The Stop Campus Hazing Act

The Stop Campus Hazing Act (SCHA) (S.2901, H.R.5646) passed into law on December 23, 2024. The Stop Campus Hazing Act is a crucial step towards eradicating hazing on college campuses and ensuring the safety and well-being of students. This bipartisan, evidence-informed legislation is supported by national campus safety experts, national fraternity and sorority trade associations, and the parents of hazing victims. Read our blog, A Historic Step Forward: The Stop Campus Hazing Act Becomes Law, to learn more about the history and passage of SCHA.

The Stop Campus Hazing Act will:

• Improve hazing reporting by requiring colleges to include hazing incidents in their annual security
  report;
• Prevent hazing by establishing campus-wide, research-based hazing education and prevention
  programs; and
• Help students and their parents make informed decisions about joining organizations on campus by
  requiring colleges to publish on their websites the institution’s hazing prevention policies and the
  organizations that have violated them.

When will implementation start?

The timeline for implementation is as follows: 

• January 1, 2025: Institutions should begin collecting hazing statistics to include in the annual security report. 
• June 23, 2025: Hazing policies must be in place.
• July 1, 2025: Institutions must have a process for documenting violations of the institution’s standards of conduct relating to hazing.
• December 23, 2025: The Campus Hazing Transparency Report, which includes the violations that institutions begin documenting in July, must be publicly available. The Campus Hazing Transparency Report must be updated at least two times a year.
• October 1, 2026: Hazing statistics will first be included in the 2026 annual security report (2025 statistics).

How can I start planning for these changes?

• Download Clery Center's free resource, the Stop Campus Hazing Act: Getting Started Guide
• Review your process for notifying and training campus security authorities on their responsibilities, as well as forms or systems used for incident reporting. Plan to update these materials to include hazing.
• Determine what hazing policies already exist on campus and whether they address hazing prevention and awareness. 
• Bring together roles that will be involved in implementation of these requirements (including conduct professionals, public safety, and prevention educators) to discuss what policies or procedures may need to be updated.
• View Clery Center's and StopHazing's free webinar to learn more about the Stop Campus Hazing Act.
• Stay tuned for more information about our training series launching this winter.

Read more in our blog, The Stop Campus Hazing Act: What You Need to Know, and please reach out to us if you have any questions at [email protected]. 

What is hazing?

Hazing is any activity expected of someone joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers them, regardless of a person’s willingness to participate.

There are three components that define hazing:

1. It occurs in a group context
2. Humiliating, degrading, or endangering behavior
3. Happens regardless of an individual’s willingness to participate

Definition via: StopHazing Research Lab. (2020, December). Hazing: The Issue, StopHazing Consulting. https://www.stophazing.org/issue

Clery Center’s Hazing Prevention & Education Resources

Created in partnership with StopHazing

Updated in 2022!

“We Don’t Haze” documentary film & supplemental resources

In this short film, families and victims of hazing testify to the true impact these so-called “traditions” have on campus communities. We take a deeper look at the causes and consequences of hazing and speak to leaders who have pledged to help end these practices.

We Don’t Haze helps identify hazing behaviors, and offers organization leaders alternative traditions that promote a safer, more positive team-building experience.

Updated in 2022, the We Don’t Haze Companion Guide provides you with the tools to educate yourself and your community about campus hazing and facilitate programming for students, staff, and faculty using We Don’t Haze.

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Campus Commitment to Hazing Prevention: Action Guide

In 2018, StopHazing and Clery Center released the Hazing Prevention Toolkit for Campus Professionals, which outlines the data-driven Hazing Prevention Framework© (HPF). 

The Campus Commitment to Hazing Prevention: Action Guide provides practical resources focused on one of the HPF components — commitment. Use the Action Guide to engage campus leaders and the broader campus community in eliminating campus hazing culture and transforming group environments to support healthy belonging and well-being for all students.

Get the Action Guide

Hazing Prevention Toolkit for Campus Professionals^®

Campus hazing can have far-reaching negative consequences for individual students, their families, student organizations, groups, and teams, and the broader campus community. Because hazing is a complex issue that reflects campus culture, there is no “one size fits all” solution. The purpose of this Hazing Prevention Toolkit for Campus Professionals is to describe components of a data-driven Hazing Prevention Framework (HPF)© based on key principles of prevention science and findings from a research-to-practice project, the Hazing Prevention Consortium (HPC) led by StopHazing™.

While effective responses to hazing are vital, this document emphasizes activities that prevent hazing before it begins. Designed with college and university senior leaders in mind—including Presidents, Provosts, Vice Presidents, Deans, Directors, and other executive and administrative leaders in academic and student affairs—this Toolkit includes action steps to help guide campus professionals in campus-wide, comprehensive hazing prevention.

Get the Toolkit

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