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

["Catherine A. Carroll" <>]

Dear Colleagues, I am sharing this email from the ABA Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence, per their request. They are working with the Department of Justice on a grant looking at improving campus student conduct processes and basically want you to complete a brief survey. 

 

Link: https://americanbar.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9YaaOnDQlmihWex

Please their full email below. 

Dear Campus Stakeholder:

 

The American Bar Association Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence (ABA-CDSV), with funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, has launched the Project on Improving Campus Student Conduct Processes for Domestic, Dating, Sexual and Stalking (DSVST) Violence. The Project has the end goal of developing Standards of Practice for colleges and universities seeking to improve their campus conduct processes on DSVST.

 

Your experience at your current college or university and any previous institutions at which you have worked can provide us with invaluable information and guidance for this project, helping us to ensure that we can make the Standards we develop as useful as possible. We would be grateful if you would share your successes and challenges so that this project is grounded in the realities of the diverse range of campuses across this country. We are asking that you complete the assessment linked below so that we can develop a product that is consistent with and meets the needs of your work.

 

The ABA-CDSV is a nationally-recognized leader on increasing access to justice for domestic and sexual violence victims through training and support for the legal profession.  For this Project, the ABA-CDSV has recruited an expert on campus DSVST policies and procedures, Nancy Chi Cantalupo, to work with us.  Ms. Cantalupo has worked to combat campus DSVST for over 20 years as a campus administrator and legal scholar, including six years as an academic assistant dean, seven years as director of a campus women’s resource center, and nine years as a campus DSVST researcher and scholar.  Before moving to her current faculty position, Ms. Cantalupo was Associate Vice President for Equity, Inclusion & Violence Prevention at NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

 

The assessment should take an average of 10 minutes to complete. The assessment does not ask for any identifying information and the full purpose of the assessment is to help the ABA-CDSV to develop Standards of Practice. All responses will be maintained in the aggregate and will not be reported to the U.S. Department of Justice or any third party.

 

Please complete the assessment by May 23, 2017.  If you feel comfortable doing so, and would be willing to speak to us, please contact our project lead, Anya Lynn-Alesker of the ABA-CDSV, regarding some more detailed questions about your work.  Ms. Lynn-Alesker can be reached at .  If you have any questions or concerns, please also feel free to contact Ms. Lynn-Alesker.

 

Thank you for your consideration!

 

Link: https://americanbar.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9YaaOnDQlmihWex

 

The Project on Improving Campus Student Conduct Processes for Domestic, Dating, Sexual and Stalking (DSVST) Violence is supported by Grant No. 2015-TA-AX-K060 awarded to the American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Justice.

 

 

Anya Lynn-Alesker

Managing Attorney | Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence

Deputy Diversity Officer | Pronouns: They, Them, Their, She, Her, Hers
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