Stop Campus Hazing Act
The Stop Campus Hazing Act was signed into law late in December of 2024. The law was passed unanimously in the Senate and House before being signed by President Biden and represents a significant step in national efforts to prevent hazing by improving hazing reporting and prevention efforts on college campuses.
Minnesota State University, Mankato has always taken hazing seriously and has worked to raise awareness about hazing and prevent hazing in any form on our campus. The Stop Campus Hazing Act adds another layer to our prevention efforts by requiring the enhancement of transparency, and prioritizing prevention efforts.
Here’s what the Stop Campus Hazing Act means for Minnesota State Mankato:
- Campus Security Authorities (CSA’s) are now required to report hazing. More information about CSA’s and the Clery Act
- Universities will need to disclose incidents of hazing on campus as a crime statistic in their Annual Security Report (ASR). View the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report
- Universities must publish a Hazing Transparency Report and update at least twice per year.
- Universities must provide campus-wide, research-informed hazing prevention training and awareness programs.
Jump to Report an Incident of Hazing
What is Hazing?
As defined in the Minnesota State System Procedure 3.6.1 Student Conduct, hazing is an act which endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a person, subjects a person to humiliation or ridicule, or which destroys or removes public or private property for the purpose of initiation, admission into, affiliation with, or as a condition for continued membership in a student group, organization, or athletic team.
- whipping, beating, striking, electronic shocking, placing of a harmful substance on someone’s body, or similar activity;
- causing, coercing or otherwise inducing sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, extreme calisthenics, or other similar activity;
- causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to consume food, liquid, alcohol, drugs, or other substances;
- causing, coercing or otherwise inducing another person to perform sexual acts;
- any activity that places another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words or conduct;
- any activity against another person that includes a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law;
- any activity that includes, causes, or requires another person to perform a duty or task that involves a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law.
Actions that recklessly or intentionally endanger the physical and mental health or safety of a person include, but are not limited to:
- forced or required consumption of any food, liquor, drug, or any other substance;
- forced or required participation in physical activities, such as calisthenics, exercise, or so-called games;
- excessive fatigue resulting from sleep deprivation, physical activities, or exercise;
- assignment of activities that would be illegal or unlawful or might be morally offensive to individual members, associate members, or pledges;
- physical brutality, including paddling, striking with fists, open hands, or objects, and branding;
- kidnapping, being the transportation with the intent of stranding individuals;
- verbal abuse;
- denial of sufficient time to study;
- the intentional creation of clean-up work or labor for members, associate members, or pledges by active members or alumni; and
- theft of/or damage to property.
D2L Course for Faculty, Staff and Current Students
Minnesota State University, Mankato developed a research-informed prevention program available to all students, faculty, and staff available in D2L Brightspace. This training will equip all members of the Minnesota State Mankato community with the knowledge to recognize, prevent, and respond to hazing behaviors.
Report an incident of Hazing
Don’t assume someone else knows what you know. If you see or hear something that might be hazing, ask questions, find out what’s going on, and speak up. It’s always ok to check in or pass it along to someone who can help.
- Submit the Hazing Report Form
- Contact the Student Conduct Office
- Phone: 507-389-2121
- Email: studentconduct@mnsu.edu
- Contact University Security
- Phone: 507-389-2111
- Email: security@mnsu.edu (not actively monitored 24/7)
