The Bystander Interventions Project, within the Prevention Working Group of the Action Collaborative, will develop a perspective paper to serve as a reference for institutions to use when exploring, developing, and implementing bystander intervention programs for preventing sexual harassment. Bystander intervention programs have the potential for creating change in institutional climate by adequately preparing and equipping individuals who may witness sexual harassment (Banyard et al., 2015; Holland et al., 2016), however much of the work using bystander intervention in higher education has focused on the undergraduate population and more on cases of sexual assault. As a result this paper will focus on applying the bystander intervention approach to faculty, staff (including post doctoral trainees), and graduate students, and specifically on sexually harassing behaviors more frequently found in higher education workplaces (i.e. gender harassment), and other bias and discriminating behaviors. This paper will also explore the value of bystander intervention approach for affecting organizational climate and culture. This paper will address the following questions:

1. How can the principles of bystander intervention be used for faculty, staff, and graduate students?

2. What are examples of programs that are bystander intervention that focus on faculty, staff, and graduate students, and what makes them suited to assisting faculty and staff, and how do they take into account the strong power differentials between individuals in these workplaces?

3. What are factors that may make these programs effective?

This paper will provide faculty, staff, advocates, and those in higher education who implement prevention programs with resources, information, and important questions to consider when developing, implementing, adapting, or improving bystander intervention efforts for faculty, staff, and graduate students.