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Senior Deputy AD for Student-Athlete Experience:  Responsible for developing and coordinating overall plan to provide education on hazing within athletics.

Athletics Sport Administrator: Responsible for supporting the Director of Athletics , and the Senior Deputy AD for the Student-Athlete Experience, Student-Athlete Support, Development, and Inclusion, coaches and student-athletes in completion of team training and, with guidance from OSCCS, may be asked to consult with, lead and/or track adjudication and sanctioning efforts relative to team conduct and incidents. The Athletics Sport Administrator monitors completion of required training.  Meets weekly with the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards to review and manage post-incident sanction completion and behavior mitigation. In the event of team allegations, upon request, collaborate with Athletics Director or his or her designee (Sr. Deputy AD for Student-Athlete Experience), and sport administrator to determine next steps, sanctioning and adjudication process for team conduct.

Coaches: Responsible for setting team expectations and rules for individuals on their team.  All expectations are expected to be consistent with Federal and New York State law, NCAA, Ivy League and other sport governing bodies’ rules, the Cornell University Student Code of Conduct and Student Code of Conduct Procedures, Policy 6.4 (Prohibited Bias, Discrimination, Harassment, and Sexual and Related Misconduct) and the Procedures for Resolution of Reports Against Students under Cornell University Policy 6.4, and the Code of Academic Integrity .  Coaches:

• Select and administer (in partnership with campus partners) annual educational training from a list of options, which may include hazing;
• Address misconduct and make appropriate referrals or report; involve Sport Administrator immediately with regard to any hazing allegations or concerns to ensure appropriate report and follow-up;
• Are responsible for setting the team culture, communicating that the team does not tolerate hazing; Conduct intermittent check-ins with student-athletes to take pulse on current team conduct and behaviors.

Student-Athlete Support, Development, and Inclusion Staff (in athletics): In conjunction with Sport Administrator and coaches, monitors completion of required training.  Meets weekly with the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards to review and manage post-incident sanction completion and behavior mitigation. In the event of team allegations, upon request, collaborate with Athletics Director or his or her designee (Sr. Deputy AD for Student-Athlete Experience), and sport administrator to determine next steps, sanctioning and adjudication process for team conduct.Athletics Compliance: In conjunction with coaching staff, monitors and tracks attestation completions in ARMS.

Student Conduct and Community Standards: Investigates hazing reports, manages case resolution, and delivers and monitors sanction completion for individuals. Report Reports criminal behaviors to law enforcement.

Skorton Center for Health Initiatives: Provides institutional leadership on hazing prevention strategies (e.g., Cornell's Hazing Prevention Model), delivers prevention focused educational trainings to students and employees on hazing, bystander intervention and how to recognize and respond to hazing, manages the University’s collaborates with SCL Communications team to curate the University hazing website (hazing.cornell.edu website), collaboratively implements communication strategies and campaigns about hazing prevention, conducts research on students’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to hazing among Cornell students, uses data driven-strategies to address hazing, and participates in public engagement and collaborative opportunities with national hazing prevention organizations and universities across the country to address hazing. The Skorton Center also collaborates with Athletics to provide educational trainings on hazing and bystander intervention education (e.g., Intervene, How to Recognize and Respond to Hazing) as requested.

Student and Campus Life Communications: Coordinate with colleagues in the Skorton Center around timely and accurate communications (may include, but not limited to: website posts, community messaging) of hazing related incidents.

Cornell Clery Compliance Office: Responsible for conducting annual training for all identified Campus Security Authorities and including the campus hazing policy statement and Clery reportable statistics of hazing in the Annual Security Report.

• Hazing Prevention Among Student Athletes flowchart
• Educational Programming Options
• Cornell Student Code of Conduct and Procedures
• OSCCS flowcharts
• Cornell University’s Hazing Website
• Cornell University’s Hazing Prevention Model
• JACH Publication on Cornell University’s Hazing Prevention Model
• Stop Hazing: Hazing Prevention Consortium (Cornell participated from 2013 – 2016 in the first cohort)
• Student-Athlete Handbook

• Hazing Policy Statement

• Annual Security Report

• Teamworks: Compliance and Recruiting (formerly ARMS)
• Campus Kaizen Guardian
• Canvas
• Drupal website
• Real Response

