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Myers said the committee does not yet know what the size of the requested budget will be. The Presidential Task Force on Violence Against Women Act recommended financial support for existing programs like Rape Aggression Defense, a type of selfdefense training, and new programs like Haven, an online tool to “help students understand the many aspects of sexual violence, relationship violence and stalking,” according to the task force’s December report. There will be back and forth and negotiations over the budget, Myers said, but Baker is a “big fan” of the task force’s work. The budget may grow over the years, and time will have to be freed up so people can write grant proposals to receive funding for the programs NIU wants to implement, Myers said.
These six subcommittees serving the reform implementation committee: • Policy/compliance • Prevention • Intervention • Survey/assessment/data collection • Response • Student concerns
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These are the kinds of things where you need to hear the message again and again and again.” Kristen Myers Director of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
The committee could do a lot “if we just had [an] unlimited budget,” Myers said. “We’re not in a resource-rich environment anywhere these days and staff are stretched pretty thin already,” Myers said. NIU has faced falling state funding since Fiscal Year 2010, when the state allocated the university $107 million. NIU’s state funding was $93 million in FY 2015, but Gov. Bruce Rauner has proposed cutting that by $29.3 million for FY 2016. “We’re just going to have to make a really good plan that’s fiscally reasonable,” Myers said. “All of this at this point is honestly, ‘Let’s dream big and then be as realistic as possible.’” Reforms NIU has already begun reforms
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to improve sexual assault prevention and awareness efforts, making it required for new students to take online training on the subject. Myers said NIU cannot have optional training and it’s “great” that students will be required to undergo online training. “These are the kinds of things where you need to hear the message again and again and again,” Myers said. Myers’ committee will also work to implement recommendations from the Presidential Task Force on Violence Against Women Act. The task force suggested NIU implement mandatory prevention, bystander and awareness education for faculty and staff. Other suggested changes include increasing advertisement for NIU’s and DeKalb’s advocacy services for victims of sexual assault and strengthening NIU’s relationship with community organizations. Schaid said the implementation committee is in its “infancy” as it spent Wednesday’s meeting hearing from experts to give attendees “a better understanding” of how NIU handles reports of sexual assault. Other changes will be decided by the implementation committee during its next meetings. The committee’s next meeting date is undecided, but Myers said it will be in late April. Those who wish to join subcommittees can email her at kmyers@niu.edu.
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