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Campus and Community Engagement; Campus Activities Staff: Responsible for educating organization leaders around adherence to policy by offering training resources and coordinating logistics with the organization’s leadership team to provide training. Monitors and oversees completion statuses in Campus GroupsCampusGroups. Sets and monitors expectations for advisors and organization leadership. Meets with the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards to review and manage post-incident sanction completion and behavior mitigation. Provides resource information to organizations and individual members in need of support.

Advisors: Responsible for setting expectations and monitors adherence to policy and submits reports of violations and inappropriate behaviors around organization and individual behavior . Submit and supporting in educating student leaders. Submit referrals via the University’s Hazing website (www.hazing.cornell.edu) and/or to Student Conduct and Community Standards.

Cornell Clery Compliance Office: Responsible for conducting annual training for all Campus Security Authorities and publish statistical data related to Clery violations in the Annual Security Report.

Student Conduct and Community Standards: Investigates hazing reports and manages hearings then delivers and monitors Reviews all reports and responsible for resolution according to the Student Code of Conduct and Procedures including sanction completion. Notifies (Inter)National Organization Headquarters, as neededChapter Headquarters when there is disciplinary action. Reports criminal behaviors to law enforcement and provides data for Clery compliance.

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 the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life Campus Activities to provide educational trainings on hazing and bystander intervention education (e.g., Intervene, How to Recognize and Respond to Hazing).

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 Registered Organizations flowchart
• Cornell Student Code of Conduct
• OSCCS flowcharts
• The Big Red Guidebook
• Club Advisors, chapter 8
• Registered Student Organization Annual Registration
• Registered Student Organization Officer Quiz
• Registered Student Organization Advisor Quiz
• 2023-2024 approved Approved organizations lists
• How to Recognize and Respond to Hazing (Spring 2024 online version of Skorton Center training for students)
• 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)

• Hazing Policy Statement

• Annual Security Report

• CampusGroups
• Campus Kaizen Guardian
• Canvas
• Drupal website software: (hazing website)

• Organizational and individual behaviors around identifying and responding to hazing behaviors comprehension of training materials and available resources will vary per individual.
• Advisors’ knowledge, attitudes toward hazing practices, and familiarity with Cornell’s definition of hazing and the Student Code of Conduct policy vary per individual. Education about hazing and how to recognize and respond to it is not required of advisors.
• Organizational and individual behaviors may be influenced based on the training focus and expectations set by their advisor.
• Educational trainings on hazing, bystander intervention, and culture change strategies including positive group team building (that does not involve hazing) are not tied to eligibility to join groups, teams, or organizations or serve in leadership positions within a registered student organization.
• Advisors strategize and use discretion of when and where to refer organizational and individual behaviors to the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards.The advisor is chosen by the Campus and Community Engagement and is
• Student organizations are classified into two groups. University Organizations have advisors assigned by a university unit or department. Independent Organizations have advisors who are staff or faculty serving in a volunteer capacity. All student organizations, regardless of classification, must have a full-time staff or faculty advisor. Advisors are subject to change.
• Violations of the Student Code of Conduct may result in loss of recognition and the inability of the organization to acquire funding, host events, and qualify for club insurance, but investigations may not result in an identification of involved individuals. When this occurs, individual offenders are permitted to remain on campus and may repeat behavior.
• When loss of recognition occurs,  the opportunity to intervene and provide education to individuals impacted and/or involved in behavior is lost.
• Collusion, resulting in inappropriate disclosure of information between those who have been hazed and perpetrators of hazing, may occur during the investigation.
• Unclear understanding of who has final approval of the content that is posted on the hazing website.
• 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.       Officers submits Officer and Advisor the annual student organization registration form.

2.       Officer and Advisor form is generated.

3.              President, VP, Treasurer, Advisor each complete form, including "quiz" and attestationare each required as part of the annual re-registration process to review and attest to understanding the Student Code of Conduct definition of hazing (as written in the Student Code of Conduct) as prohibited conduct for registered student organizations.

4.       Completion reports are generated out of CampusGroups & monitored by Campus Activities staff.

5.       Members are expected to familiarize with The Big Red Guidebook, which includes information and resources related to hazing.

6.       Organizations are sent details and highly encouraged to attend National Hazing Prevention Week activities held annually in September each Fall (organized by Sorority and Fraternity Life).

7.       Organization Leadership, Advisors, and Campus Activities Staff members monitor organizational and individual behavior and provide resources as needed.

8.       Allegations against group, team, organization and/or individual are reported to campus authorities.

9.       OSCCS provides data analytics with Student Campus Activities.

Adjudication:

1.       Intake Incident report is received by OSCCS.

2.       Assessment and next steps are determined by OSCCS, Campus Partners, and Involved Parties as applicable.

3.       When warranted, incident is reported to National Organization Headquarters national organization headquarters to be handled externally concurrently with campus and/or legal sanctioning.

4.       Incident is resolved through formal complaint, alternate dispute resolution or dismissed.

5.       OSCCS provides written description of incident outcome to Skorton Center, who posts reviews and collaborates with Student & Campus Life Communications to post the summary to https://hazing.cornell.edu/violations

6.       Criminal behavior is reported to law enforcement for external proceedings, concurrently with campus sanctioning.

Accountability:

• National Organization, where appropriate, may impose sanctions and/or fines may be imposed.
• Cornell sanctioning by OSCCS .
• Criminal behavior managed externally by law enforcement.
• Loss may include but is not limited to loss of university recognition, funding, and ability to host events.
• Criminal behavior managed externally by law enforcement.
• Individual(s) may be removed from organization and/or campus.

• Campus Activities to track hazing prevention education completion against leadership, advisor, and member rosters.
• Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards track # of reported allegations with their outcomes.
• Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards track recidivism.
• 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
• MC: Mitigating Control

Between  2001  and  2015,  Cornell  University  developed  a  comprehensive  (i.e.  multi-component) public health hazing prevention model that addresses  individuals,  organizations,  and  the  broader  environment.  This model includes eight elements: leadership and  culture  change  strategies;  policy  initiatives;  educational  initiatives;  positive  team-building;  reporting  options;  enforcement;  support  for  victims;  and  transparency  regarding  violations.  For more information visit www.hazing.cornell.edu

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