The Symposium for Hate Crimes and Violence on Campus is an initiative of the "Stop the Hate!" Campus Hate Crime Prevention Program.   “Stop the Hate!” supports colleges and universities in preventing and combating hate on campus as well as fostering the development of community. [more information]

Program Objectives

The Association of College Unions International through the “Stop the Hate!” Campus Hate Crime Prevention Program shall develop and implement strategies that will reduce hate crimes on college campuses.  The program objectives of the project are:

•    to foster a comprehensive approach to and comprehensive perspective on the hate crime problem on college campuses;

•    to encourage dialogue between colleges and universities and from within the campus community to initiate a coordinated inter/national strategy to effect change;

•    to develop a system of delivery and resources specific to colleges and universities on hate crime prevention;

• to create an inter/national coordinated public awareness campaign to communicate a statement of anti-hate and behaviors/expectations for students, faculty, and staff to share with their campuses;

•     to understand how to manage freedom of speech/First Amendment issues and the skills to manage student concerns, such as Nation of Islam (Farrakhan et al), the New Black Panther Party, the World Church of the Creator; Holocaust Denial Advertisements; Ex-Gay Reparative Movement;

•     to develop ongoing partnerships with agencies and associations to create effective strategies and educational resources geared toward colleges and universities;

•    to acquire the tools to begin to address bias-related incidents on campus; and

•    to produce a Train the Trainer program that will enhance our ability to actuate change because of its grassroots outreach on college campuses.