Funding Opportunity: Zeta Tau Alpha Award for Innovation in Campus Hazing Prevention & Education

Zeta Tau Alpha (ZTA) has committed to financial sponsorship for the next five years for the Zeta Tau Alpha Award for Innovation in Campus Hazing Prevention & Education to help address hazing prevention and intervention at institutions of higher education.

With this award, ZTA and HazingPrevention.Org seek to:

• Motivate higher education stakeholders to counter hazing on their campuses
• Recognize and reward the good work in hazing prevention
• Encourage campuses to initiate comprehensive efforts to combat hazing
• Promote the most effective practices based on the criteria set forth
• Provide campus-based personnel with leverage to create campus buy-in for such efforts

The award will recognize one campus whose efforts are:

• Created through collaboration across the institution
• Holistic in nature, focused on a wide range of audiences both within and external to the campus
• Supported by senior-level administration with a plan for institutionalization and ongoing commitment
• Grounded in research and proven prevention practices and assessed for future evolution and improvement
• Included in short- and long-term planning initiatives for wellness and community safety
• Strategic about how the prize money will be used to further these efforts

One $10,000 prize will be awarded to the institution of higher education that most excels in the designated criteria for hazing prevention and intervention programming. Campuses must submit their completed application package no later than November 15, 2009.

Visit the HazingPrevention.Org Web site for more information and to download a PDF of the application guidelines.