Campus Forums:

• Improve understanding of amnesty policy and share widely
• Address known high-risk alcohol environments (Athletics/sporting events and fraternity and sorority life)

GAPS Work Group: 

• Create policies and best practices around use of alcohol at events

UHS SA/DV Work Group: 

• Advocate for changes to campus policies to reduce high-risk drinking
• Increase capacity of Prevention staff to work with student leaders in fraternity and sorority life to create safer environments with less high-risk alcohol use
• Engage with parents to reduce high-risk drinking
• Consider recommendations that resulted from the Color of Drinking study such as the need for culturally-specific providers in Survivor Services

SA/DV Coordinating Council:

• Encourage visibility and funding of sober and recovery programs
• Increase alcohol enforcement of known problem sites
• Increase work with city of Madison to address alcohol-saturated environment
• Increase community-building in Housing not centered around alcohol
• Prohibit alcohol sales at Athletics venues or Unions
• Engage alumni in prevention

Campus Forums: 

• Increase transparency around university process and response to reports
  • Administer higher sanctions.
  • Utilize central database to track reports and trends

GAPS Work Group: 

• Ensure that graduate and professional students have contact, feedback, and support from faculty other than their primary adviser.
• Reinforce existing efforts to require programs to provide annual feedback on progress toward the degree from faculty in addition to the primary adviser.

UHS SA/DV Work Group: 

• Reduce barriers for survivors to seek support by promoting environmental messaging that addresses common reasons for not seeking services
  • Include messaging that addresses barriers such as: belief that the assault wasn’t serious enough, there weren’t any physical injuries, the sexual activity started consensually, and the survivor was consuming alcohol
  • Consider incorporating messaging into a media campaign, prevention programs, and clinical interactions
• Increase UHS partnerships with student groups, with potential partners being: Students for Reproductive Justice, Sex Out Loud, Campus Women’s Center, PAVE, Relationship FLAGS, etc.
• Collect more data about the needs of survivors

SA/DV Coordinating Council:

• Administrators should discuss sexual violence regularly, not only when there are high-profile cases or climate surveys
• Increase advocate staffing at UHS Survivor Services
• Increase staff and faculty ability to respond to disclosures and foster trauma-informed environments

Campus Forums: 

• Improve access to and experience of student mental health services
  • Remove barriers to accessing crisis services
  • Provide trauma-informed intake process
  • Remove cap on services
  • Increase understanding of trauma among practitioners

GAPS Work Group:

• Gather a baseline understanding of what policies and resources exist among program/departments
  • Create a survey to send to key staff/faculty in each department/program.
• Increase visibility and accessibility of resources and policies available for graduate and professional students
  • Identifying a point person amongst programs/departments/schools to distribute resources in a systemic way.
  • Create a toolbox for programs that would include templates, flyers, and suggestions of where to spread information.
  • Develop syllabus/handbook best practices
  • Optimize search engines
  • Provide students relevant information about rights and resources during orientation to program and/or before conferences and fieldwork

SA/DV Coordinating Council:

• Address the disproportionate impact on marginalized students
  • Connect with resource offices such as cultural centers and DDEEA programs
  • Provide nighttime transportation for students with disabilities
  • Offer additional identity-focused prevention efforts
  • Gather more data about the experience of violence among marginalized students
  • Increase UHS Survivor Services staff and provide counseling and advocacy at the Red Gym
  • Increase staffing for hate and bias response

GAPS Work Group: 

• Establish best practices for campus regarding travel and fieldwork; include references to national professional standards.
• Ensure that students have contact, feedback, and support from faculty other than their primary adviser
• Create a Sexual Misconduct Whistleblower Policy analogous to our existing Research Misconduct Whistleblower Policy, defining the responsibilities of various units to provide financial support and advising support to students

SA/DV Coordinating Council:

• Need better survey tools to measure engagement in bystander intervention across stages of change/different domains (knowledge, efficacy, behavior, etc.)
• Have staff and faculty who are experts in violence prevention and survivor support consult on policy/systems changes

Campus forums: 

• Implement trauma-informed training for staff and faculty
  • Accommodation needs
  • Universal policy about syllabi statements

GAPS Work Group: 

• Host in-person trainings within departments (including efforts focused on creating safe and inclusive work and research environments, bystander intervention)
• Provide clarification around role of mandatory reporters
• Enhance TA training to provide students with resources to address instances of sexual misconduct in the classroom or in one-on-one student interactions

Campus Forums: 

• Expand in-person programming
  • Increase bystander intervention training, especially for student organizations, fraternity and sorority life, Athletics, students with privileged identities, beyond first-year students
• Ensure current programming is trauma-informed, addresses hookup culture, alcohol, and identity factors related to intervening
• Focus on men’s engagement—decrease stigma for male survivors, target populations with power and privilege

GAPS Work Group: 

• Increase student awareness that support resources are available regardless of location/affiliation of respondent’s misconduct.
• Provide students relevant information about rights and resources during orientation to program and/or before conferences and fieldwork
• Create/host bank of sexual misconduct related policies for professional societies and organizations

SA/DV Coordinating Council:

• More fraternity and sorority life engagement with bystander intervention and with upper student leadership
• Increase staffing at UHS Survivor Services
• Encourage ‘Me Too’ organizing
• Offer more survivor support peer groups
• Increase availability of UHS counseling