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

["Joseph Vess" <>]

Dear colleagues,

 

Every year there are more and more men and men’s groups and programs at institutions of higher learning across the country doing great work dedicated to addressing and preventing violence against women, supporting survivors, and encouraging healthy masculinity. However, many of the groups do not know about each other, even if they are in the same city, which hinders cooperation and learning. It also prevents men from building alliances, sharing their successes and lessons learned, and connecting on deeper levels with other men doing this work.

 

Men Can Stop Rape is seeking to help remedy this situation by conducting a nationwide survey of men’s groups and men’s programming on college and university campuses, which we plan to share the results of as a directory to all of the groups who participate in the survey. I believe this will be a great service to everyone conducting or wishing to conduct men’s programming on campus by informing us all of colleagues we might reach out to for advice and support and by helping the men we work with realize that their contributions are not isolated but are part of a much larger national and international movement of men who support gender equity and work to prevent violence against women. I believe it will also help build bridges between women and men doing this work on different campuses, with different communities, and across different academic disciplines; and I believe it will help us better celebrate the great work that is being done and appreciate the multitude of ways that men are engaged. To quote Audre Lorde, an amazing feminist and writer whose work many of us value: “In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.”

 

 

You will find a link to the survey below. It is being compiled by Men Can Stop Rape, a national non-profit organization dedicated to helping communities engage men and boys in the primary prevention of violence against women, in preparation for the upcoming 2011 National Conference of Campus Men’s Anti-Violence and Gender Equity Groups to help mobilize college and university men to participate in the conference. None of the data collected will be used for any commercial purpose.

 

We would greatly appreciate you or the appropriate person from your school or organization taking the time to complete this brief survey. Please be as thorough as possible; it should take no more than 4-5 minutes. If multiple people from the same school complete the survey, we will aggregate the data and include as much of it as possible.

 

Men Can Stop Rape will compile the results to share with all participants and others in the field. If you have any questions or comments about this survey please contact: Joe Vess at or Joe Samalin at

 

You will find the survey at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/campusmensprogramssurvey

 

Or if you would prefer, you can copy and paste the questions from below into a new email and send it to .

 

1 - Contact Information

 

-Name:                                                                                                                

-Title/Position:

-College/University:

-Department/Office/Major:

-Email address:

-Phone number:                                             

 

2 – Men’s Group/Organization/Program Information

 

-Name of men’s group/program:

 

-Is your group affiliated with any other group, office, or department on campus?   ____yes   ____no

 

*If yes, name of group/organization________________________________________________

 

* Please include if your group is affiliated with any national organization, i.e. Men Can Stop Rape, MVP

 or 1 in 4 )______________________________________

 

-Briefly describe work being done (Please include URL if available):

 

 

-Type of programming: (check all that apply)

 

____activism  ____discussion  ____peer education    ____training   ____counseling   ____other:

 

____________________________________________________________________________________

 

_____________________________________________________________________________________

 

-Membership:                     ____men only                                                __ __co-ed/mixed gender

 

 

Thank you, and thank you for the great work you do on campus!

 

In strength,

Joe

 

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Joseph Vess
Director of Training and Technical Assistance
202.265.6530 ext. 36 | Direct: 202-534-1836|

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