Compliance & Violence Prevention Education
At Central, we are committed to fostering a community where respect is at the cornerstone of all our interactions—Wildcats Build a Culture of Respect.
One way we demonstrate this commitment is by providing all our incoming students with compliance and violence prevention education through Canvas.
- This education aims to prepare students for their journey as a new Wildcat and member of our community.
- In the Canvas course, students will explore modules that cover topics such as consent and healthy relationships, bystander intervention, hazing prevention, as well as fostering a culture of respect and belonging in our campus community.
Learn more about this education, including the length and outline of each course, as well as what to expect and frequently asked questions (FAQs) below.
"Culture of Respect" Canvas Course Modules
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Building a Welcoming Community for Students
One of Central's core values is belonging. CWU believes that a diversity of peoples, cultures, and ideas are essential to learning, discovery, and creativity. Collectively, we take responsibility for welcoming and integrating diverse perspectives into our community.
This 48-minute course delves deep into the importance of fostering acceptance and belonging within your campus community, recognizing the essential pillars for individual growth and collective well-being. You'll learn actions and behaviors you can use to support and collaborate with your fellow students.
Course Outline:
- Introduction
- Your Identities
- Identity
- Intersectionality and How Identities Overlap
- Labels and Labeling
- Challenging Perspectives
- Responding to Criticism
- Multiple Identity Management
- Assumption Awareness
- Disrupting Harmful Behaviors
- Your Influence
- Influence
- Access
- Opportunity
- Othering
- Types of Authority
- Isms & Phobias
- What's an Ally
- It Starts With You
- Calling In and Calling Out
- Self Care
- Your Community
- Terms to Know
- Speaking Freely
- Impact of Your Actions
- Welcoming Strategies
- What Can I Do?
- Active Listening
- What If I'm the One Harmed?
- Conclusion
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Hazing Awareness and Prevention
Hazing is a dangerous ritual taking place at institutions and organizations across the country. While certain activities that groups and clubs use to initiate members may seem innocuous, oftentimes these behaviors can escalate, creating inappropriate and sometimes violent and deadly criminal acts.
This 28-minute course gives students a better understanding about hazing so that they can identify when it’s happening and possibly prevent incidents in the future.
Course Outline:
- Introduction
- Understanding Hazing
- Definition of Hazing
- Examples of Hazing
- Effects of Hazing
- The Dangers of Hazing
- Why Groups Haze
- Who is at Risk of Being Hazed
- Why Some Individuals Agree to be Hazed
- The Anatomy of a Hazing Incident
- Identifying and Reporting Hazing
- Initiating That Involve Alcohol
- How to Recognize Signs of Hazing
- Questions to Ask Yourself
- Effects of Hazing
- Misperceptions of Hazing
- Consequences of Hazing
- Reporting Hazing
- Conclusion
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RespectEdu for College (Undergraduate Students)
By the time we graduate high school and enter college as young adults, we all have vastly different understandings and perspectives about sex and healthy relationships, depending on what we were taught.
This 60-minute course provides college students with an overview of creating and maintaining healthy and informed relationships and sexual interactions. Topics include: defining consent, avoiding assumptions, managing rejection, being a good bystander, seeking support and resources, and others.
Course Outline:
- Introduction
- Creating Healthy and Informed Relationships
- Social Toolkit
- Awareness
- Self-Awareness
- Boundaries
- Social Awareness
- Empathy
- Accountability
- Communication
- Active Listening
- Articulating Your Thoughts
- Consent: What It Is
- Consent as a Conversation
- Characteristics of Consent
- Bodily Agency
- Consent Factors
- Consent and People Pleasing
- Direct Conversations About Consent
- Consent is Clear and Enthusiastic
- Using Clear Cues and Respecting Boundaries
- Consent: Avoiding Assumptions
- Sexual "Scripts"
- Consent Isn't: The Absence of a No
- Consent Isn't: Location
- Consent Isn't: Being Intoxicated
- Consent Isn't: Pressure or Coercion
- What Coercion Really Looks Like
- Avoiding Coercive Behavior
- Examples of Coercion
- No One is Entilted to Sex
- Risk Reduction
- Help is Available
- Managing Rejection and Disappointment
- Experiencing Rejection
- Dealing with Rejection
- Emotions and Behaviors
- Self-Regulation
- Managing Disappointment
- Facing Rejection
- Self-Regulation
- Managing Reflection in Dating
- Emotional Intelligence
- Perspective-Taking
- Being a Good Bystander
- Bystander Intervention
- Handling and Managing Conflict
- Bystander Intervention Techniques
- Hesitation to Intervene
- Enabling Behaviors: Normalizing Predatory Behavior
- Enabling Behaviors: Peers
- Enabling Behaviors: Location
- Sexually Harmful Behaviors
- Bystander Intervention: Reactive and Proactive
- Help is Available
- Seeking Support and Resources When Reporting
- Defining VAWA Crimes
- Building and Seeking Support Networks
- Friendships and Other Relationships
- How Friends Support You
- Nurture Friendships
- Supporting a Friend After an Assault
- After Isolation
- You're In Control
- Focusing on Studies
- Reporting
- Hotlines and Chat
- Tips for Reporting Process
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RespectEdu for Graduate Students
As the course of study intensifies in graduate school, so can relationships with family, oneself, colleagues, advisors, professors and students. For each of these, along with many other parts of life, it’s good to identify goals, energy levels, and boundaries.
