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Hazing Researchers release Maine Study Just Now

Here is the link. Good stuff here. Thanks to all for hard work.

Go right to the study on web: other link

Note from researchers:

We are writing to share the exciting news that the The National Agenda for Hazing Prevention is being released today.  The Agenda is a product of collaboration emerging from the 2009 National Hazing Symposium co-sponsored with HazingPrevention.org and is intended to serve as a guiding framework and national call to action (to sustain current and ignite new hazing prevention efforts).

Key purposes of the Agenda are to:
  • Further catalyze dialogue and collaboration related to hazing prevention.
  • Fuel more widespread public recognition of hazing as a health and safety risk to students.
  • Emphasize the importance of grounding prevention efforts in research and evaluating prevention strategies for their effectiveness.
The four overarching goals of the Agenda are as follows:
Goal #1: Increase extent to which hazing is considered a priority health and safety issue.
Goal #2: Advance research about hazing and its prevention.
Goal #3: Increase available evidence about effective hazing prevention.
Goal #4: Build campus, school, and community capacity to develop hazing-free environments.
Attached is the version to be posted on our website (www.hazingstudy.org) and circulated electronically.  Please feel free share with your constituents and/or others who may be interested.  As always, we thank you for your support of the research to inform effective hazing prevention and for your continued commitment to this important issue.

Best wishes for a safe holiday.

Elizabeth Allan & Mary Madden
Co-Directors
National Collaborative for Hazing Research and Prevention.

Contact info for media:
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Elizabeth J. Allan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Higher Education
The University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469
elizabeth.allan@umit.maine.edu
207-581-3166

By Hank Nuwer

Journalist Hank Nuwer tracks hazing deaths in fraternities and schools. Nuwer is the Alaska author of Hazing: Destroying Young Lives; Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, High School Hazing, Wrongs of Passage and The Hazing Reader. In April of 2024, the Alaska Press Club awarded him first place in the Best Columnist division and Best Humorist, second place.

He has written articles or columns on hazing for the Sunday Times of India, Toronto Globe & Mail, Harper's Magazine, Orlando Sentinel, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. His current book is Hazing: Destroying Young Lives from Indiana University Press. He is married to Malgorzata Wroblewska Nuwer of Warsaw, Poland and Fairbanks, Alaska. Nuwer is a former columnist for the Greenville (Ohio)Early Bird and former managing editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in Alaska.
Nuwer was named the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists columnist of the year in 2021 for his “After Darke” column in the Early Bird. He also won third place for the column in 2022 from the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He and his wife Gosia, recently of Union City, Ind., have owned 20 acres in Alaska for many years. “The move is a sort-of coming home for us,” said Nuwer. As a journalist, he’s written about the Alaskan Iditarod sled-dog race and other Alaska topics. Read his musings in his blog at Real Alaska Daily--http://realalaskadaily.com and in his weekly column "Far from Randolph" in the Winchester Star-Gazette of Randolph County, Indiana.

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