Anti-violence Coalition

2023-24 Anti-Violence Coalition Members

The University of Iowa Anti-Violence Coalition (AVC) is a multidisciplinary team focused on ensuring a coordinated community response to prevention and intervention of sexual misconduct, dating/domestic violence, and stalking. The Campus Education Subcommittee (CES) was created in the spring of 2011 as a subcommittee of the Anti-Violence Coalition.

Mission:
The CES engages in multidisciplinary collaboration to advance comprehensive, evidence-informed prevention education strategies to end interpersonal violence in the campus community.

For more information, please contact committee chair Tanya Villhauer.

Goals

These goals will guide the CES for the next two years. A percentage of CES time will be focused on the identified goals and a percentage (not yet determined) will be directed to other projects as needed to align with UI Anti-violence Coalition priorities.

Goal #1: Define a model for comprehensive prevention education strategy

Convene working group to review/edit draft
- review literature and compliance obligations
CES input
AVC input
Identify and involve other stakeholders (i.e. faculty and students) for input/buy in
Working group to revise
Submit to CES and AVC for approval

Goal #2: Make recommendations for prevention education based on-campus data

Gather results from campus readiness assessment, climate survey, education and training database, incident trends (demographics, location, subpopulations), National College Health Assessment data.
Compare and identify gaps among campus-specific data, comprehensive model, and current activities
Write a white paper to share findings and make recommendations

Goal #3: Implement consistent assessment of outcomes resulting from education activities

Determine program-specific outcomes for standardized programs/activities
Define assessment methods
Pilot assessment methods
Interpret and report results among education providers to promote continuous improvement

Goal #4: Develop a website to connect the campus community to educational resources

Select a preferred web location
Identify the technical/design/financial resources for creating the site
Devise plan/owner(s) for site maintenance
Establish a menu of current programs and content
Agree on what information about programs and content should be shared and for what purpose
Create an online form for requesting a workshop or campaign materials
Identify existing resources indicating best practices and other websites currently being implemented at other institutions
Develop additional resources indicating best practices
Post resources indicating best practices

Members during 2023-24 include:

Alicia Aguiar, Interpersonal Violence Prevention Assessment
Isabella Brauhn, Rape Victim Advocacy Program (RVAP)
Becca Don, Student Wellness
Steven Edwards, Diversity Resources (DR)
Heather Erwin, Assessment, Improvement, and Research (AIR)
Marissa Good, Women's Resource and Action Center (WRAC)
Ambur Hageman, Women's Resource and Action Center (WRAC)
Suzanne Hilleman, Athletics HR
Lorenda Holston, Athletics Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Leandra Jenkins, Residence Education
Krista Kronstein, Office of Institutional Equity (OIE)
Linda Kroon, Women's Resource and Action Center (WRAC)
Elizabeth Lara, Graduate College, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (Grad DEI)
Madalyn Lovejoy, Student Advisory Committee on Sexual Misconduct (SACSM)
Jenny McGinn, Realizing Educational and Career Hopes (UI-REACH)
Jennifer Modestou, Office of Institutional Equity (OIE)
Kara Park, Student Athlete Academic Services
Alton Poole, Department of Public Safety (DPS)
McKenna Raimer, Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG)
Teri Schnelle, Projects and Partnerships
Tanya Villhauer, Student Wellness

Student Advisory Committee on Sexual Misconduct (SACSM) Student Advisory Committee on Sexual Misconduct

The Student Advisory Committee on Sexual Misconduct (SACSM) serves as a student voice to the UI Anti-violence Coalition. SACSM solicits input from a broad range of students to inform prevention, intervention and policy work; helping to monitor and improve progress on university plans and commitments in the domain of sexual misconduct.

Joining the Committee

The Student Advisory Committee on Sexual Misconduct (SACSM) invites the entire student body to join in changing campus culture around sexual misconduct. Everyone can support the SACSM’s mission to respect others, to value asking for consent, to promote awareness of what constitutes consent (yes means yes, and omission is not permission), and to recognize that victims of sexual misconduct are never to blame.

Students who are interested in formally joining SACSM should apply as seats on the committee become available through the staggered member selection. Each member’s term is expected to last two years, and at the expiration of each member’s term, SACSM will consider applications for a new member.

