National Hazing Prevention Week 2026

Together we can prevent hazing.

National Hazing Prevention Week, which runs this year from September 21^st to the 25^th, is an important time to learn more about the harms of hazing.

Whether you’re a part of a team, club, or organization, there are healthier and more positive ways to build a sense of belonging than through hazing.

By promoting education, sharing resources, and treating others with respect, we can build a safer and more inclusive community. Hazing has no place at the University of Arizona. It is a violation of university policy, state law, and is contrary to our values of inclusion and compassion. The University of Arizona Hazing Hotline provides a telephone line for anyone to report a suspected or recent hazing incident (520) 626-HAZE (4293). 

For more information, please visit the Hazing Prevention Coalition website at https://preventhazing.arizona.edu/. If you want to learn more about how you can prevent hazing and promote belonging in healthy and positive ways, the university offers Hazing Prevention and Awareness Training for Staff and Faculty, as well as for students, linked below.

Together we can prevent hazing and build a stronger community!

What is Hazing?

Hazing is defined as, "Any intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a person (whether individually or in concert with other persons) against another person or persons regardless of the willingness of such other person or persons to participate that:

• Is committed in the course of an initiation into, an affiliation with, or the maintenance of membership in, a student organization; and
• Causes or creates a risk, above the reasonable risk encountered in the course of participation in the institution of higher education or the organization (such as the physical preparation necessary for participation in an athletic team), of physical or psychological injury including-Whipping, beating, striking, electronic shocking, placing of a harmful substance on someone's body or similar activity;
• Causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, extreme calisthenics, or other similar activity;
• Causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to consume food, liquid, alcohol, drugs, or other substances;
• Causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to perform sexual acts;
  Any activity that places another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words or conduct;
• Any activity against another person that includes a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law; and

• Any activity that induces, causes, or requires another person to perform a duty or task that involves a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law. 

  
  A student organization is defined as, "An organization at an institution of higher education (such as a club, society, association, varsity or junior varsity athletic team, club sports team, fraternity, sorority, band, or student government) in which two or more of the members are students enrolled at the institution of higher education, whether or not the organization is established or recognized by the institution."