McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education

The McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention (MCVP) seeks to bridge the gap between research and education by bringing together researchers, prevention educators, and students to focus on scholarship and best practices for understanding, intervening in, and preventing sexual violence.

More specifically, our work includes leading four research teams (with a total of 25 different researchers from across the US), all aiming to understand how we can interrupt and respond to harm and violence in higher education--we’ve conducted a total of 183 interviews and 7 focus groups and analyzed 155 student participant journal entries across 3 of the teams this year alone ; we also work to empower student staff with knowledge to gain a deep understanding on relationship and sexual violence in order to bring it to their own communities in meaningful ways; and we actively develop nuanced prevention workshops for our campus community including the Reading and Respecting Boundaries and Accepting Rejection (RRBAR) workshop that was born out of conversations where it became clear that many students simply did not understand how to navigate boundaries and rejection, which can lead to harm--RRBAR increased student readiness to evaluate their own actions, an ability to recognize the “smaller” instances of harm, and knowledge surrounding harm broadly - setting the framework for a campus free of violence.

Our goal is to continue to this pace of creative and necessary primary prevention education and research so that we are able to make our campus, campuses across the nation, and our world a safer, violence-free place for all. This U Giving Days join others with a gift to support the critical work of the MCVP and our community.