Meetings

We meet twice a month as a committee to learn more about campus resources and discuss our agenda for improving campus culture around sexual misconduct. Each meeting includes training or education from a campus or community constituent about some specific aspect of sexual misconduct. Each meeting agenda builds off of our last meeting and includes topics proposed in advance and updates by subcommittees progressing on smaller projects. This agenda prompts open discussion among the committee members, each of whom brings unique insight through his or her different connections at the University of Iowa and who volunteers to complete assignments to advance the committee’s projects.

For more information, please contact the committee chair, Madalyn Lovejoy.

2023-2024 SACSM Members

Committee Chair: Madalyn Lovejoy

Returning Members:

Grace Ries
Celine Fender

New Members:

Aimen Hameed
Sarah Hovey
Hope Minor
Ijeoma Ogbonna
Delaney Orewiler
Mimi Roberts
Madison Ross
Sydney Ryan

Liaison: Monique DiCarlo - Director, Title IX and gender equity

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The University of Iowa Anti-Violence Coalition (AVC) is a multidisciplinary team focused on ensuring a coordinated community response to prevention and intervention of sexual misconduct, dating/domestic violence, and stalking. The Research & Evaluation Subcommittee was created in the spring of 2019 as a subcommittee of the Anti-Violence Coalition.

Mission: To engage in multidisciplinary collaboration to advance comprehensive, rigorous, assessment, evaluation, and research of the University of Iowa’s efforts to end interpersonal violence in the campus community.

Charge:

To coordinate institutional data collection around interpersonal violence and/or workplace sexual harassment
To provide ongoing advice to the Title IX Coordinator and Anti-Violence Coalition on the access and use of interpersonal violence data where the University of Iowa is the authoritative data source.
To partner with other researchers and evaluation professionals (students, faculty, and staff) on campus around interpersonal violence research and evaluation for coordination and mutual partnership, but not for oversight.

Goals: These goals will guide the subcommittee for the next two years.

Goal #1: Conduct a campus-wide data mapping of all available data sources pertaining to interpersonal violence outcomes.

Examine existing administrative data, Clery reporting, prevention program outcome data, NCHA, diversity surveys, etc.) that could be used to assess interpersonal violence prevalence, prevention strategies, intervention programs, investigation and adjudication processes, and policies.
Prepare summary report that includes gaps in the available data needed to inform our prevention and intervention programs and policies.

Goal #2: Create a database of faculty conducting research on interpersonal violence to encourage collaboration.

Identify faculty conducting interpersonal violence research.
Outline a system and process to keep this information up-to-date and available to AVC and subcommittee members.

Goal #3: Develop a multi-year data collection plan for ongoing assessment of the campus climate, sexual misconduct rates, and impact of prevention and intervention programs.

Use the results of the data mapping, along with findings from the 2017 Speak Out Iowa Survey, and Anti-Violence Plan strategies, to recommend a four year data-collection plan.
Work with the Anti-Violence Coalition to assure that the data collection plan supports the strategies of the UI Anti-Violence Plan.

Goal #4: Prioritize research and/or evaluation projects identified in the multi-year data collection plan and identify resources to implement these priorities.

Consult with the Anti-Violence Coalition to identify priorities.
Explore practicum or internship programs on campus to identify students who could assist with research and data projects.
Identify and collaborate with research faculty whose scholarship overlap with the subcommittee research priorities.
Secure a research budget to support ongoing projects.

Committee Chairs: Carolyn Hartley and Teri Schnelle

2019-2020 Members:

The Campus Climate Survey Subcommittee is a subcommittee of the Anti-Violence Coalition.

Information about the Speak Out Survey can be found on the Speak Out Iowa site.

Subcommittee co-chairs:

Carolyn Hartley, Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Teri Schnelle, Director of Projects and Partnerships, Office of the Vice President for Student Life

Subcommittee members:

Christina Shutters, Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Elizabeth Momany, Associate Research Scientist, Public Policy Center
Anne Abbott, Program Director of the Graduate College
Brittany Greenbaum, Staff Therapist at University Counseling Services
Shalisa Gladney, Afro-American Cultural Center Coordinator
Martha Pierce, Assistant Director of Women's Resource and Action Center
Olivia Westemeier, Undergraduate CLAS Student

The University of Iowa has a long history of supporting anti-violence work on campus and in the Iowa City area. Our successes have been driven by multidisciplinary collaboration and the continuous effort of a committed team.

