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Professors expand sexual assault research
▶ CHANDLER BOESE
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From left to right: Natabhona Mabachi, Alesha Doan, Juliana Carlson. The professors will spend three years researching sexual assault at other universities to offer recommendations on prevention.
Three University professors who helped the University take steps toward sexual assault prevention are launching a research project to improve prevention across three Midwestern states.
Last month the faculty members, including Alesha Doan, Juliana Carlson and Natabbona Mabachi, were awarded a $750,000 grant to study how eight higher education institutions in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri deal with sexual assault.
After three years of studying those institutions, which included private and public colleges and universities of varying sizes, the researchers aimed to offer a collection of best practices recommendations.
When serving on the chancellor's Sexual Assault Prevention Task Force in the 2014-15 school year, Doan, Carlson and Mabachi looked at the University's sexual assault resources and policies, evaluating what the institution could do better to investigate and prevent sexual assault. The task force made 27 recommendations and University administration decided to implement 22 of them.
Contributed Photos bend three years
"All of the kinds of things we performed on the task force were key to giving us a plan and a pathway for how we would do this at other college campuses." Doan said. "I can't imagine of having applied for the grant without that experience, quite frankly."
Now, the professors are initiating their research, called the Heartland Sexual Assault Policies & Prevention Project, thanks to the grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Doan is a professor in both political science and public policy, while Mabachi practices family medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center and does community work with sexual assault.
Carlson said that campuses in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska are lacking in campus-wide plans to address sexual assault. She said that there may be conversations and activities happening at campuses in those states, but most don't have a developed and research-based plan.
"We need to have more research, we need to have more opportunities for our region to look at addressing sexual assault on college campuses, to kind of lift us
"Our idea in choosing all of these diverse partners is finding the best practices that work at different types of universities," she said. "Developing those best practices that work in these different situations and among these different schools is really the goal."
up and be more on par with the rest of the country," Carlson said.
Doan said that having such diverse profiles will hopefully allow institutions outside of the research to
At the end of the research, the team hopes that they'll help their campus partners develop comprehensive plans for sexual assault. That part of the project will especially benefit from the diverse group of colleges and universities that the researchers are examining. Doan said.
In their research, the professors plan to look at prevention programs, investigate procedures and policies, Carlson said. Each campus will conduct a sexual assault climate survey as well.
implement a plan at their campuses based on plans of similar campuses.
The researchers also hope to develop at a Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) unit on each campus. SARTS are normally linked with community law enforcement and help sexual assault survivors through the aftermath of sexual assaults.
"Why that's particularly important is because on college campuses, with Title IX, students might report that they have experienced some sort of sexual harassment or sexual assault, that never makes it to local enforcement," Carlson said.
All three of the faculty members specialize in sexual assault research, yet belong to different departments. Carlson, an associate professor in the School of Social Welfare, said each of them brings a unique perspective to the team.
"I think the three of us kind of bring these unique lenses," Carlson said. "But we have very,very common interests at heart."
Doan is a professor in both political science and public policy, while Mabachi practices family medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center and does community work with sexual assault.
- Edited by Christian Hardy
First presidential debate won't change much, according to KU political science professor
▶ LARA KORTE
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At the first of three presidential debates Monday night, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump battled it out for over 90 minutes, hitting issues like job growth, crime, and each other's credibility.
The Kansan met with Patrick Miller, a professor of political science at the University, to look at the candidates' performances and what the first debate means for the campaign as the country moves closer to Election Day 2016.
Here are some excerpts from the conversation.
K: If you had to pick a winner from last night's debate, who would it be?
M: I think for the typical debate, for the typical candidate, you think that the person you support, won. That's typically what we see in the polling going back decades, debates are, they're an interesting ritual, they're part of the story that the press, the voters make up to think about, "well, what happened in this campaign?" They're sexy at times if you can get that sound bite, but there's not a lot of evidence they really matter for anything, they don't really move the polls.
K: Will this debate change anything in the polls?
M: Most debates, they're not moving the polls, they're not even moving with these temporary bumps, which is why most political scientists will tell you they're pointless.
But maybe there are a lot of people who might not normally watch a debate
who tuned in because of Trump, and that'll be a very different dynamic. Nobody can predict that, and maybe what they think is going to move the polls. Maybe this will be debate number two that actually matters. Who knows? Maybe in a week we'll have a better sense of that when we can get more data not only on the horse race, but who watched.
K: Did we learn anything new from the candidates last night?
M: No.
We typically don't learn anything new in debates, honestly. I think what we learn from this debate is that the people that Trump and Clinton have been portraying themselves as, that's who they're going to continue to be, that's their persona. I think that if you as a voter, if you like what Clinton is bringing to the table, you think she won, you're going to continue to support her. If you like what Trump's bringing to the table, same thing.
Trump's style is less issues, but he still did hit on the issues that have been central to his campaign. He didn't hit as many as Clinton, he talked about them in a broader way, he talked about them in a simpler, more emotional way. That's his style, and people say that connects better. And if that's what you like, then you're going to think he won.
They differ, a lot. Clinton, her style is more controlled, more reserved, more talk about issues at a deeper level, that's why she gets a reputation as a policy wonk, if you like that, cool, you're going to enjoy what you saw.
K: Do voters watch the debates to pick a candidate, or to watch their candidate?
M: If you look at the 2012 and 2008 debates, over 80 percent of the viewership — and for some debates it was over 90 percent of the viewership — already had their minds made up. They were unmovable. People are watching them, they're like a boxing match. If you support Mike Tyson ... you'd tune in to watch Mike Tyson beat the crap out of the other person, and that's what this is.
M: I feel like we almost had to have one debate to get the a lot of the ridiculous stuff out of the way, like talking about Trump's business record. It's relevant I guess,
M: Typically at this point in a campaign, people tune in at different points, and the vast majority of us, 85-90 percent of us, know who we're going to support in 2020, because we just vote for the party.
K: If a debate won't shift the polls, what will?
The other 10 to 15 percent in a really unusual year maybe 20 percent - they tune in as a process over the course of a campaign. The people who come come in undecided, they pay less attention and they care less, some of them start to pay attention late summer, maybe it's the week before. And that's why campaigns have to constantly be repeating their messages because every day someone new is paying attention for the first time.
K: What will the next two debates look like?
if you want to talk about his character, talking about Hillary Clinton's emails, which I guess are relevant if you care about her character. But it's an issue that's not going anywhere for anybody. Birtherism, which is possibly the most stupid issue that's ever been brought up, I mean his mother was American, that makes him a natural-born citizen, why are we discussing this for the last eight years?
But that kind of nonsense has been what has driven so much of this campaign because, like I said, most voters are just voting on parties, and we have to find something to talk about for two years because we have long presidential campaigns.
I hope that that's out of the system now, but I doubt it. I hope we get more issue discussion going forward, that issue discussion is not going to matter for very many voters, but it will matter for somebody. And even if it's just half a percent of the electorate that really cares what Clinton and Trump have to say about ISIS, that could be the half a percent that decides North Carolina or Georgia.
M: We didn't learn anything new, but it was interesting, there was a lot more engagement than we typically see ... I don't necessarily think that will amount to many minds being swayed, but I think that given that most debates are just ritualistic spectacle, it was a very interesting ritualistic spectacle.
K: Final takeaways?
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