Evaluation of Grants to Combat Violence Against Women on Campus

摘要

At the request of NIJ, ILJ staff made only one trip to each of the 38 sites to conduct interviews and collect data on project activities. Thus the process evaluation depended on a snapshot view of the campuses at the time of the site visit. Nevertheless, a considerable amount of information was gleaned from the visits because of the excellent cooperation that ILJ staff received from campus personnel involved in the grant projects. Each visit typically lasted two to three days during which as many as a dozen interviews might take place. Interviewees could include the project director, on-campus advocate, campus law enforcement, judicial affairs, education coordinator, womens center, community partners, dean of students, representatives from student organizations, and project evaluator. ILJ staff prepared a site report, usually 20-25 pages in length that represented a process evaluation report for a particular grantee and was provided to each project director for review. In addition, two databases were created containing information collected at each site. The first, the Site Comparison Database, included basic information about each of the grantees and was designed to test a series ofhypotheses across the 38 sites. The second database collected the responses of grant project staff at each site to a Partnership Survey.