Authored by Jason Thompson, Fahrenheit Creative Group    According to data from EducationData.org, more than four out of ten college students are 19 or younger. Since more than 40 percent of Americans believe college is an opportunity for students to grow personally and intellectually, we must seriously examine the role and responsibility of colleges to encourage and support personal growth among the students it serves. There is no better time to do that than during Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month.   Most of the focus during the month centers on high school students, and rightly so. About one out of ten adolescents has experienced physical violence from an intimate partner. High schools are a great place to start when addressing dating violence with teens. But we can’t stop there.   Nearly half of young women between the ages of 18 and 24 are enrolled in college or graduate school, while more than a third of young men of the same age are enrolled in postsecondary programs at colleges or universities. Between 2000 and 2017, there was an almost 76 percent increase in the number of 18-24 year old students enrolled in degree-granting postsecondary institutions.   In short, there are … Continue reading Preventing Dating Violence on Campus