Efforts go back to the establishment of the Rape Victim Advocacy Center at the Women’s Center in 1971, as well as the grant Aid and Alternatives to Victims of Spouse Abuse received in 1979 for a shelter that would eventually become part of the Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP). These programs, now independent agencies in the Iowa City community, continue to play a major role in our coordinated campus response.

The timeline below describes campus work to prevent sexual misconduct, dating violence, and stalking; provide support to survivors; and hold offenders accountable since the creation of the UI Anti-Violence Coalition. Much has been accomplished, but experience, a trauma-informed approach, and survivors continue to inform practice—and there is more work to be done, including the introduction of the UI’s new Anti-Violence Plan for sexual misconduct, dating violence, and stalking for Summer 2018 to Spring 2021.

Anti-Violence Coalition History Timeline

2006

Received first Campus Program Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
$199,668 to establish a Coordinated Campus Response Team (CCRT), implement mandatory education for incoming students, train judicial administrators, train law enforcement, and establish the Men's Anti-Violence Council
Created CCRT and UI Anti-violence Coalition

2007

Implemented first sexual misconduct and dating/domestic violence training for judicial administrators
Collaboration by Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP), Rape Victim Advocacy Program (RVAP), and Office of the Dean of Students
Received Iowa Regents Flagship Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women
To work with the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) and Iowa State University (ISU) to establish a student Forum Theatre Troupe, enhance men's programming, provide specialized training for advocates in higher education, and develop a Gender Violence Curriculum Institute at UNI
Provided online sexual misconduct prevention education for all incoming undergraduates

2008

Created first sexual misconduct policy through the Iowa Regents Flagship Grant

2009

Created Office of the Sexual Misconduct Response Coordinator (OSMRC)
Implemented new mandatory online sexual misconduct prevention education program for incoming undergraduate students
President Mason required all faculty and staff appointed at 50% or greater to complete sexual harassment prevention training

2010

Mandatory online sexual misconduct prevention education program required for incoming graduate/professional students
Received Iowa Regents Flagship Grant continuation funding
To engage in policy review and develop law enforcement online training
Campus Education Subcommittee (CES) formed to create education to ensure students understood affirmative consent standard

2011

Received second Campus Program Grant from OVW
$300,000 to expand bystander intervention education, create the university’s stalking policy, and implement training to strengthen law enforcement and campus judicial investigations
Strengthened victim advocacy resources
Engaged in a contract with DVIP to offer on-campus advocacy
Bystander education included in On Iowa!
Orientation included a bystander workshop on dating violence
Collaborated with academic and professional departments to infuse the topic of gender-based violence and discrimination into courses
CES shifted to align and coordinate prevention education efforts between providers

2012

Updated Johnson County Guidelines for Investigating Adult Sexual Assault
Included guidance and support for handling dual investigations (criminal and administrative)
Created and implemented campus judicial sexual assault investigator and adjudicator training

2013

Published Campus Education Report
Created stalking policy language
Five policies modified to address stalking; National Stalking Resource Center provided guidance
Housing required all RAs & Pro Staff to receive bystander training
Established monthly Clery case review with the Department of Public Safety, the Office of the Dean of Students, the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, the Office of the General Counsel, UIHC Security Office, and the Office of the Sexual Misconduct Response Coordinator

2014

Received third Campus Program Grant from OVW
$300,000 to create the university’s dating/domestic policy, continue training to strengthen law enforcement and campus judicial investigations, develop a sanctioning intervention for non-expulsion cases, and continue on-campus advocacy services with DVIP
Prevention education enhanced
Additional training required for orientation guides and Iowa Edge peer leaders; every new fraternity chapter member required to complete Every Member, Every Chapter training; and funding committed to 2.5 FTE prevention specialists
UI Police Department received first department-wide training on sexual assault and stalking
8-hour training for all officers; judicial/policy investigators, municipal departments, and county attorney also participated
RVAP implemented Raise the Bar bystander program for local bar staff
Established Sexual Assault Sanctioning Guidelines for student misconduct
RVAP created a campus advocate position
Created Title IX Team and established monthly meetings to review cases
Team included representation from the Office of the Sexual Misconduct Response Coordinator, the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, the Office of the Dean of Students, the Office of the General Counsel, the Department of Public Safety, the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program, and the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART)
Implemented monthly training opportunities for judicial administrators and AVC members
President Mason introduced Six Point Plan to Combat Sexual Assault and established Student Advisory Committee on Sexual Misconduct

