Blog #2

For P2, I wanted to focus on a rising epidemic that has affected many lives in recent American which is Campus safety. To further my knowledge of this exigent issue, and create a synthesis I read both Higher Education: Don't Rape and Spring Safety on Campus.

Unfortunately, student sexual violence has been a huge problem many college campuses face. vulnerable individuals are being taken advantage of for whatever reason. According to the image below, sexual violence is alive, active, and not being taken care of. Safety is an ever growing concern for college campuses. Administration is in charge of ensuring protection of their students. They address this issue to the best of their ability. I want to focus directly on how safety on campus could be improved. With time, things are constantly changing whether they are for the better, or for the worse. Something like protection of students must always be improving until rape rates decline to zero.

My proposed action or solution to this issue is to develop a mandatory informational sessions, or rather a class. Within this class a variety of strategies would be introduced to provide students, faculty, and staff with opportunities to acquire information on sexual assault and develop behavioral skills that will enable them to enhance their own safety as well as others on campus. These sessions will be carried out throughout the school year which is more ideal then having only one session at the beginning of the school year.  They will be beneficial because they will keep campus members attentive to their actions at all times.

With these sessions in operation many people may be opposed to contributing, as they feel it's a waste of time. I would propose these subjects as my proposed stakeholders. This group may feel as if the issue is not important enough, or they would be able to handle themselves in that type of situation. I believe that these people are an ideal target because these are the people who are most ignorant towards the possibilities. The classes would steer them in the right direction and adhere their attention to this case. If the college's goal is to empower students to make them the next world leaders, how could that occur if their campus isn't cultivated as inclusivity and safety? (Kehal, Ledesma Nadler 2). This issue is exigent because of this very reason. If universities want their students to better the world, it takes more than just basic math and writing skills. The students must meet higher demands that are attentive to their actions in which contribute to a social world; thus making the world a better place.