Campus Programming and Education

Goal: To educate participants about the early warning signs of relationship abuse and what they can do if they witness or experience these warning signs. The Escalation Workshop is a 90-minute film-based discussion led by trained facilitators and does not work as well in a drop-in format.

Goal: To engage students in practicing bystander intervention techniques in a variety of situations, including alcohol misuse, mental health concerns, sexual assault, interpersonal violence, and hate and bias incidents. This program is facilitated with a PowerPoint and does not work as well in a drop-in format.

Goal: To educate students about proper use of barrier methods including condoms, dental dams, and internal condoms. Increase students’ knowledge of sexual health related topics including abstinence, contraception, STIs/STDs, healthy relationship and communication, and human biology. Increase students’ confidence and comfort of sexual health information and contraceptive methods. Educate students about how to communicate consent and boundaries in relationships. This program encompasses a wide variety of both sexual health and violence prevention topics.

Goal: To educate students on active consent through the metaphor of creating and sharing a pizza. Please note that the program requestor will need to supply pizza (typically ordered from Chartwells). This program is facilitated with a PowerPoint and does not work as well in a drop-in format.

To fulfill both state and federal mandates that colleges and universities train all new, incoming students on sexual violence prevention, all incoming UWL students (undergrads and grad students) are expected to complete:  

Vector Solutions Required Online Training Courses Sexual Assault Prevention (SAP) 

Students will receive required online training prior to the beginning of the semester.  Students are expected to complete the course before the deadline provided.  Students that do not complete the course will receive a hold on their WINGS account that will prevent registration.  You can work at your pace from any computer (requires Flash player). Y ou can leave and return to the course at any time, and when you return, it will open on the page you left off.

Incoming Freshmen and Transfer Students

All new incoming freshman and transfer students will receive SAP for Undergrads prior to fall classes beginning.  They will receive SAP for Undergrads Part 2 mid-October.

Graduate Students On Campus

All new incoming graduate students on campus will receive SAP for Graduate Students prior to fall classes beginning. 

Graduate Students Online 

All new incoming graduate students online will receive SAP for Adult Learners prior to fall classes beginning.

The Universities of Wisconsin seeks to provide members of the university community with appropriate tools to promote and maintain safe living, learning, and work environments where members of the university community and guests feel welcome and are safe.

The UW requires that all of its employees complete a designated online training module, a standardized Title IX training program that meets legal requirements, explains rights and responsibilities, and helps to create safe, welcoming, harassment-free campuses and university environments.

Our institutions recognize that preventive and educational efforts will require collaboration with community agencies and other educational institutions (K-12, technical colleges, etc.) to reduce risk as students matriculate into higher education.

Employee programs generally includes content that:

• Defines what behavior constitutes domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the State of Wisconsin;
• Defines what behavior and actions constitute consent to sexual activity in the State of Wisconsin;
• Provides safe and positive options for bystander intervention that may be carried out by an individual to prevent harm or intervene when there is a risk of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, or stalking against a person other than the bystander;
• Provides information on risk reduction so that employees may recognize warning signs of abusive behavior and how to avoid potential attacks;
• Informs employees of student and employee Title IX rights and covers sexual harassment, misconduct, and assault;
• Provides training designed for responsible employees around who misconduct must be reported to on campus;
• Provides training designed for responsible employees around what must be included in the report;
• Provides training designed for responsible employees around consequences for failure to report;
• Outlines procedures for responding to students’ requests for confidentiality;
• Includes contact information for the Title IX coordinators as well as a direct link for email;
• Provides methods of responding to a survivor;
• Provides information they must provide to students who disclose a sexual assault

Mandatory training for new hires must be completed within 30 days of the employee's first day of employment.

Mandated Reporter training is required for all employees of the UW System.

Preventing Sexual Harassment and Violence is required for all employees of the UW System. In addition to other consequences, ongoing failure to complete may result in progressive discipline.

Current Employees will be expected to complete the preventing sexual harassment and violence training every three years. In addition to other consequences, ongoing failure to complete may result in progressive discipline.