WASHINGTON — The National Academies’ Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education has launched a new Partner Network to include a range of higher education-focused organizations in sharing their work to prevent and address sexual harassment in higher education. Thirteen organizations have joined the Partner Network as an inaugural group.
“Effectively preventing harassment requires collective sharing not only from colleges and universities but also from organizations across the higher education ecosystem,” said Cynthia Barnhart, chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the Action Collaborative’s leadership group. “These groups possess diverse perspectives and solutions that can be of great value to the work of the Action Collaborative, and the new Partner Network will help us capture and integrate that knowledge.”
The National Academies’ Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education was created in 2019 to facilitate the work of higher education institutions in developing and implementing efforts that move beyond basic legal compliance to evidence-based policies and practices for preventing sexual harassment. Sixty colleges, universities, and research institutions are currently members.
Organizations that join the new Partner Network pledge to contribute in the following ways:
participate actively in the work of the Action Collaborative;
share information about the organization’s efforts and innovations around preventing and addressing sexual harassment; and
use, adapt, implement, and share the resources and practices that are identified or published by the Action Collaborative.
The inaugural Partner Network Organizations are:
Association of American Universities (AAU)
Center for Institutional Courage
Emory University
Fieldwork Initiative
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Oregon State University
The 1752 Group
University of Arizona
University of California, Davis
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Whatcom Community College
The organizations’ statements of commitment to doing this work and information about how other organizations can join can be found on the Action Collaborative’s website.
Participation in the Partner Network is open to higher education institutions; higher education-affiliated or other academic research institutes or laboratories; higher education associations; grassroots and advocacy organizations interested in addressing sexual harassment in higher education; federal agencies; national laboratories; philanthropies and for-profit companies with an interest in higher education; and other groups that primarily focus on preventing or responding to sexual harassment in higher education.
Contact:
Sara Frueh, Senior Media Officer
Office of News and Public Information
202-334-2138; news@nas.edu