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Multiple programs are available to WSU students, about consent and respect, risk reduction, and hazing. The definitions and WSU policies in place to respond to sexual assault, sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence and stalking are included in these programs.

Consent and Respect:

• This module is available to all students, but required for incoming first year undergraduates and transfer undergraduates. It addresses complexities around unwanted sexual experiences. The course content empowers individuals to help others as active bystanders. This program allows students to understand how they can be an integral part of addressing gender-based violence. This workshop includes information about campus policies, resources and reporting options for students. In this workshop, students learn about WSU’s prohibition on dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. They also learn the following definitions:
  • Dating violence: Intimate partner abuse is conduct or threats which are targeted against a person with whom an individual is in or had been in a romantic, sexual, or dating relationship, where the conduct or threats are used to coerce, intimidate, or control the person. This may include physical, verbal, emotional, psychological, or financial assault and/or control. It may also include direct or indirect conduct, as well as threats or conduct directed towards the person’s family, friends, property, or pets.   
    • Domestic violence: A felony or misdemeanor crime of violence committed
    • By a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim
    • By a person with whom the victim shares a child in common
    • By a person who is cohabitating with, or has cohabitated with, the victim as a spouse or intimate partner 
    • By a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the crime of violence occurred, or
    • By any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the crime of violence occurred.
  • Sexual assault: Nonconsensual sexual contact is any intentional sexual touching, however slight, with any object or body part, by one person against another person’s intimate parts (or clothing covering any of those areas), or by causing another person to touch his or her own or another person’s intimate body parts without consent and/or by force. Sexual contact also can include any intentional bodily contact in a sexual manner with another person’s nonintimate body parts. It also includes nonconsensual sexual intercourse.
  • Consent: Consent to any sexual activity must be clear, knowing, and voluntary. Anything less is equivalent to a “no.” Clear, knowing, and voluntary consent to sexual activity requires that, at the time of the act, and throughout the sexual contact, all parties actively express words or conduct that a reasonable person would conclude demonstrates clear permission regarding willingness to engage in sexual activity and the conditions of such activity. Consent is active; silence or passivity is not consent. Even if words or conduct alone seem to imply consent, sexual activity is nonconsensual when:
    • Force or coercion is threatened or used to procure compliance with the sexual activity.
    • Force is the use of physical violence, physical force, threat, or intimidation to overcome resistance or gain consent to sexual activity.
    • Coercion is unreasonable pressure for sexual activity. When an individual makes it clear through words or actions that the individual does not want to engage in sexual contact, wants to stop, or does not want to go past a certain point of sexual interaction, continued pressure beyond that point may be coercive. Other examples of coercion may include using blackmail or extortion to overcome resistance or gain consent to sexual activity.
  • The person is asleep, unconscious, or physically unable to communicate his or her unwillingness to engage in sexual activity; or 
  • A reasonable person would or should know that the other person lacks the mental capacity at the time of the sexual activity to be able to understand the nature or consequences of the act, whether that incapacity is produced by illness, defect, the influence of alcohol or another substance, or some other cause. When alcohol or drugs are involved, a person is considered incapacitated or unable to give valid consent if the individual cannot fully understand the details of the sexual interaction (i.e., who, what, when, where, why, and how), and/or the individual lacks the capacity to reasonably understand the situation and to make rational, reasonable decisions.
  • Stalking: Stalking is engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to:
    1. Fear for their safety or the safety of others;
    2. Fear for harm to their property or the property of others; or
    3. Suffer substantial emotional distress.
  • Stalking includes, but is not limited to, conduct occurring in person, electronically, or through a third party.

• on Cougs and other violence prevention workshops
  • The Count on Cougs bystander intervention workshop is available to students to learn how to recognize and respond to situations that could be high risk for violence. Students practice safe, realistic intervention skills in a variety of scenarios. Additional violence prevention workshop topics include Healthy Relationships, Supporting Survivors, and Understanding Sexual Assault.
• Additional Workshops
  • Health Education provides additional workshops at request designed to improve the health and wellbeing of WSU students. Workshops include:
    • Life Skills
      • Stress Management
      • Mindfulness
      • Sleep More Sleep Better
      • Time Management
      • Self-Care
    • Mental Health
      • Behind Happy Faces
      • Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
      • Campus Connect
      • Mental Health First Aid
    • Sexual Health
      • STI Workshop
      • Sexuality
    • Substance Abuse
      • Sleep, Alcohol Use, and Academic Impacts
      • Real Risks
      • Party Expectations

Other programs designed to enhance understanding about sexual assault, sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence, and stalking are provided throughout the academic year. These interactive programs are open to all students on the WSU Pullman campus. Students can sign up for programs through Presence and the .

Graduate students at all locations are provided an orientation that includes information on reporting and resources for discrimination, harassment, student misconduct, sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking. also includes information on reporting options and grievance procedures.

91�ԹϺ����� Campus Programs

• Students at 91�ԹϺ����� can access the Consent and Respect, Alcohol Wise, and Hazing and Hosting through the WSU Health Promotions office, as well as others including:
• Count on Cougs:
  • A violence prevention program focused on empowering bystanders to actively reduce gender-based violence, including intimate partner violence, stalking, and sexual assault. Count on Cougs is made available to students throughout the WSU system via Zoom throughout the year. For information on upcoming programs, visit the .
• Mental Health First Aid:
  • An 8-hour training (2 hours pre-work and 6 hours Zoom training) that teaches participants to identify mental health disorder symptoms, how to respond in a crisis, and active listening skills to support many disorders. To attend, visit: .
• Campus Connect:
  • A 2-hour training that teaches participants statistics and facts about college student suicide, how to respond in a suicidal crisis, appropriate referrals, and active listening, communication, and relationship-building skills. To attend, visit: .
• E-Chug:
  • Online confidential survey allows students to receive personalized feedback about the impacts of alcohol and other drug use. It is an open access survey, and available to all students.
• Bystander Intervention
  • Students can attend OSI seminars on bystander intervention to learn how to recognize and respond to situations that could be high risk for violence.
• Other programs designed to enhance understanding about sexual assault, sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence, and stalking are provided throughout the academic year. These interactive programs are open to all students on the 91�ԹϺ����� campus. Students can sign up for programs through