At the end of April, Huffington Post Live hosted College Week, a week to discuss all of the hot topics related to colleges.  What can we do about the rising cost of college? Can college dropouts still get good jobs?  How can we combat rape culture on college campuses?

Check out Feministing's blog "Kick off Sexual Assault Awareness month with 'Surviving in Numbers'."  This tumblr, created by Mount Holyoke junior Ali Safran, is a tumblr that shows images of signs posted by students at locations where they experienced sexual assault on campus.  

​CALCASA hosted a webinar with SAFER Campus this past March for Campus Grantees to discuss how to effectively include students in campus policy development and revision.  In the webinar, SAFER spoke about a national study they recently conducted of student anti-rape activists, Moving Beyond Blue Lights and Buddy Systems: A National Study of Student Anti-Rape Activists.  Their findings have just been released publicly.  

SAFER Campus and The ACLU Foundation - Women's Rights Project teamed up to create, Know Your Rights and Your College's Responsibilities: Title IX and Sexual Assault.  This fact sheet provides information to student activists about how they can use Title IX as an effective tool for change on their campus. Click here for the publication.

Happy Sexual Assault Awareness Month! As many of you know, April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a great opportunity to engage your campus communities in raising awareness about sexual assault. This awareness raising could include information about your services and resources, community resources and events and prevention activities that are occurring.

Futures Without Violence has just announced a new opportunity for 6 graduate-level students looking to change how their campuses address violence againt women on campus.  

Watch the video below to see an overview of CALCASA's Coordinated Community Response (CCR) institute at the Office on Violence Against Women's (OVW) Campus Grant Training and Technical Assistance Institute from February 5th to 7th in Birmingham, AL.

Recently in the media we have seen numerous news stories of college students vocalizing discontent with their universities about policy and response to sexual assault on campus.   Therefore, CALCASA decided to join together with SAFER Campus to host a webinar for OVW Campus Grantees

Today President Obama signed the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act.  Part of the Re-authorization of the bill includes the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (SaVE) Act, which creates more requirements on how universities handle sexual assault, dating violence and stalking on campus.  Photo: Flickr/jcolman