very impressive
> display tables.  I've had great conversations with their marketing staff.
>
>
>
> The brochure asked me to look at at their website, www.studentsuccess.org
> <http://www.studentsuccess.org/> .  I saw that colleges can educate their
> campuses on sexual violence by purchasing this online prevention program.  I
> even like some of the content - there's a scene where a guy uses the phrase
> "Dude, I totally banged her" and is confronted by his guy friends, who use
> humor to make pithy educational points.
>
>
>
> What do folks think about online education regarding sexual violence and
> dating violence?  I admit I'm biased, since I felt like I was looking at the
> "automated robot" that will someday replace me in the factory!  But I can
> also see some advantages of using online education.  Have some campuses used
> online education with success, and would you mind sharing those successes?
> Are online education providers here on this list and do you want to weigh
> in?
>
>
>
> Until the violence stops, Ben.
>
>
>
> Ben Atherton-Zeman, Maynard, MA USA
> Actor, Comedian, Feminist and Husband
> Presenting a One-Man Play: "Voices of Men," Educational Theatre for
> Sexual/Domestic Violence Prevention - video excerpts at
> http://www.voicesofmen.org
>
> Booking information: 978-897-3619
>
>
>
> Quote of the Month, March 2010: "Whenever we blame a victim, we are siding
> with the perpetrator."  - Diane Docis, 
> 
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-- 
Lisa Landreman, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Students
Macalester College
651-696-6220