Explore this list of special resources for group leaders, parents and families, and anyone seeking to examine hazing within student groups and organizations. Discover effective strategies to prevent or interrupt hazing and learn about real-life hazing stories.
Education and Training
- Hazing Fact Sheet Collection
- Hazing 101
- Group Relationships and Dynamics
- Bystander Education Materials
Recommended Resources
The websites listed on this page provide additional resources and information that may be helpful to the Weill Cornell community.
- Cornell University Hazing Website.
- Hazingprevention.org is a leading national organization dedicated to providing current information related to hazing and hazing prevention to individuals and organizations. Resources offered on their website include, information about what you can do, links to videos, personal stories, newsletters, and National Hazing Prevention Week initiatives.
- StopHazing.org provides accurate, up-to-date hazing information for students, parents, and educators and a list of hazing laws by state. It includes informative articles on hazing in various contexts, including high schools, the military, athletic teams, and fraternities and sororities. The website also provides information about the National Study of Student Hazing and the Hazing Prevention Consortium, a multi-year research-to-practice initiative led by StopHazing to build an evidence base for hazing prevention on college campuses in the U.S. and beyond.
- Inside Hazing: Understanding Hazardous Hazing provides practical information on all aspects of hazing as well as the theoretical perspective of Susan Lipkins, PhD, author of "Preventing Hazing: How Parents, Teachers, and Coaches Can Stop the Violence, Harassment, and Humiliation."
- Unofficial Clearinghouse to Track Hazing Deaths and Incidents composed by one of the nation's leading experts on hazing, Hank Nuwer, this website compiles new hazing stories and reports on hazing incidents.
Videos
- Impact of hazing: Love, Mom & Dad: Parents of Tim Piazza, Max Gruver and Marquise Braham, who tragically lost their lives to fraternity hazing, share their stories in an effort to end hazing in any student organization. The discussion was part of the A.D. White Annual Summit for Sororities & Fraternities on Nov. 2, 2019.
- Bystander intervention: Intervene: Produced by the Skorton Center for Health Initiatives in collaboration with the Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble, Intervene uses brief scenarios to demonstrate ways in which student bystanders can successfully intervene in problematic situations. Seven different situations are addressed, including sexual assault, sexual harassment, intimate partner violence (emotional abuse), hazing, an alcohol emergency, emotional distress, and bias. NOTE: This film is 19.47 minutes long. The hazing-specific scene begins at 3:17.
- Joining a group? Watch this! All of us have a need to belong. And everyone deserves to be
treated with respect within a group, team, or organization. Watch this 2-minute video to see how hazing looks in some settings and learn what to do about it.
Relevant Institutional Links
- Graduate School of Medical Sciences
- Medical Education
- Policies & Procedures
- Handbook (Note sections "Governance of Medical Student Organizations and Groups" and "Establishing New Organizations and Groups")
- Student Groups & Community Service
- Master of Science in Health Sciences for Physician Assistants
- Student Services
- Emergency Information