Campus Action against Sexual Assault

A practical guide to prevention of and response to sexual assault on college campuses, this invaluable resource will help ensure Title IX compliance-and can also help reduce the incidence of these all-too-prevalent events. The frequency of sexual assault on college campuses is startlingly high. Notwithstanding this fact, most campus officials are not trained in the psychology of the victimization process, while most students are not aware of their reporting options. A practical guide to sexual assault at colleges and universities, this book integrates theories and empirical research with information about legislation and techniques to help college administrators deal with-and prevent-these disturbing offenses. The work brings together a team of experts who discuss various types of assault, including rape, stalking, intimate partner violence, and sexual harassment, and detail the legal, educational, and federal responses to such events on college campuses. They address federal and state laws, including new bills being proposed in Congress, and present research on the physical and psychological dimensions of sexual assault. Perhaps most important, the book shows how human resource techniques and principles can be used to establish preventative measures and to respond appropriately when sexual assault does occur. Students' accounts of prevention training and education enhance the scholarly and legal contributions to this important-and timely-volume.

Michele A. Paludi, PhD, is the author/editor of 52 college textbooks and more than 200 scholarly articles and conference presentations on sexual harassment, campus violence, psychology of women, gender, and discrimination.

Series Foreword
Michele A. Paludi
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Michele A. Paludi
PART I: LEGAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Understand the Rights of Those Impacted by Discrimination under Title IX
Brett A. Sokolow
2. From Litigation to Mediation: Sexual Harassment Dispute Resolution in the 21st Century
Phoebe Morgan
3. Campus Sexual Assault: Conceptualizing Vulnerable Groups in an Unfolding Legal Context
Lynn Jones, Brooke de Heer, and Sarah Prior
PART II: FACULTY VOICES
4. Lest We Forget, the Personal Continues to Be Political: Yik Yak and Other Unsafe Spaces, Necessary Dialogue in a Time of Silence
Jennifer L. Martin and Martina L. Sharp-Grier
5. Sexual Assault in Principle and in Practice: One Philosopher's View
Jennifer McErlean
6. What Campuses Must Do
MaryLou D'Allegro
7. Teaching an Online Course on Sexual Harassment: A Course for Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Susan Fineran
8. Protection against Sexual Harassment at the University of Zurich: A Glance at the Swiss Legal Framework and the University's Provisions
Brigitte Tag and Pete Hirsch
PART III: WHAT CAMPUSES MUST DO TO PREVENT AND RESPOND TO SEXUAL ASSAULT: LISTENING TO STUDENTS' RECOMMENDATIONS
9. How to Reduce Sexual Assaults and Sexual Abuse
Jacqueline Bove
10. Education Is Key: Why a Sexual Assault Awareness Week Is Necessary
Kaitlin Curl
11. Increasing Awareness as Prevention: The Importance of a Sexual Assault Awareness Week
Amrita Mangar
12. Sexual Violence against Transgender College Students
Abigail Hutton
PART IV: RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE RESEARCH LABORATORY
13. When Does Sexual Coercion Become Rape? Common Misperceptions among Students and Implications for Prevention
Avigail Moor
14. Ramifications of Title IX on Campus Sexual Assault Prevention and Treatment Protocol: Will Recent Changes Work to Protect College Students?
Felicia L. Mirghassemi, Katherine Anne Scott, Paula K. Lundberg-Love, Holly Phelps, and Amy Lyons Burke
15. Trauma, Victimization, and Help Seeking among Asian American and Pacific Islander Women
Whitney Fujii-Doe and Kevin L. Nadal
16. Verbal Sexual Coercion in Young Adults' Heterosexual Dating Relationships
Vanessa Tirone, Jennifer Katz, and Melanie Schukrafft
17. Protocol for the Standardization of Sexual Harassment Investigations: A Mediational Approach
William T. O'Donohue, Adrian H. Bowers, and Gwendolyn C. Carlson
18. An Improved Model of Sexual Assault Prevention for College Campuses
William T. O'Donohue, Andrew Lloyd, and Rory Newlands
Appendices
1. Advocacy Resources on Campus Sexual Assault
Michele A. Paludi
2. Resources for Prevention
Michele A. Paludi and Elisabetta Gianni
3. University of Zurich Sexual Harassment Policy
Brigitte Tag and Pete Hirsch
Index
About the Editor and Contributors