Sexual Assault Prevention at the University of Michigan

SAPAC/Athletic Collection Collaboration

In 1998, SAPAC and the UM Athletics Department collaborated to create a series of workshops for student athletes about sexual assault prevention. The following materials in this collection reflect these efforts. SAPAC and staff from the Athletics Department (including legendary football figure Greg Harden) designed documents presented here as a guide for facilitators leading a SAPAC workshop for student athletes.

Both the title (“Violence Against Women Training”) and content of these documents feature gendered language that emphasize women as the targets of sexual assault and intimate partner violence by a male perpetrator. The workshops also include a discussion about Michigan laws concerning sexual assault and intimate partner violence, suggestions for bystander intervention, and case studies about “Dating Violence” and “Sexual Assault” in which participants were read a scenario and asked about how they would react. Student athletes were also shown a video. Throughout the workshop, participants were asked to think about their roles as friends or peers in enabling a culture of sexual assault. A small portion of the training addresses how to support a friend who has experienced sexual assault.

This workshop is not necessarily the exact type of training the student athletes who filled out surveys that are available on this archive received. However, it does offer insight into SAPAC’s pedagogical approach and workshop structure to educate student groups, teams, and organization, and one way they strove to raise awareness about sexual assault prevention in partnership with other UM departments and organizations.

Due to file size limitations, each page of this training outline has been uploaded individually. To download the entire packet, select the following link: SAPAC/Athletic Collection Collaboration on Violence Against Women.

Content Notification

The scenarios described on pages 3 and 7 depict sexual assault and intimate partner violence in detail.

Copyright Notification

The Regents of the University of Michigan hold the copyright to the materials from this collection. We have reproduced them here solely for educational purposes. Please do not remove the images from this page and re-use them for any purpose.

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  1. SAPAC/Athletic Collection Collaboration on Violence Against Women [Page 1 of 9]
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  3. SAPAC/Athletic Collection Collaboration on Violence Against Women [Page 8 of 9]
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  5. SAPAC/Athletic Collection Collaboration on Violence Against Women [Page 2 of 9]
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