As members of the Volunteer community, we must all work together to end hazing.
Addressing hazing prevention with your group or student organization can feel overwhelming. Let our hazing prevention facilitators lead the way! This training is an interactive, scenario-based program tailored to fit the needs of various audiences. It is flexible in length and covers what constitutes hazing, how to notice signs of hazing, and how to respond.
Be Proactive in Preventing Hazing
- Know the rules
- Review the Student Code of Conduct
- Complete Hazing Prevention Training
- Clarify expectations of membership
- Members should be clear and transparent with new members about what they will encounter when they join the group.
- Hold yourself and your peers accountable
- When planning activities, consider the following:
- What are the potential outcomes?
- How does this activity align with the core values of the group?
- What do you want members to gain from the experience?
- What do you want your organizational culture to be? What you permit, you promote. The culture of any organization is shaped by the worst behavior leaders are willing to tolerate.
- Provide alternative activities for bonding
Hazing Prevention Trainings
The University of Tennessee Hazing Prevention Team works in collaboration with departments across campus to educate the campus community on how to identify, act on, and prevent hazing. The trainings are research-informed and have been reviewed through the Piazza Center WhatWorks study. Trainings emphasize the prevention of hazardous drinking, hazing, and other resulting behaviors, with the goal of changing student, organization, and campus culture.
- Hazing Prevention Workshop: Request a personalized workshop for your student organization to learn more about how to identify, act on, and prevent hazing.
- HazingEDU: Request this interactive, scenario-based workshop to inspire your club, group, or team members to explore how to create healthy, meaningful relationships in your organization.
- Hazing Prevention Consultation: Request a small group or one-on-one staff consultation to discuss your questions, concerns, and ideas for hazing prevention in your group or club.
- Hazing Prevention Module: Take this module to better under what hazing is, and how to report the behavior.
- Hazing Prevention Workshop: Request a workshop for your area to learn how to identify, act on, and prevent hazing.
- Hazing Prevention Certificate Training: Request the Certificate Training to take a deeper dive into hazing prevention and the overlaps with the area that you work in. Participants will walk away with a workbook that provides tangible ways they can identify, act on, and prevent hazing.
- Hazing Prevention Module: Take this module to better under what hazing is, and how to report the behavior.
The Hazing Prevention Team works in collaboration with departments across campus to offer research-informed education throughout the year. Throughout your time at the University of Tennessee, you may see the following:
- Hazing Prevention Week: The Hazing Prevention Team facilitates programming for National Hazing Prevention Week annually to bring awareness across campus.
- First Year Studies Courses: All First Year Studies Courses, along with BUAD100 include hazing prevention information during a student’s first semester at the University of Tennessee.
- Vol 101: This is a required online orientation program for all incoming undergraduate students. This program introduces students and families to valuable resources on campus, including hazing prevention.
- New Member Orientation – Health and Safety Module: The New Member Orientation – Health and Safety Module is a holistic orientation Canvas module for new members of the sorority and fraternity community covering resources surrounding alcohol, drugs, hazing, mental health, and sexual misconduct.
- Greek Bystander Intervention Training: Every August, all sorority and fraternity chapters receive bystander intervention training to explore campus resources and learn how to act using the three D’s: Direct, Delegate, and Distract. This training is scenario-based and discusses hazing, alcohol, drugs, sexual misconduct, and mental health.
Request a Hazing Prevention Resource Card
You can request a resource card for yourself or request a copy for everyone in your group.