James R. Vanderwoerd
James Vanderwoerd is a Professor of Social Work at Redeemer University College, in Ancaster, Ontario.
Bio last updated April 30th, 2018.
Articles by James R. Vanderwoerd
Campus Violence And Moral Community
By James R. Vanderwoerd
September 19, 2017
While everyone should be concerned by sexual violence at North American universities, writes Professor James R. Vanderwoerd, his newly published research indicates the best answer to toxic masculinity is cultivation of moral communities on campus.
Decades of research on campus sexual violence show that 21 per cent to 31 per cent of women students experience some form of unwanted sexual contact within the past year My research on campus sexual violence, published last month in the Canadian Journal of Higher Education, suggests that independent Christian colleges may provide greater safety from sexual violence than their public counterparts
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The Culture of Consent on Campus
James R. Vanderwoerd
June 1, 2016
Popular culture teaches us there’s a free market for sex in higher education, but Redeemer University College Professor James R. Vanderwoerd discovers that many who agree to no-strings-attached hookups later consider them a form of abuse
When Mary Koss and her colleagues developed a revolutionary new tool for measuring unwanted sexual experiences (the Sexual Experiences Survey) – which has now been used for decades, with thousands of students in hundreds of colleges and universities – they were able to provide much more accurate (an...