This 60-minute course provides students with a comprehensive overview of how to navigate healthy relationships and interactions while in graduate school. Topics include: healthy boundaries, interpersonal dynamics between colleagues, students and advisors, healthy sexual interactions and relationships, consent, rejections, bystander intervention and others.
Course Outline:
- Introduction
- Healthy Boundaries
- Evaluating and Maintaining Boundaries
- Healthy Boundaries
- Determining Boundaries
- Boundaries in Social Settings
- Professional Boundaries
- Professional Friendships: Favoritism
- Communicating Boundaries
- Recognizing Someone Else's Boundaries
- Navigating Relationships: Interpersonal Dynamics
- Student-to-Student Dynamics
- Student to Advisor
- Managing Student-Advisor Relationships
- Favoritism
- Imbalanced Power
- Graduate Student-to-Advisor: Inappropriate Dynamic
- Grad Student as Employee-to-Student Dynamics
- Graduate Student-to-Graduate Student Dynamics
- Inappropriate Dynamics
- Healthy Sexual Interactions and Relationships
- Reasons for Sex
- Why? Emotional Connection
- Why? Stress Relief
- Why? Long-Term Relationships
- Why? Self-Esteem
- Partners are People
- Awareness During Sex
- Checking In
- Care and Recognition
- "Scripted" Sex
- Speaking Openly
- Reciprocating Feelings
- Communication and Consent
- Defining Consent
- Characteristics of Consent
- Consent Factors
- Consent and People Pleasing
- Direct Conversations About Consent
- Consent is Clear and Enthusiastic
- Using Clear Cues and Respecting Boundaries
- Help is Available
- Consent: Avoiding Assumptions
- Sexual Assumptions
- Consent Isn't: The Absence of a No
- Consent Isn't: Location
- Consent Isn't: Being Intoxicated
- Consent Isn't: Pressure or Coercion
- Examples of Coercion
- Managing Coercion: Recommendations
- Before Taking Steps to Accountability
- No One is Entilted to Sex
- Avoiding Coercive Behavior
- Facing Rejection
- Help is Available
- Managing Rejection
- Managing Rejection
- What Does Rejection Look Like?
- Rejection Can be Subtle
- Rejection Can be Indirect
- Managing Disappointment
- Acknowledge Emotions
- Healthy and Safe Socializing- Parties and Events
- Parties and Get-Togethers: Navigation
- It's Okay to be Critical
- Parties and Social Events: Strategies
- Managing Uncomfortable Situations
- Handling Uncomfortable Situations
- Check in With Yourself
- How to Check In
- Check in With Others
- Future Communication
- Documentation
- Being a Good Bystander
- Bystander Intervention
- Tips: Looks for Support and Confidence
- Bystander Intervention Techniques
- Bystander Intervention and Alcohol
- Bystander Intervention: Managing Social Events
- Happy Hours and Networking
- Home Parties
- Hosting and Consent
- Enabling Behaviors: Normalizing Predatory Behavior
- Enabling Behaviors: Peers
- Sexually Harmful Behaviors
- Navigating Relationships: Power Dynamics
- Managing Power Dynamics
- Establish and Maintain Clear Boundaries
- Professional Boundaries
- Seek Support and Document Incidents
- Utilize Institutional Resources and Policies
- Seeking Support and Resources When Reporting
- Defining VAWA Crimes
- Supporting a Friend After an Assault
- You're In Control
- Reporting
- Hotlines and Chat
- Tips for Reporting Process
- Focusing on Studies
What to Expect and FAQs
- Time to Complete the Compliance & Violence Prevention Education
- Incoming students were initially provided access to the course on Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 and will occasionally receive email communication (CWU email) about the "Culture of Respect" course modules until the assignment due date.
- Transfer students who enroll directly prior to or during the first week of the winter 2026 quarter will have additional time to complete the assignments.
- Assignment Due Date
- Assignments in the "Culture of Respect" course have a deadline of 11:59 pm on January 6th, 2026, at the end of the first day of class.
- Transfer students who enroll directly prior to or during the first week of the winter 2026 quarter will have additional time to complete the assignments.
- Completion Required as a Part of Week of Welcome and University 101
- All incoming students are expected to complete this compliance and violence prevention education.
- Incoming first-year students are required to take UNIV 101, which includes participation in Week of Welcome and includes this education as a requirement.
- Course Content Warnings and Exceptions to Required Completion
- Each course has a content warning in the assignment description that should be reviewed by incoming students.
- Anyone with concerns about taking a compliance and violence prevention education course can contact the course contact listed in each assignment description.
- Exceptions to required completion are assessed on a case-by-case basis.
If you have additional questions about the Compliance & Violence Prevention Education, please contact Laura Brant-Hoefer, Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Education and Compliance.
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