Our Commitment to a Community Free from Hazing
ETSU is committed to providing a community that is free from hazing. Hazing represents a violation of the institutional disciplinary policy and state law TCA 49-7-123 (a) (1) and will not be tolerated.
ETSU employees who are mandated reporters as defined by the Clery act are required to report information regarding hazing. Other community members, including students, are encouraged to report hazing so that it can be investigated and stopped.
Hazing can be reported as a potential violation of the institutional disciplinary policy to the Dean of Students office by completing an online incident report or emailing deanofstudents@etsu.edu
Hazing can be reported as a potential crime to ETSU Police by calling 423-439-4480.
Hazing can be reported to both the Dean of Students office and to ETSU Police.
Reports of hazing will be investigated and adjudicated based on processes defined, respectively, in the institutional disciplinary policy and state law.
Should students or student organizations be found responsible for hazing, they can face sanctioning up to and including suspension and expulsion. A violation of law could include fines and incarceration.
Information and data regarding hazing violations will be published in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Reportfor the 2026 report and thereafter, and which is available on the ETSU Police webpage. The Campus Hazing Transparency Report is published here and will be updated annually.
Resources and Support
If you know or suspect you have experienced hazing, please report it using the options outlined above. Hazing can impact mental and physical well-being. ETSU provides confidential counseling support at no cost to students. More information can be found at the ETSU Counseling Center webpage. Please be aware that counselors are not mandated reporters. Separate outreach to report will need to occur in order for a review of the complaint to proceed.
Hazing Prevention Training
ETSU has partnered with StopHazing.Org to provide online hazing prevention training to students and employees. StopHazing is the leader in hazing prevention research and is dedicated to building research-based educational tools, such as this course, to prevent hazing and help students build healthy groups that foster belonging and amplify well-being.
To log in and complete the course, enter your first name, last name, and ETSU email
address.
If you need to step away from the course midway through, you can re-enter the course
where
you left off using the same link above.
Course Description:
The course will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. There are knowledge check
questions throughout the course and a 10-question quiz at the end, followed by an
evaluation
survey.
To Successfully Complete the Course:
● You must pass the quiz with a 80% or better.
● You must click/scroll all the way through to the ‘I commit’ button at the end to
access the
final evaluation.
● Click “exit course” and check your completion status to ensure it has been recorded.
If it
says “incomplete” or “unknown” reenter the course and ensure you click all the way
through.
The course link landing page will record your completion and satisfaction
(passed/failed/unknown) status for the course. If you want to double check your status,
you can
relaunch the course, exit, and view the landing page when it reloads - it will tell
you your results.
To begin the training, click here.