2015

UIPD received first department-wide training on dating/domestic violence
8-hour training for all officers, including a lunch panel of Title IX investigators and community partners
Trained UI ITS security team member in phone and computer forensics to assist police and judicial investigations
Completed advanced digital forensics training from the SANS Institute
Created dating/domestic violence policy language
Five policies were modified to address dating/domestic violence; DVIP and RVAP participated in the policy writing process; Monsoon Asians and Pacific Islanders in Solidarity provided guidance
The commitment made to continue including bystander education in On Iowa! for all first-year students
Administered first Speak Out Iowa campus climate survey for all degree-seeking undergraduate, graduate, and professional students
Established Certified Peer Educator Program to expand bystander education and healthy relationships

2016

Released results of Speak Out Iowa survey and UI Anti-Violence Plan for Sexual Misconduct, Dating Violence and Stalking (Fall 2016 – Spring 2018)

2017

Administered second Speak Out Iowa campus climate survey for all degree-seeking undergraduate, graduate, and professional students

2018

Released results of second Speak Out Iowa survey and UI Anti-Violence Plan for Sexual Misconduct, Dating Violence, and Stalking (Summer 2018 – Spring 2021)

Charge: recommend a survey and modify to reflect UI policies and programs, design study methodology and administer survey, develop and conduct data analysis, work with AVC to disseminate results, and evaluate survey administration and develop a sustainability plan.

The Campus Climate Survey Subcommittee is a subcommittee of the Anti-Violence Coalition.

The subcommittee was charged by the Office of the Vice President for Student Life to:

Recommend a survey and modify to reflect UI policies and programs
Design study methodology and administer survey
Develop and conduct data analysis
Work with AVC to disseminate results
Evaluate survey administration and develop a sustainability plan

Survey details and results can be found on the Speak Out Iowa site.

Subcommittee members:

Carolyn Hartley, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Chair
Teresa Treat, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Anne Sadler, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, VA
Josh Abdo, Student, Member of President’s Student Advisory Committee on Sexual Misconduct
Carter Bell, Student, Member of President’s Student Advisory Committee on Sexual Misconduct

The Campus Climate Survey Subcommittee is a subcommittee of the Anti-Violence Coalition.

Information about the Speak Out Survey can be found on the Speak Out Iowa site.

Subcommittee co-chairs:

Carolyn Hartley, Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Teri Schnelle, Director of Projects and Partnerships, Office of the Vice President for Student Life

Subcommittee members:

Christina Shutters, Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Elizabeth Momany, Associate Research Scientist, Public Policy Center
Anne Abbott, Program Director of the Graduate College
Brittany Greenbaum, Staff Therapist at University Counseling Services
Shalisa Gladney, Afro-American Cultural Center Coordinator
Martha Pierce, Assistant Director of Women's Resource and Action Center
Olivia Westemeier, Undergraduate CLAS Student

Committee charge:
To strengthen response readiness to dating/domestic violence reports through review of UI policies, procedures, and response protocols and provide recommendations to the President.

Committee members:

Monique DiCarlo, O ffice of Institutional Equity(OIE) Director
Thomas Baker, Office of the Dean of Students
Josephine Bathke, University Employee and Labor Relations
Jennifer Carlson, Rape Victim Advocacy Program
Diane Finnerty, Office of the Provost
Kristie Fortmann-Doser, Domestic Violence Intervention Program
David Grady, Office of the Dean of Students
Karen Heimer, School of Sociology
Jennifer Modestou, O ffice of Institutional Equity(OIE)
Carroll Reasoner, Office of the General Counsel
Scott Stevens, Iowa City Police Department
David Visin, Department of Public Safety
Rachel Zimmerman, Johnson County Attorney's Office

Project background:
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”) is a federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs and activities. All public and private elementary and secondary schools, school districts, colleges, and universities receiving any federal financial assistance (hereinafter “schools”, “recipients”, or “recipient institutions”) must comply with Title IX. The Department of Education Office on Civil Rights recognizes dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking as forms of sex discrimination.

