75.060-5 - The Politics and Policy of Responding to the Crisis of Campus Sexual Violence

• In Event: 75.060 - Roundtable Session 33

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This timely symposium addresses the political and policy discussions about sexual violence currently occurring across higher education institutions as well as in some of our nation’s highest federal offices. Specifically, we attend to the challenges that higher education institutions face when attempting to implement effective policy and practices regarding sexual violence prevention and response. Panelists will offer research that examines (1) issues of institutional prestige, politics, and reputation; (2) the reductionist and limiting powers of policy; (3) how sexual violence is framed discursively within higher education policy; and (4) heterosexist assumptions about who can and cannot experience sexual violence in higher education. All of these factors impact prevention and response policy development as well as institutional action.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 7: Social Policy and Social Context

Chair

• Roland W. Mitchell, Louisiana State University

Papers

• Embodied Policy: A Discourse Analysis of Sexual Violence Policies in Higher Education - Susan V. Iverson, Kent State University

• Combating Sexual Violence in the Ivy League: Reflections on Politics, Pain, and Progress - Susan Marine, Merrimack College

• Heterosexist Discourses: A Critical Analysis of the History of Sexual Violence Prevention in Higher Education - Sara Carrigan Wooten, Louisiana State University