This presentation will provide an overview of emerging trends in preventing and responding to sexual misconduct with a focus on undergraduates. Strategies that focus on alcohol use prevention and Greek life have been in use for decades—and are still important components of a comprehensive strategy. However, sexual misconduct prevention and response are taking new directions on some campuses. Attention to issues such as meeting the needs of neurodivergent students and disabled students, the influence of pornography on sexual and dating norms, providing support for those who have perpetrated or caused harm, are now emerging as important. This presentation will introduce audience members to these new topics in college campus sexual misconduct and focus specifically on one example of a training for college sexual assault counselors about autism that was developed by the speaker.

From group chats to gaming forums to AI-generated porn, online spaces play a major role in how young people—especially men and boys—learn about relationships, identity, and belonging. This session explores how digital culture can both reinforce and reshape harmful ideas about masculinity. We’ll discuss how university staff can support students navigating these spaces, promote healthy online communities, and intervene when online behaviors cause harm.

Campus professionals and community-based clinicians working with students engaging in problematic sexual behavior are often confronted with the question, “How do we bolster the safety of this student and the campus?” This is relevant whether or not there is formal process moving forward, and especially when a student returns to the community post-adjudication. This session will explore two approaches. One is the University of Michigan’s Review and Reintegration program, which provides a pathway to a restorative return to the community for students eligible to return to campus post-suspension. The other is a Safety Planning guide from the Victim Rights Law Center, designed to offer staff at colleges and universities a practical tool to explore safety planning process for responsible students and students who have/or are concerned about engaging in sexual misconduct.

As more campuses move toward providing support services for respondents in campus sexual misconduct processes, it is important to identify effective strategies for this work. In this session, we discuss the findings and implications from a qualitative study with 24 practitioners who work with respondents. After sharing an overview of the study, including discussing the methodology and findings, we will dialogue with session attendees about the implications of the findings for their work and contexts.

For many years, campus professionals and researchers have tried to determine who accounts for the sexual harm that happens on campuses: is it many students engaging in behaviors once or infrequently, or a smaller number of students who are repeatedly engaging in harmful behaviors? The answer to that question is both a thorny research issue and critical to how we shape response and prevention programs. Project Callisto is an encrypted information vault that allows survivors to enter details of their experience, be connected to on- and off-campus options and resources, and potentially match with other survivors who identify the same responsible party. This session offers a review of current research and a conversation about the various lenses we need to use to figure out how to structure the best survivor support, treatment interventions, and where it points campus practitioners in prevention and early intervention work.