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Consent on Campus: A Manifesto

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A 2015 survey of twenty-seven elite colleges found that twenty-three percent of respondents reported personal experiences of sexual misconduct on their campuses. That figure has not changed since the 1980s, when people first began collecting data on sexual violence. What has changed is the level of attention that the American public is paying to these statistics. Reports of sexual abuse repeatedly make headlines, and universities are scrambling to address the crisis.

Their current strategy, Donna Freitas argues, is wholly inadequate. Universities must take a radically different approach to educating their campus communities about sexual assault and consent. Consent education is often a one-time affair, devised by overburdened student affairs officers. Universities seem more focused on insulating themselves from lawsuits and scandals than on bringing about real change. What is needed, Freitas shows, is an effort by the entire university community to deal with the deeper questions about sex, ethics, values, and how we treat one another, including facing up to the perils of hookup culture-and to do so in the university's most important space: the classroom. We need to offer more than a section in the student handbook about sexual assault, and expand our education around consent far beyond "Yes Means Yes." We need to transform our campuses into places where consent is genuinely valued.

Freitas advocates for teaching not just how to consent, but why it's important to care about consent and to treat one's sexual partners with dignity and respect. Consent on Campus is a call to action for university administrators, faculty, parents, and students themselves, urging them to create cultures of consent on their campuses, and offering a blueprint for how to do it.
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"Donna Freitas' authoritative new book couldn't have arrived at a better time. With original research, compelling stories, and compassion for the entire college community, Freitas deftly deconstructs the thicket of issues that make the subject of consent so difficult to navigate. A ground-breaking examination of the crisis on our campuses, it offers thoughtful solutions-both ethical and practical-that can help restore meaning to the notion of consent. This book is a clarion call, one that we must heed." --Patricia McCormick, author of the National Book Award finalists Sold and Never Fall Down

"This manifesto challenges and empowers universities to live up to their ideals by applying intellectual rigor toward eliminating sexual violence on our campuses. Through thought-provoking questions and narratives, Donna Freitas reminds us-faculty, staff, students, administrators, trustees-of both our power and our responsibility to create a future of hope and a culture of dignity, justice, and consent in our communities." --Dr. Judi Biggs Garbuio, Vice President for Student Development; Michelle Wheatley, Assistant Vice President for Mission and Ministry; Jill Yashinsky-Wortman, Director of the Center for Cura Personalis, Gonzaga University

"Freitas's book is both informative and timely, addressing recent developments and setbacks in the consent movement. It digs for the roots of the problem, examining how colleges got to this place, from where trauma is frequent and inflicted without repercussions. Freitas interrogates mainstream ideas about consent, sex, and gender,
forcing the reader to reevaluate their own preconceived notions and biases, with the last third of her book devoted to practical solutions for colleges to implement. The result is a well-researched, accessible book that lays bare the disturbing realities that many students face every day."- Foreword Reviews

"Donna Freitas' timely book struck a deep chord... While the book suggests specific
strategies for dealing with issues of consent on campus, the power of this work dwells in creating more space for the questions that might, one hopes, lead to a better sexual culture on campus."- Women's Review of Books

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Consent on Campus is a call to action and a blueprint for addressing sexual assault on college campuses.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (September 4, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190671157
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190671150
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.8 x 5.5 inches
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THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO is Donna Freitas’s first adult novel. She has spoken at nearly two hundred colleges and universities about her nonfiction work. She is the author of CONSENT: A MEMOIR OF UNWANTED ATTENTION, as well as ten novels for children and young adults. Donna has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe, and she has appeared on radio and television, from NPR’s All Things Considered to The Today Show. She has been a professor at Boston University and Hofstra University, and is currently a member of the faculty at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program. Learn more at www.donnafreitas.com

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Reid McCormick
5.0 out of 5 stars A really good resource...
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2018
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Here is a free history lesson in higher education:

In Loco Parentis was the name of the game since the beginning. College administrators controlled everything including the personal lives of students. They dictated what students learned, what they ate, when they slept, and even who they dated. As society progressed into the 1960’s, administrators tried to keep their authoritarian power but (most) finally relented. This gave way to a new era higher education when the administration pendulum swung over to laissez-faire. Colleges didn’t care what you said or did, as long as you weren’t cheating. Even if you broke the law, colleges took a step back and left everything to the judicial system.