1. Team and individual behaviors around identifying and responding to hazing behaviors and comprehension of training materials and available resources will vary per individual.
2. Coaches’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding hazing may vary per individual.
3. Team captains’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding hazing may vary per individual.
4. Coaches are required to enforce participation of their athletes in one training per year, but the training is selected by the coach from a list of offerings and may not include hazing prevention and awareness training.
5. If the team does not select hazing education, required education is limited to a baseline video and associated acknowledgement of hazing policy.
6. Team and individual behaviors may be influenced based on the training focus and expectations set by their coach.
7. Coaches may use discretion of when and where to address team and individual behaviors.
8. Although student-athletes, upon being added to a roster, must attest to having received baseline education to be eligible, students may be added to rosters at any time and therefore may miss team and department education provided at specific points in time.
9. The sport administrator is chosen by the Athletic Director and is subject to change.
10. Investigations by OSCCS or Athletics may not result in identification of involved individuals. When this occurs, individual offenders are permitted to remain on campus and may repeat behavior.
11. Collusion, resulting in inappropriate disclosure of information between those who have been hazed and perpetrators, may occur during the investigative process.
12. Campus Kaizen Guardian allows for anonymous reporting (which is a best practice), but does not allow user-friendly, encrypted communication with individuals who desire ongoing communication and support.

Education/Prevention:

1. Athlete submits student athlete handbook Student Athlete Handbook and associated student-athlete rights and responsibilities attestation upon activation to roster and before participation.
2. Athlete reviews and attests to receipt of baseline hazing specific education upon activation to roster and before participation.
3. Athlete attends athletic orientation , kick-off and resource fair on the first night of classes during fall semester. Hazing materials are available at the resource fair.
4. Athletes attend or review recordings of team meetings and receive and commit to team expectations (reviewed by sport administrator).
5. Athletes attend other training(s) of their coach’s choosing each year (trainings range from conflict resolution, diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, how to recognize and respond to hazing, Intervene, Friend 2 Friend, Let’s CU FlourishCultivating Your Well-Being Toolkit, etc.).
6. Athletes are enrolled in the Student Athlete Support Services Canvas course, which includes information directing students to University hazing prevention resources and messages.
7. Sport Administrator and Coach, in consultation with Sr. Deputy AD for Student-Athlete Experience and Associate AD for Support, Development and Inclusion monitor team and individual behavior and provide resources as needed.
8. Allegations against team and/or individual are reported to campus authorities.

Adjudication:

1. Intake report (Campus Kaizen Guardian, Ethics Hotline, or Real Response) is received by OSCCS and/or Athletics.
2. Athletics, in consultation with the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards (OSCCS) is responsible for investigating Varsity athletic team hazing reports, determining sanctions, and managing appropriate follow-up for team-based allegations. 
3. Assessment and next steps determined by OSCCS, Athletics, and Involved Parties.
4. Individual incident resolved through formal complaint, alternate dispute resolution or dismissed; Team incidents referred to Athletics
5. Criminal behavior is reported to law enforcement for external proceedings, concurrently with campus sanctioning.

Accountability:

1. Cornell sanctioning by OSCCS for individuals is managed by OSCCS.
2. Cornell sanctioning for team conduct is managed by Athletics. and/or Athletics
3. Criminal behavior managed externally by law enforcement.
4. Violations Team violations are posted on Cornell University’s hazing.cornell.edu website by OSCCS in collaboration with Athletics and SCL Communications.
5. Athletics sanctions to be determined based on investigation and in consultation with OSCCS, but could include:

• • Verbal and/or Written reprimand/warning, including probation
  • Harm Repairing Actions
  • Individual Reflection
  • Additional Training/Education
  • Suspension from practice or games (can differ for team vs individuals)
  • Suspension from all athletic privileges
  • Dismissal from team (individual)
  • Cancellation of season (team)

• Athletics staff to track hazing prevention education completion against team rosters.
• Athletics staff to track topic of educational programming selected by coach.
• Athletics conducts end of season surveys in Real Response.
• Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards track # of reported allegations with their outcomes for individuals.
• Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards track recidivismviolations for individuals and teams.
• Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards collaborates with the University hazing website programmers to post team violations.
• The Skorton Center for Health Initiatives administers surveys to assess students’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to hazing.

• OSCCS: Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards
• NCAA: National Collegiate Athletics Association