Back to Basics: Chapter & Student Organization Accountability Models
(1.5 - 2.0 hour session)

This session will cover the basics of best practices in setting up standards board’s operations within student organizations and chapters; including getting members to use the board, develop sanctions, expanding the role of the board to be about education and adjudication.

Risk and Harm Reduction Accountability Board Models
(2.0 - 2.5 hour session)

Session for advanced dialogue with organizations about establishing prevention focused accountability models. Interactive session will focus on three types of prevention:

  1. Primary Prevention is defined as focusing efforts on the root causes of misconduct in order to stop misconduct before it occurs. Primary efforts address the attitudes, behaviors, and environmental conditions that support, condone and lead to misconduct.

  2. Secondary Prevention is defined as focusing efforts on specific groups known to be at-risk for perpetrating acts of misconduct or those at risk of being victimized by acts of misconduct.

  3. Tertiary Prevention is defined as focusing efforts on decreasing the impact of misconduct on individuals and the campus community while increasing the accountability of those that violate laws, rules, policies and working to prevent reoccurrence of misconduct. 

Assigning Sanctions that Will Change Behavior
(1.5 - 2.0 hour session)

Session that focuses on the goal of issuing sanctions: The process of sanctioning should be designed so that all parties feel that they have gained something from the accountability process. This session will review 5 key aspects of sanctioning that will help boards support member’s efforts to change and minimize repeat violations within the organization. 

Promoting Self Governance with Confidence: Training Accountability Boards
(1.0 - 1.5 hour workshop)

How many times in the past year have your students been faced with the challenge of coming up with sanctions to address chapter or individual behavior? How many conversations have you been part of where it felt like the sanction assigned was nothing more than a prescribed remedy? 

In this train the trainer session, participants will be taught a sanctioning model intended to truly change behavior, as well as techniques for utilizing the model in student accountability board trainings.

Effectively Sanctioning Hazing Violations
(1.0 - 1.5 hour workshop)

The completion of adjudicating a hazing case often leaves us feeling as if there is little or no hope of creating long-term sustained change. We must recognize that the sanctions must be designed in accordance with the seriousness of the violation and the circumstances surrounding the conduct.

This is an interactive dialogue during which you will learn strategies for assigning sanctions that have a higher probability of both educating the organization, and providing insight as to how the group can develop modified new member education efforts.