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Promoting Empowerment and Community Engagement
Welcome to the Benedictine University PEACE (Promoting Empowerment and Community Engagement) team page! The PEACE team began on campus after October, 2016 when the University received the Violence Against Women Act Campus Grant from the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women. Starting with a small core team of staff, the team has expanded to include faculty and staff from across the University, as well as students and community partners. The responsibility of the PEACE team is to promote messages of violence prevention in connection with our University values and Hallmarks, advise on policies and procedures that reflect best practices and current legislation regarding incidents of gender-based violence (sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking), and coordinate training and communication amongst Title IX, Law Enforcement, Victim Services, and the larger Benedictine community.
Bernadette Muloski, LSW
The PEACE team is chaired by Bernadette Muloski, the Violence Against Women Act Grant Coordinator. Bernadette is not a confidential resource, but is able to connect students, faculty, and staff with our Counseling Center and outside victim services partners (the YWCA, Family Shelter Service of Metropolitan Family Services, and Arab American Family Services). She also advises the Prevention Peer Educators and leads planning of training and programming on gender-based violence topics including awareness and prevention of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking, bystander intervention, healthy relationships, consent.
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WHY PEACE?
The PEACE team works to bring areas across campus together to promote a culture of violence prevention under the Benedictine University values of:
“Our students can only achieve their academic aspirations if they learn in an intellectual environment that is supportive, accepting, open, and safe. We are called to sustain such a space by our Benedictine Hallmarks of hospitality and community.“
—Steven Burgess, Faculty
Philosophy
“We value each of our student athletes tremendously. Our goal is that we are developing mature and confident men and women who understand that violence has no place in their lives - whether it's on the court or field nor in their interpersonal relationships.”
—Kate Heidkamp
Athletics
“Students participate in community as active members; appreciate the tradition and heritage of Benedictine; and contribute to the common good through purposeful action. Violence prevention is taken very seriously because each member of our community serves a unique purpose in the Benedictine community.”
—Monica Miller
Residence Life
“The Benedictine Hallmark of conversatio calls us to continuingly better ourselves. We recognize the ways we are called to honor the dignity of ourselves and the dignity of others.”
—Carrie Ankeny
Campus Ministry
“A life lived in balance consists of study, work, leisure and prayer. When these components are in balance, eliminated is the need for violence.”
—Hope Keber
Counseling Center
“Leadership nurtures appropriate social and emotional behaviors by providing students with the communication and conflict resolution skills necessary for modern life. Learning these techniques uses an approach that engages, informs, and empowers student to step up and prevent violence.”
—Joan Henehan, former staff
Student Engagement and Leadership Development
Bernadette Muloski, LSW
Violence Against Women Act Grant Coordinator
Neff Center, Room 110
(630) 829-1326
bmuloski@ben.edu
Peter A. Huff, Ph.D.
Chief Mission Officer
Professor of Theology
Neff Center
(630) 829-6664
phuff@ben.edu
Tammy Sarver, Ph.D.
Title IX Coordinator
Professor, Political Science
Scholl Hall, Room 228L
(630) 829-6473
tsarver@ben.edu