<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1ID3uM_1GzEWoYb00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1ID3uM_1GzEWoYb00" width="400" height="400" ></figure>Davidson College recently hired Alydia Monahan to fill the college’s health educator role — a position typically held at the college but left vacant since the previous Health Educator, Clara Hare-Grogg, left in July 2026.Monahan’s position consists of facilitating conversations around sexual misconduct, sex education and providing information on health and well-being topics.“[The] main part of my job is being a listening person for someone who’s gone through something traumatic,” Monahan said. “Students can come and talk to me and I will listen and support them and I can help connect them to campus resources [or] local resources if necessary and even help them talk through what next steps might look like, providing an additional level of support.”Hired five weeks ago, Monohan has wasted no time making her presence known on campus.On Nov. 1, the Center for Student Health and Well-Being, in collaboration with SASV and the Chaplain’s office, hosted an event to honor survivors of sexual violence titled Take Back the Night. At the annual event, speakers from the organization discussed topics related to sexual violence, dating violence, domestic violence and rape culture.Maya Halciug ’29 attended the follow-up meeting after the #StopSexualViolence movement on campus hosted by SASV. She felt motivated by the recent campus action.“I know just as much as anybody that we’re very busy people, and it’s like you think that you know everything, but you don’t and that [SASV event] is also just as heavy, in my opinion,” Halciug said. “It is heavy and it does have hard conversations. … It is important to have these difficult conversations. I feel like if it makes you uncomfortable, then you’re the problem.”Aside from educational presentations on sexual misconduct, Monahan has been working closely with the administration and student organizations.Students have raised several concerns about the current handbook and its accessibility. “I think the website is very confusing, and that’s something that I think the rally did a really good job of highlighting that we need to be able to show [and] streamline what that process is like for victims as they go through the reporting process,” said a Davidson student who wishes to remain anonymous and is one of the 103 reporters of sexual violence at Davidson over the past three years.The 103 reports of sexual violence recorded at Davidson underscore a growing demand among students for institutional transparency. Nationally, students, campus safety experts and advocacy organizations emphasize that reporting numbers only tell part of the story.“I feel like in my four years, I don’t even know if I could count the number of times I’ve heard about assaults on campus. I don’t know how many of those have escalated. I know of a handful of people who have reported, both men and women and non-binary people, who have all gone through that process,” said the same anonymous student. “And yeah, in my four years, I probably know 10 or 12 people that have at least told me that they’ve reported.”Student advocates like SASV and other organizations have voiced their concerns directly with the administration, with Monahan listening to these conversations and putting these ideas into fruition.“We noticed that our website is unclear about what to do so [we’re] working on rebuilding the website to make it clearer,” said Monahan. “Another potential solution is continuing education. Sounds like freshmen get all this information at the beginning of the year, but we haven’t built out a system for them to practice it again when they come back the following year and so hopefully we will be able to work toward implementing education to remind students about consent, Title IX and safer practices around substance use.”As the administration has begun tackling these difficult conversations, Monahan’s presence marks a pivotal step towards a safer, more accountable Davidson community.“Sometimes individuals make bad decisions and sometimes individuals do not know how to safely intervene as a bystander. We want to reduce and end that by continuing the education, providing Green Dot, and keeping the conversation going about boundaries, safer sex and consent,” said Monahan. “Maybe we have to rethink how we’re educating people on consent because sometimes the way we define it sounds like legal jargon which is not always relatable to the average college student. I will be researching how to present and communicate consent in a more relatable way.”As the conversation continues, Monahan hopes to give students the opportunity to engage with these difficult topics at a variety of levels.“I think everyone should get the same education surrounding sexual misconduct,” said the same anonymous student. “It’s just like a matter of how and when you’re going to do this.”</div></body>

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Davidson College recently hired Alydia Monahan to fill the college’s health educator role — a position typically held at the college but left vacant since the previous Health Educator, Clara Hare-Grogg, left in July 2026. Monahan’s position consists of facilitating conversations around sexual misconduct, sex education and providing...

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