Recently, things have started to change. As the price of higher education has increased rapidly over the past couple of decades, students, parents, and legislators have all demanded colleges to take more responsibility. Legislation like the Clery Act and Title IX Amendments have required schools to upkeep a certain level of safety for students. Additionally, major events like the Virginia Tech and the #MeToo have shifted conversations on responsibility.

Sex on college campuses has been a huge topic for decades. Recently, colleges have been given two seemingly opposing directives. Directive one: when it comes to sex, stay out of way; let students make their own decisions. You can educate them and give them options, but it is their bodies. Allow them to control their body. Directive two: the moment you know about a sexual assault, you must step in immediately and correct the situation.

Now, yes, I have oversimplified these directives and it may seem like I am minimizing or poking fun at a serious topic but I think it is important to notice the struggle on college campuses.

Consent on Campus works through all this information and more. The author shares her experiences presenting on colleges throughout the country. She recounts her numerous conversations with college students and how they admit to being culpable to the negative sexual culture found on college campuses.

I really enjoyed this book and the author’s approach. I wrongly assumed she was going to simply attack colleges for not doing enough then and now. She brings in great information and challenges the norms that have been accepted.

I think this book is a great read for anyone on a college campus.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2019
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Kelsy
5.0 out of 5 stars Hugely important and nuanced
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2023
A must read to understand sexual politics in America today
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TammyJo Eckhart
4.0 out of 5 stars Thought Provoking
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2019
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Professor Freitas has been studying student sexual attitudes (and actions) on college and university campus across America and her finding are scary. While administrations and government policy focus on issues of verbal consent and the use of drugs or mental conditions that might render consent impossible, they ignore the development of an attitude that may be undermining all concerns about consent -- Hookup Culture.

The book is for anyone but it is directed to Presidents and other upper administrators on campus according to the introduction. Hooking up wasn't unknown when my partner was in college (graduated 2003) but he'd never heard of the hookup as the dominant attitude toward sex; instead he heard of casually seeing multiple people and friends with benefits as the goal (at least for other men). Administrators are likely older than my partner so this book needs a clearer definition of hookup culture and a clear timeline and explanation for how and why it developed.

The book shines when it describes current attitudes toward sex and relationships across men and women. It is so maddening to read that almost zero value is being placed on women's sexual pleasure let alone sexual choice. As much as the choice is felt to be missing from the men's lives at least their pleasure remains the focal point of the entire hookup. What is missing however is the diversity that Freitas says we need to include so I think she needs to do more surveys and interviews to give the President she wants to read this book a fuller picture.

The last section of the book offers advice for how college campus could address the attitudes and try to change them. The steps are fairly detailed without limiting how different types of schools might enact them. However, I have to point out that if students are coming to school as first years knowing following these behavioral models, wouldn't the better target for these steps be high school or at least also include high school?

I agree that this book needs to be read and used by college officials to help them address campus attitudes toward sex and relationships. I think that as more and more women attend college compared to men, the attitudes will change but it might be for healthier or better unless we can break up beliefs that students ascribe to today.
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Jane Rosenthal
5.0 out of 5 stars Important topic for the times we are in
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2019
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This is a very timely and important book. At a time when addressing sexual assault and harassment on campus is under legal and political pressure in very conflicting ways, this book presents important and timely analysis of many of the issues campuses are confronting. As an administrator in higher education, I appreciate the author's scholarly and thorough approach to the topic. The style is a little dry and perhaps not as salacious as some publications' approach, I found it to be thoughtful and balanced, and the author gives each side their voice.
I am still thinking about this book and how to apply the ideas for policy and risk-management strategies.
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J. Stoner
5.0 out of 5 stars Well Documented and Researched. Timely and Appropriate.
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2019
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We hear a lot these days about consent on college campuses. As someone who works in higher education I am pretty familiar with Title IX and the various implications placed on colleges in reporting and aiding students (both alleged survivors and perpetrators). With so much surface level, emotional reporting in the news, this book provides an easy access to more of the nuance of consent on campuses actually means and how it impacts students and administrators. It's a thought provoking book.
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