First Name:
Kirstie
Last Name:
Wolf
Major Department:
Anthrolopogy
Thesis Director:
Donna Lillian
Date of Thesis:
May 2014
Across America, the higher education system has been plagued with actions and behaviors that culminate in interpersonal violence, including sexual violence. National policies have attempted to prevent assaults and educate college students about this type of violence. Some of these policies include Title IX, the Clery Act, and the Campus SAVE Act. Individual college campuses have done their own part in attempting to prevent and educate their students against interpersonal violence in general, with particular attention given to preventing and educating about sexual violence, and its causes and consequences. Appalachian State University is one such campus that has been addressing these problems through the Interpersonal Violence Task force, the Campus Climate Safety Survey, among other initiatives. Although ASU is in compliance with the national policies concerning interpersonal violence, specifically sexual violence, and has implemented its own avenues of dealing with this violence, the university continues to experience incidents of violence. In my research, I critically evaluate ASU's current prevention and educational resources about sexual violence, and offer possible ways of improving the resources in order to make them more accessible and useful to students.