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Hazing Prevention Course Compliance for Leadership

Information for unit heads, administrators, and managers ensuring compliance with the “Hazing Prevention: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility” employee course requirement. 

New Employee Course Completion Expectations

  • New employees must complete the course within 30 days of their start date. 
  • New employees are notified of their obligation to complete the course during their onboarding with Human Resources.

Units, departments, and human resources professionals should include information about completing the hazing prevention course in their onboarding and orientation materials. 

Existing Employee Course Completion Expectations

  • Existing employees should complete the hazing prevention course within 45 days of their unit assignment date during each fiscal year. 
  • Units are responsible for communicating the expectation, timeline, reminders, and compliance to their employees, including student workers.

A reminder email will be sent to unit heads and their designees two weeks before the units’ assigned dates. 

Unit Head Oversight

Unit heads should ensure that employees comply with the hazing prevention course requirement. Employees include all faculty, other academic personnel, and staff. Units are not responsible for (non-employee) student compliance with the course.  

Unit heads and supervisors should:

  • In appointment letters and onboarding material, communicate the hazing prevention course requirements to new employees. 
  • Approve the use of work time for employees to complete the hazing prevention course. 
  • Remind employees of the expectations, requirements, and timeframe for compliance via internal communication. 
  • Address non-compliance through appropriate mechanisms based on employee role. 

Tools for Employee Management

The Hazing Prevention and Response Team has developed multiple resources to assist leadership with communication and compliance of the training.

The resource guides provides leadership with all the crucial information of the training, including FAQ’s, additional resources, and information to assist in monitoring employee completion.

Resource Guide

The unit assignment schedule reflects the dates chosen by units to launch the training to their employees. Employees have 45 days from the date to complete the training.

Unit Assignment Schedule

The unit head checklist helps leaders organize and develop a plan to monitor compliance and communicate with employees about the training.

Unit Head Checklist

A communication template has been developed to assist units and leadership with their initial communication to employees about the training and requirements. The template is editable to fit the language and terminology used by each unit.

Communication Template

The Hazing Prevention and Response Team will offer office hours throughout the year to provide leadership opportunities to seek assistance or ask questions. Leadership can email nohazing@uw.edu to receive a more personalized consultation. To access the office hours date and Zoom link, click the button below.

Office Hours Schedule

Based on feedback from the previous year, the Hazing Prevention and Response Team have developed flexible training options for units and departments. To learn more, click the button below.

Flexible Training Options

Unit Head FAQs

Unit heads should initially implement follow-up communications and activities to address employee non-compliance. If follow-up communications are not successful, a unit head or designee may:

  • Implement corrective action per the employee’s classification or job title
  • Document the non-compliance in performance or promotional reviews
  • Implement other actions or outcomes such that the employee:
    • May become ineligible for promotion and/or re-appointment
    • May become ineligible to supervise or advise students
    • May become ineligible to manage full or part-time employees
    • May become ineligible for committee membership, leadership roles, and/or travel funds

Unit heads and their designees can access employee course completion records via the Hazing Prevention Course Completion dashboard in the BI Portal. For student employees, please click here. 

The dashboard includes records of both completed and uncompleted tasks for employees in every unit. Unit heads or designees can export, organize, and sort the records.

Access to dashboards available through the BI Portal requires you to work at a UW location and connect to the UW network or for off-campus access. You need to connect to UW’s network via a VPN (virtual private network). Dashboard access link: Hazing Prevention Course Completion dashboard

If you are a unit designee without access to the employee course completion dashboard, your unit head must send an email authorizing your access to nohazing@uw.edu

If you are a unit head without access, please email nohazing@uw.edu.

Usage information is provided on the landing page before entering the Hazing Prevention Employee Course Completion dashboard. Select the menu titles (Overview, Interpretation, Filter, Technical Information, Definitions) on the left side of the screen to open the tabs for additional information.

Based on the HR hierarchy, employees are affiliated through their primary unit. If an employee is not listed in your report, you may not be required to monitor their course compliance. If you need to review an employee’s record that needs to be listed in your unit report, try searching for them by their UW NetID.

Due to the way the HR hierarchy functions, unit heads, such as deans and associate vice presidents, will not be included in unit reports. You can find a unit head’s completion record by searching for them by their UW NetID.

Completion records are updated nightly, so it may take up to 24 hours after an employee completes the course for the updated information to be reflected in this dashboard. If it has been more than 24 hours since the employee completed the course, you can email nohazing@uw.edu with your question about the specific employee’s course completion record.

Employees can visit the Hazing Prevention employee course page to learn more about the course and their completion requirements.

Student employees can visit the Hazing Prevention student course page to learn more about the course.

Please submit any feedback or questions about the course to nohazing@uw.edu.