The Student Affairs core team addressing sexual assault response and prevention has made significant progress in the implementation of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Community Equity (SPACE) toolkit, an innovative approach to violence prevention. The SPACE toolkit guides campus stakeholders through four stages of examining the ways the university environment contributes to or mitigates the …
by Henri Miller, Chief Business Officer, Office of Student Affairs; and Warren Scherer, Director, Gender and Sexuality Campus Center When Student Affairs was established at UW–Madison in 2018, it came together as several distinct areas, each with its own culture and practices. Our organization has grown tremendously since then, underscoring a need for shared culture …
by Mark Kueppers, Senior Director of Campus Involvement, Center for Leadership & Involvement Last month, more than 13,000 students streamed through the doors of the Kohl Center seeking connection and community with the 450 registered student organizations (RSOs) that participated in the two-day Student Organization Fair. This Wisconsin Welcome event was a reminder of the …
by Molly Caradonna, Psy.D., Director of Survivor Services, University Health Services April Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) has ended, yet it is important to keep in focus the continued impact of sexual violence on our campus and to keep moving forward on the work still before us. The 2019 AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual …
by Amanda Jovaag, Director of Prevention and Campus Health Initiatives, University Health Services UW–Madison students participate in high-risk drinking at rates that rival any school in the nation. Our most recent data indicate that 45 percent of students binge drink, a behavior that is concentrated among white-cisgender students on our campus. UHS’s Color of Drinking …