New Award to Recognize Campus Programming That Addresses Hazing in 2011
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September 10, 2010
With this award, Zeta Tau Alpha and HazingPrevention.Org seek to:
- Motivate higher education stakeholders to counter hazing on their campuses
- Recognize and reward the good work of campuses that are using true prevention practices effectively
- Encourage campuses to initiate comprehensive efforts to combat hazing
- Promote the most effective practices
- 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 collegiate institution that most excels in the designated criteria for hazing prevention and intervention programming.
More information can be viewed at the HazingPrevention.Org Web site.