
The barbecue will feature Utah-grown beef, dairy products, pork, onion rings, salad, lamb, corn, apples, Creamies and more. The BBQ will get underway 3 hours prior to kick-off (time to be determined). James Madison football game kick-off time. Start time for the barbecue is tied to the USU vs. It’s nearly time for Aggie football and the annual Utah Agricultural Products Barbecue, hosted by Utah State University’s College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences (CASS). She also is an associate professor of higher education her scholarship focuses on sexual violence prevention and student activism. Chris Linder (she/her/hers) is the director of the McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention, which engages in research and education, at the University of Utah. Participants will leave this workshop with several specific strategies they can use to immediately address campus sexual violence and an action plan for developing educational programming for the campus community.ĭr. In this workshop, Chris talks about moving beyond the “expert model” to engage all members of the campus community who have an interest in addressing relationship and sexual violence. Educators also may feel pressure to use a one-size fits all, “best practices” approach rather than developing their own, context-specific strategies. This pressure has resulted in a hyper-focus on compliance and response - after sexual violence happens, rather than working to prevent it from happening in the first place. Chris LinderĪs attention to campus sexual violence has grown in recent years, educators and staff have been pressured to respond quickly to comply with campus, local and federal policies. Susan Madsen will give an overview of the BWF and then be joined by Nubia Peña and Jennifer Smith for further discussion about the BWF.Ī Collective Approach Workshop: Dr. If we are serious about ensuring that Utah women and girls thrive, we need to create change by 2030, with a check point in 2026. The BWF is framed around systems thinking, which is that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” In Utah, we have been working on related efforts for too long using the “parts” strategy we need to shift and move together as a system. When we lift Utah girls and women, we lift all Utahns! It is time for Utah to embrace A Bolder Way Forward (BWF). Although the needle has moved slightly in a few areas, with its current trajectory it will take two, three, or even four decades to make notable progress. Year after year, Utah continues to have high levels of domestic violence, sexual assault, child sexual abuse, and gender-based discrimination, while also ranking as the worst state for women’s equality and having low levels of women’s leadership representation in nearly all domains, including politics and business. National and statewide studies continue to show that women and girls in Utah are not thriving in critical areas.
