UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Timothy J. Piazza Center for Fraternity and Sorority Research and Reform at Penn State has partnered with the Hazing Prevention Network (HPN) to create a new Hazing Prevention Symposium this June in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The Hazing Prevention Symposium, with support from the National Federation of High School Associations, will be hosted in conjunction with the Hazing Prevention Institute by the Hazing Prevention Network at the NCAA Hall of Champions and Conference Center on June 11-12. A research think-tank-style program, the goal is to create a community of scholars and leaders dedicated to ending hazing. It is a space for researchers studying hazing and hazing prevention, and for senior professionals to gather, share and interact.
The Piazza Center and the HPN share a commitment to inform professional practice and provide continued professional development for leaders and practitioners, and will benefit from sustained relationships with and the intellectual contributions of many partners from across the high school and higher education landscape, including organizations, resource groups and individual scholars. Stevan Veldkamp, Piazza Center executive director, explained that this partnership will amplify research-informed practice in ending hazing, and challenge us to think about the pipeline of hazing form high school to college and college into organizations.