The reauthorization of the VAWA 2013 amendments to the Clery Act require institutions to have disciplinary measures in place for dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

Project history:
In October 2014, a review team was assembled to insure campus readiness to reports of dating and domestic violence. The team reviewed dating and domestic violence training literature, state and federal dating and domestic violence statutes, and policy language from other universities and private sector institutions. A consultant from Monsoon United Asian Women of Iowa met with the project team. The team chose to ensure dating and domestic violence were prohibited behavior within existing policies rather than recommend a new policy. Shared Governance leadership advised and was consulted on the project. Given the mandatory nature of the required changes and the determination that the changes did not alter the intent of the policy in significant ways, it was determined that votes of the full governance bodies would not be needed.

Impacted policies:

Sexual Misconduct Policy Involving Students (OM IV-2)
Code of Student Life
Sexual Harassment Policy (OM II-4)
Policy on Violence (OM II-10)
Anti-harassment Policy (OM II-14)

Project status:
Complete

Policy recommendations:
The recommendations ensure that both dating violence and domestic violence are prohibited. All policies under review include or reference the draft language below, which is in compliance with the federal legislation.

Domestic/dating violence is coercive, abusive, and/or threatening behavior toward a current or former intimate or romantic partner. These behaviors may include physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, or injure the victim/survivor.

Additionally, the following non-substantive changes have been made within each policy:

Charge:
Review Callisto and recommend whether or not this resource should be implemented at the UI, including the committee's rationale for recommendation. The recommendation will be shared with AVC members and considered as part of the Anti-Violence Plan.

Committee members:
Kimberly DePalma, Student Advisory Committee on Sexual Misconduct
Fatima Jayoma, Monsoon United Asian Women of Iowa
Jeremy Kinser, University Counseling Service
Nathan Levin, Office of the General Counsel
Emily Milke, Rape Victim Advocacy Program
Lilian Sanchez, University of Iowa Student Government
Pamela Terrill, Johnson County SART Coordinator
Rachel Zuckerman, Chair, Office of the President

Status:
The review was completed in August 2017. The committee recommended that we not adopt Callisto. The committee made recommendations on alternative ways the university could message students and on ways to improve the reporting functions on the DDEI website. The website has been updated to reflect those recommendations; the suggestions related to messaging are under discussion. The committee's full report can be found here.

Committee charge: To review the University guidelines to be used to determine 1) what sanctions should be handed down for students who are found responsible for the full range of sexual misconduct, not just for sexual assault; 2) what education/intervention programs should be mandated (sanctioned) for students who are found responsible for these different types of sexual misconduct; and 3) the recommendations of Committee B will only apply to students who are not expelled (as per the guidelines set forth by Committee A)

Committee members:

Thomas Baker, Office of the Dean of Students
Monique DiCarlo, Director, Title IX and gender equity
Jeremy Kinser, University Counseling Services
Erika Lawrence, Department of Psychology, Committee Chair
Nathan Levin, Office of the General Counsel
Kira Pasquesi, President's Student Advisory Committee on Sexual Assault
Elizabeth Ripperger, Student Health and Wellness
Karen Siler, Rape Victim Advocacy Program
Elizabeth Tovar, Athletics
Rachel Zimmerman, Johnson County Attorneys Office

Division of Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Anti-violence Coalition

Anti-Violence Plans:

2023-2024 SACSM Members

Anti-Violence Coalition History Timeline

Anti-violence Coalition

Anti-Violence Plans:

2023-24 Members

Subcommittee: Campus Education

Subcommittee Student Advisory Committee on Sexual Misconduct (SACSM)

2023-2024 SACSM Members

Men and Masculinities Coalition

Subcommittee Research and Evaluation

2021 Speak Out Campus Climate Survey

History of University of Iowa Anti-Violence Work

Anti-Violence Coalition History Timeline

Past subcommittee - 2015 Campus Climate Survey

Past subcommittee - 2017 Speak Out Campus Climate Survey

Dating/Domestic Violence Policy Review Committee

Callis to Review Subcommittee

​Sanctioning Review Committee B