The Stop Campus Hazing Act

The Stop Campus Hazing Act (SCHA) (S.2901, H.R.5646) passed into law on December 23, 2024. The Stop Campus Hazing Act is a crucial step towards eradicating hazing on college campuses and ensuring the safety and well-being of students. This bipartisan, evidence-informed legislation is supported by national campus safety experts, national fraternity and sorority trade associations, and the parents of hazing victims. Read our blog, A Historic Step Forward: The Stop Campus Hazing Act Becomes Law, to learn more about the history and passage of SCHA.

The Stop Campus Hazing Act will:

• Improve hazing reporting by requiring colleges to include hazing incidents in their annual security
  report;
• Prevent hazing by establishing campus-wide, research-based hazing education and prevention
  programs; and
• Help students and their parents make informed decisions about joining organizations on campus by
  requiring colleges to publish on their websites the institution’s hazing prevention policies and the
  organizations that have violated them.

Implementation timeline:

• January 1, 2025: Institutions began collecting hazing statistics to include in the annual security report. 
• June 23, 2025: Hazing policies are in place.
• July 1, 2025: Institutions have a process for documenting violations of the institution’s standards of conduct relating to hazing.
• December 23, 2025: The Campus Hazing Transparency Report, which includes the violations that institutions begin documenting in July, was made publicly available. The Campus Hazing Transparency Report must be updated at least two times a year.
• October 1, 2026: Hazing statistics will first be included in the 2026 annual security report (2025 statistics).

What resources does Clery Center have available to help?

• Register for our Investigating Hazing Incidents virtual training on March 5, 2026 or August 11, 2026.
• View Clery Center's and StopHazing's free webinar to learn more about the Stop Campus Hazing Act.
• Download our Stop Campus Hazing Act: Getting Started Guide
• Check out more free resources related to hazing on this webpage, below.

Read more in our blog, The Stop Campus Hazing Act: What You Need to Know, and please reach out to us if you have any questions at [email protected]. 

What is hazing?

Hazing is any activity expected of someone joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers them, regardless of a person’s willingness to participate.

There are three components that define hazing:

1. It occurs in a group context
2. Humiliating, degrading, or endangering behavior
3. Happens regardless of an individual’s willingness to participate

Definition via: StopHazing Research Lab. (2020, December). Hazing: The Issue, StopHazing Consulting. https://www.stophazing.org/issue

Clery Center’s Hazing Prevention & Education Resources

Created in partnership with StopHazing

“We Don’t Haze” documentary film & supplemental resources

In this short film, families and victims of hazing testify to the true impact these so-called “traditions” have on campus communities. We take a deeper look at the causes and consequences of hazing and speak to leaders who have pledged to help end these practices.

We Don’t Haze helps identify hazing behaviors, and offers organization leaders alternative traditions that promote a safer, more positive team-building experience.

The We Don’t Haze Companion Guide provides you with the tools to educate yourself and your community about campus hazing and facilitate programming for students, staff, and faculty using We Don’t Haze.

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Campus Hazing Policy Planning Tool

The Campus Hazing Policy Planning Tool was developed by StopHazing and Clery Center to help institutions strengthen their campus hazing policy and the required annual security report (ASR) policy statements under the Stop Campus Hazing Act (SCHA). Passed in December 2024, SCHA requires institutions to include specific hazing policy statements in their ASRs, making it essential for campuses to review and update existing policies or develop new ones where gaps exist.

This resource provides insight and guidance to help campuses evaluate their current hazing policies, understand required ASR policy elements, and identify opportunities for improvement. Using reflection questions, notes sections, and action-planning prompts, the tool supports both individual practitioners and cross-functional teams as they plan policy updates, clarify scope and definitions, and align campus practices with federal requirements and emerging best practices.

Get the Policy Planning Tool

 Campus Commitment to Hazing Prevention: Action Guide

In 2018, StopHazing and Clery Center released the Hazing Prevention Toolkit for Campus Professionals, which outlines the data-driven Hazing Prevention Framework© (HPF). 

The Campus Commitment to Hazing Prevention: Action Guide provides practical resources focused on one of the HPF components — commitment. Use the Action Guide to engage campus leaders and the broader campus community in eliminating campus hazing culture and transforming group environments to support healthy belonging and well-being for all students.

Get the Action Guide

Hazing Prevention Toolkit for Campus Professionals^®

Campus hazing can have far-reaching negative consequences for individual students, their families, student organizations, groups, and teams, and the broader campus community. Because hazing is a complex issue that reflects campus culture, there is no “one size fits all” solution. The purpose of this Hazing Prevention Toolkit for Campus Professionals is to describe components of a data-driven Hazing Prevention Framework (HPF)© based on key principles of prevention science and findings from a research-to-practice project, the Hazing Prevention Consortium (HPC) led by StopHazing™.

While effective responses to hazing are vital, this document emphasizes activities that prevent hazing before it begins. Designed with college and university senior leaders in mind—including Presidents, Provosts, Vice Presidents, Deans, Directors, and other executive and administrative leaders in academic and student affairs—this Toolkit includes action steps to help guide campus professionals in campus-wide, comprehensive hazing prevention.

Get the Toolkit

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