{"id":664,"date":"2025-09-05T10:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/student-handbook\/college-for-creative-studies-hazing\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:29:31","slug":"college-for-creative-studies-hazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/student-handbook\/college-for-creative-studies-hazing\/","title":{"rendered":"College for Creative Studies Hazing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I. PURPOSE<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

 The Stop Campus Hazing Act (SCHA) amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require all colleges and universities to disclose hazing incidents in their Annual Security Reports (ASR). The SCHA mandates that colleges define hazing, compile statistics on reported cases, and establish transparent policies for reporting and prevention. The purpose of this policy is to establish CCS\u2019s Anti-Hazing Policy, identify how CCS will implement this policy, and identify resources for reporting violations of this policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

II. POLICY STATEMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pursuant to the Stop Campus Hazing Act (SCHA) and Michigan\u2019s Anti-Hazing Law, CCS does not tolerate hazing. Organizations or individuals found responsible for hazing under this policy, whether occurring on or off campus, may be subject to disciplinary action and or civil or criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

III. STATE OF MICHIGAN LAW ON HAZING<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In addition to CCS\u2019s Anti-Hazing Policy, the State of Michigan has criminalized certain types of hazing at educational institutions, including colleges and universities, under \u201cGarrett\u2019s Law,\u201d MC750.411t<\/a>.
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Under Garrett\u2019s Law, hazing includes an intentional, knowing, or reckless disregard act by a person acting alone or acting with others that is directed against an individual and that person knew or should have known endangers the physical health or safety of the individual, and that is done for the purpose of pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, participating in, holding office in, or maintaining membership in any organization.  It is not a defense to a prosecution under Garrett\u2019s Law that the individual against whom the hazing was directed, consented or acquiesced in the hazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IV. DEFINITIONS<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hazing \u2013 <\/strong>any intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a person, whether individually or in concert with other persons, regardless of the student\u2019s willingness to participate, that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n