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

[Nancy Cantalupo <>]

Dear SAPC and WRAC-L Colleagues,

I write with an update to The Big Comment Catalog project.  In the first month of the project, we did not meet our initial goal for completion of the catalog (July 8, 2019), but we have had enough volunteers sign up that we are hopeful that this research can be completed by the end of the summer (ideal deadline: August 31). At this point, about 4000-5000 comments have been sent for cataloging or have been cataloged already by approximately 80 volunteer catalogers, so our volunteers have been able to catalog an average of about 50 comments a piece. We have posted this update on The Big Comment Catalog website as well.

Please continue to: (1) spread the word, (2) assign/facilitate/allow interested students to catalog comments, especially student interns, RAs, etc., and (3) consider signing up to catalog comments yourselves. An easily forwarded email is below for you to use for these purposes, especially (1), but it also contains the info you need to help out with (2) and (3).

Thank you, and please let me (or the full research team at ) know if you have any questions.

Best,

Nancy

Nancy Chi Cantalupo 甘念齊

See my latest article, And Even More of Us Are Brave: Intersectionality & Sexual Harassment of Women Students of Color, at my SSRN author site: http://ssrn.com/author=884485

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Dear Colleagues,

I want to let you know of a new "crowd-research" project in which I hope you will personally participate, as well as encourage others in your network to join. This project seeks to catalog the 124,000+ comments (the latest number according to the regulations.gov website) that were filed by members of the public in response to the Title IX Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).  For a whole host of reasons that are too lengthy to go into here (but, if you'd like more info, many are addressed in this article: Dog Whistles & Beachheads: The Trump Administration, Sexual Violence & Student Discipline in Education), understanding what the public said in response to the NPRM is critical.  However, the sheer number of comments makes it difficult for any single individual or organization to read or track all of the comments.  Therefore, this project is designed to combine the work of many volunteers to create a database that will catalog specific categories of information about the comments so that hopefully those who wish to read some subset of comments will have a better chance to identify which comments they should read.

I hope you will get involved by:  (1) signing up to catalog comments yourself at The Big Comment Catalog , (2) spreading the word to your networks to encourage others to volunteer, and (3) encouraging your students to catalog comments, including by allowing interested Research Assistants, Interns, etc. to catalog comments during their "downtime" or creating a course project or service opportunity in which students catalog comments. (For the faculty getting this email, you can also create a course project or service opportunity in which students catalog comments. If you are not sure about whether timing of a class project or a service project will work, please contact the research team at the email below and one of us will coordinate with you.) 

 

We have designed the cataloging process to be as simple and quick as possible in order to allow as wide a group of volunteers to participate in as little time as possible.  Our ideal deadline for completion of the catalog is August 31, 2019 (because public information indicates that the Department of Education is planning to finalize the regulations in September sometime), but we will post updates to the deadline and about our progress with the research on the The Big Comment Catalog website (https://sites.google.com/view/title-ix-comment-count/home?authuser=0).  You can also ask any questions of the research team at . 

Best,

Nancy

Nancy Chi Cantalupo 甘念齊

See my latest article, And Even More of Us Are Brave: Intersectionality & Sexual Harassment of Women Students of Color, at my SSRN author site: http://ssrn.com/author=884485