Hazing Education Initiative
at Florida State University
Welcome to the Florida State University community’s website on hazing. Our community believes that all students should be able to participate in campus activities free of concerns of hazing.
Vision
To inspire every member of the FSU community to be a champion of nonviolence, social justice, and advocacy.
Mission
Provide students, staff, and faculty the tools, support, and opportunities to shape a violence-free campus through the design and delivery of innovative and inclusive programming and services.
Values
Our community uses an evidence-based approach to hazing prevention that values the student voice and recognizes prevention is a process not a program.
Effective Prevention Strategies
Effective prevention strategies address multiple levels and are based on the best available evidence, with emphasis on rigorous evaluation that measure changes in behavior. The primary principles for designing effective violence prevention interventions include:
- Prevention-focused in addition to response-focused.
- Comprehensive, addressing multiple types of violence, all campus constituents, and on and off-campus settings.
- Planned and evaluated, using a systematic process to design, implement, and evaluate the initiative.
- Strategic and targeted, addressing priority problems (and their risk and protective factors) identified through an assessment of local problems and assets.
- Research-based, informed by current research literature and theory.
- Multicomponent, using multiple strategies.
- Coordinated and synergistic, ensuring that efforts complement and reinforce each other.
- Multisectoral and collaborative, involving key campus stakeholders and disciplines.
- Supported by infrastructure, institutional commitment, and systems.
