- Introduction (Feb 16)
- Brief historical context and background.
- Description of my role within the Administration and within the civil rights community in addressing these questions.
- Discussion about current areas of focus and challenge.
- Portrait of Movements, Movement Leaders: From Campus to the Nation (Feb 23)
- Current campus movements to prevent and address sexual assault and harassment
- Description; Areas of Focus/Debate; What has worked
- Speaker: Payton Head (University of Missouri), Rini Sampath (USC), and
- Description; Areas of Focus/Debate; What has worked
- Current campus movements to prevent and address sexual assault and harassment
Jamal Edwards (Duke University)
- Portrait of Movements, Part II: Movement Strategies (March 1)
- Current campus movements to address racial harassment and improve school climate
- Description; Areas of Focus/Debate; What has worked
- Speaker: Sofie Karasek, Co-Founder of End Rape on Campus and
- Description; Areas of Focus/Debate; What has worked
- Current campus movements to address racial harassment and improve school climate
Diane Rosenfeld, Lecturer at Harvard Law School
- Examining Bias (March 8)
- Survey of the nature and impact of racial harassment and discrimination on campus; exploration of how student interactions and campus institutions are transformed through acts of violence; exploration of bias; and how these concerns are both reflected in and influence political and power structures on campus and the surrounding community.
- Speaker: Phil Goff, President, Center for Policing Equity
- Survey of the nature and impact of racial harassment and discrimination on campus; exploration of how student interactions and campus institutions are transformed through acts of violence; exploration of bias; and how these concerns are both reflected in and influence political and power structures on campus and the surrounding community.
- Understanding Impact and Trauma: Racial Harassment and Campus Climate (March 22)
- Survey of the nature and impact of sexual assault and harassment on campus; exploration of how student interactions and campus institutions are transformed through acts of violence, use of symbols; exploration of bias; and how these concerns are both reflected in and influence political and power structures on campus and the surrounding community.
- Intersectionality (March 29)
- Exploration of civil rights laws and campus adjudication processes that address harassment and discrimination on the basis of race and sex.
- Speaker: Fatima Goss Graves, Vice President, National Women’s Law Center
- Exploration of civil rights laws and campus adjudication processes that address harassment and discrimination on the basis of race and sex.
- Structural Context – Segregation and Access (April 5)
- Discussion of the structures that may support or allow for violence and harassment on the basis of sex and race, and the historical and current segregation and access challenges that interplay with these issues on campus.
- Speaker: Bea Hanson, Principal Deputy Director, Office of Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice
- Conclusions and Wrap-Up (April 12)