Word: casah
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...work on building trust with the student body. Luckily for the University, they have a chance to affirm their commitment to student needs—a chance to build trust with both the activists and joe-schmoes of Harvard. This chance is the Committee Addressing Sexual Assault at Harvard (CASAH...
...administration will build trust with the student body when student interests and opinions are clearly respected. In a very positive step that is much to its credit, CASAH has sought student opinion much more actively than many University committees have in the past. By Nov. 18 members of the committee had held 40 private meeting with various individuals and groups, from both within the University and outside it. By winter break the committee will have run six discussions in different houses, an idea which Coalition Against Sexual Violence member Alisha Johnson ’03 said her group suggested...
...case of CASAH, the University will not be able to build student trust simply by having solicited student opinion throughout the committee process. Due to the confidentiality of all personal meetings with and letters to CASAH, it will be difficult to judge the degree to which student input is incorporated into the committee’s final recommendations. Additionally, if student interests are represented in to the committee’s recommendations but are not reflected in what the administration chooses to implement, the trust that has been built by the committee thus far will have been in vain...
...Johnson explained, “to reform education, resources and disciplinary procedures dealing with sexual assault at Harvard. Few of the changes we have sought over the past five years have been realized and our efforts at improvement have been frequently resisted by the University. However, we hope that CASAH is the beginning of a change in that mindset and are looking forward to the concrete, tangible improvements that will come from the committee’s recommendations...
...Committee Addressing Sexual Assault at Harvard is a promising opportunity for the administration to begin the “change in mindset” to which Johnson refers. The administration should continue to demonstrate an interest in and respect for student interests and opinion through the implementation of CASAH recommendations. The administration can work on becoming more likeable later—it should start building trust...