Tulane University joined the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ Culture of Respect Collective, in an effort to combat sexual misconduct on campus. Throughout the two-year long program, Tulane will evaluate and strengthen its sexual misconduct prevention and response strategies. 

Tulane will establish a Campus Leadership Team across academic disciplines and utilize NASPA’s CORE Evaluation tool to assess survivor support services, sexual misconduct policies and procedures, multi-tiered education, schoolwide mobilization, public disclosure and ongoing self-assessment, according to the NASPA website.  

Two of last year’s cohorts, which were made up  of nearly 70 institutions,  improved their CORE Evaluation scores by an average of 17.5% by the end of the program. 

Tulane’s participation aims to build on the “All-In” initiative against sexual misconduct that launched in 2018. In 2017, Tulane conducted a campus-wide survey on sexual assault that showed 41% of undergraduate women reported experiencing sexual assault during their time at Tulane. The school is expected to release results of a similar 2022 survey this spring.