This roundtable will discuss ways that we at SUNY New Paltz have begun to recognize and respond to the widespread problem of sexual assault. Speakers will share ideas for how we as teachers and administrators can 1. use teaching materials and methods to have productive conversations about how to recognize, protect against, and prevent sexual assault, and to understand the gender and power dynamics that undergird it; 2. use campus events to make the problem and the culture that sustains it visible, and begin to make changes in that culture; 3. respond thoughtfully to students' and each other's feelings about experiences of sexual assault, as they come up in classroom settings, office hours, and faculty meetings such as our MeToo faculty group.

Our speakers will offer examples, and provide space for open discussion, of innovative approaches created in and outside the classroom to address what we see as an urgent need of our students, faculty, and administration at this cultural moment, as we wake up to the horrible reality that sexual assault has long been considered normal behavior. In this way we are meeting both "individual students' needs" and "the needs of our constantly changing world.”