Working Together to End Sexual Violence on College Campuses in Our State
The South Carolina Institute on the Prevention of Sexual Violence on College Campuses (SCIP) works with colleges and universities across South Carolina to reduce sexual violence and strengthen campus safety. Through education, training, grant opportunities, resources, and strategic partnerships, SCIP helps institutions build comprehensive prevention strategies that protect and support students.
Our mission is to lower the incidence of sexual violence while equipping campuses with best-practice protocols and survivor-centered services. SCIP supports institutions in moving beyond compliance toward sustainable, evidence-based prevention efforts that create safer, healthier campus communities.
Through prevention grants, faculty research funding, Title IX professional development, Greek student leadership institutes, and campus safety conferences, SCIP provides the knowledge, support, and funding campuses need to make lasting change.
Housed at Lander University and supported through state funding, SCIP serves as a statewide leader in advancing sexual violence prevention across higher education.
Carrying out the mission of SCIP:
Advocacy & Support
Providing best practice protocols and services for institutions in their support of survivors of sexual violence.
Leadership & Education
Emphasizing the need for prevention, education, and awareness of sexual violence.
Partnerships & Collaboration
Making the work of Title IX more collaborative for institutions.
SC Sexual Violence Prevention Grant
Proudly awarded over $100K in funding to South Carolina Colleges since 2024.
Consent Matters
“True consent requires the capacity to read and hear the verbal and nonverbal cues of your partner, but it also presumes that both partners enter a sexual situation with the capacity to value and regard each other as people worthy of the care, concern, and attention that consent requires. Consent goes beyond individual situations of sexual intimacy to a culture where care toward and the valuing of one’s partners are givens, where an understanding that consent has something to do with ethics is a given, too. But to get to this place requires addressing the systemic nature of sexual violence on campus and in our communities—and doing that requires a gargantuan effort by all of us, not just a few of us. It means a university must go above and beyond the legal minimum required that allows it to check a box for the government that says, yes, we taught about consent.”
-Donna Freitas
