The Village Voice ran a story on CUNY’s new sexual assault policy on Tuesday, and while it highlights the fantastic student-led work and the thrill of success, it also brings up some concerns with what didn’t make it into the final draft, including the option of anonymous reporting for rape victims and lack of detail [...]

Just wanted to give a quick congratulations to the CUNY students who have been working hard since 2008 to institute a CUNY-wide sexual assault policy. The Board of Trustees approved the policy on Monday. Among other things, the policy mandates that each CUNY college develop prevention and education programming and train relevant staff in the [...]

Porchlight Counseling Services Youth Leadership Council’s blog has a post today about a group of students at Northwestern University who have started the steps towards creating an improved sexual assault policy. Student Sarah Crocker writes about their May 20th inaugural meeting of the Northwestern’s Campus Coalition on Sexual Violence and I was excited to see [...]

Last weekend I travel to Hamilton, NY to visit Colgate and do my first SAFER Teach-in! Three board members (Jenny, Renee, and I) were instantly greeted with the warmest welcomes and immense hospitality. I am so fortunate to have such a great experience on my first trip as a trainer. The student activists are all [...]

Looking to start or revamp a sexual assault program at your school? Check out this interview with Licensed Clinical Social Worker Rebecca Stacy, the Program Director of Bard college’s BRAVE program (Bard Response to Rape and Associated Violence Education).

BRAVE is available for eudcational programs or for general information concerning rape and other sexual violence. Volunteer student counselors are available during the academic year, 24 hours a day. For more information, please visit http://inside.bard.edu/community/services/.

Bard is a residential college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Its program may not be exactly right for your school, but this interview can help get you started and give you some great ideas. Feel free to contact us at SAFER if you need more information, or contact Ms. Stacy at stacy@bard.edu or (845) 758-7557.

The Supreme Court has taken the US public school system one tiny step back from the brink of total insanity by deciding that a school principal was wrong to order a 13 year old strip searched (down to her underwear and then made to move around and shake out her bra and panties) on an [...]

As SAFER has been shuffling through organizational changes and getting geared up for the year ahead, I’ve been completely remiss in posting a major campus update. As of yesterday, Sarah Lawrence College officially launched their new Sexual Assault and Harassment Policy! For the past year and a half, a faculty/staff/and student task force has been [...]

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), and many colleges and organizations are honoring it in creative and thought-provoking ways. Here are just a few: The very thought of walking in high heels makes me feel nauseous, so I salute the 161 men who decided to Walk a Mile in Her Shoes. It’s not particularly [...]

Following Ashley’s post yesterday, I heard this week from one of SAFER’s founders about a long protest walk she’s helping organize against Prop. 8. A couple from L.A. is walking all the way to the California Supreme Court in San Francisco to gather stories and support for the movement to revoke Prop. 8. They have [...]

Erin Burrows is currently a fifth-year graduate student in Women’s History at Sarah Lawrence College. She is working as the Policy Analysis Intern at SAFER. She hopes to see you on November 7th at Safer’s Benefit Show at the Galapagos Art Space, in DUMBO, Brooklyn. How did you get involved in challenging how your school [...]