StopHazing’s StandUp to Hazing course suite turns hazing research into short online training for students, faculty, staff, advisors, coaches, parents, teams, clubs, and organizations. The Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors selected the suite for a 2026 Elevation in Practice Impact Award.
The courses focus on recognizing warning signs, responding safely, reporting concerns, examining group pressure, and building healthier group practices.What is included in the course suite?
StandUp to Hazing: Foundations is an introductory course designed to take about 20 minutes. StopHazing states that it includes six short lessons, built-in assessments, saved progress, mobile access, and learning materials designed to meet WCAG 2.1 accessibility requirements.
StandUp to Hazing: Faculty and Staff is a 30-minute course for higher-education professionals. Its subjects include early warning signs, supportive responses, reporting, role boundaries, and ways educators can reinforce healthy expectations through ordinary contact with students.
The Values in Action Booster is a 15-to-20-minute refresher for people who have already completed introductory prevention education. It uses scenarios and reflection to reinforce bystander action, ethical decisions, and responses to group pressure.
StandUp to Hazing: Foundations · StandUp to Hazing: Faculty and Staff
What did AFA recognize?
The Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors describes the suite as research-informed microlearning with audience-specific content, assessments, progress tracking, and attention to bystander intervention and healthy group cohesion.
AFA selected the program in its Impact category, with the award scheduled for presentation during the association’s December 2 through 5 meeting in Chicago.
Short courses can create a shared baseline for several campus populations without requiring everyone to complete the same lesson. Completion time alone does not prove effectiveness. Course quality must also be judged through content, accessibility, learner response, retention, behavior, reporting practices, and long-term safety results.
Where is the course being used?
Stanford University provides a documented implementation example. Stanford describes StandUp to Hazing as a 20-minute, smartphone-accessible course with knowledge checks and saved progress.
The university requires the training for incoming undergraduate, transfer, and graduate students; Campus Security Authorities; leaders of registered student organizations; varsity and club-sport leaders; fraternity and sorority leaders; and student-government leaders.
This confirms use across several types of student groups rather than limiting prevention education to Greek-letter organizations. Stanford’s adoption does not establish that every institution uses the same course, requirement, or target population.
What results have been reported?
StopHazing reports that more than 94 percent of students completing Foundations said they had increased confidence in recognizing hazing. It also reports that 96.7 percent of Faculty and Staff pilot participants agreed that they better understood their prevention role.
These are provider-reported learner responses. They should not be presented as independent proof that hazing incidents decreased.
The public pages do not provide a total learner count, number of participating institutions, complete survey instruments, response rates, comparison groups, long-term retention results, changes in incident reports, or course pricing for each institution. Those limits define what the current evidence can support.
Why does this matter to the Greek-letter ecosystem?
Hazing prevention cannot depend only on telling candidates to refuse dangerous conduct. Members, chapter officers, advisors, alumni, headquarters staff, faculty, coaches, families, and institutions all influence whether warning signs are recognized and acted upon.
Role-specific education makes that shared responsibility easier to understand. It also helps prevent fraternities and sororities from being treated as the only groups where hazing can occur. Athletics, bands, clubs, residence communities, student government, and other organizations may face related risks.
StopHazing states that its course content supports education requirements connected with the federal Clery Act and Stop Campus Hazing Act. An institution should still complete its own legal and policy review because one online course does not replace required policies, prevention programs, reporting processes, transparency reports, records, or institutional response.
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