Jim Hofher, head football coach at Cornell from 1990 to January 1998, was honored "for his outstanding contributions in the social development of college athletes" by the Cornell Advocates for Rape Education (CARE) at the NCAA Champs Life Skills national conference in Atlanta in February.
"Without Jim's full support and enthusiasm for the sexual assault prevention education for college athletes, which has grown into a published manual and is now part of a mandatory one-credit required course for all Cornell varsity athletes, this program never would have been launched," said Andrea Parrot, Cornell associate professor of policy analysis and management and a founder of CARE.
Parrot said Hofher's support to allow the pilot sexual assault prevention education program to be presented to Cornell football players in 1990 was both unusual and pivotal to the success of the program and the eventual publication of the manual Rape 101: Sexual Assault Prevention for College Athletes, by Parrot, Cornell health educator Nina Cummings and former graduate student Timothy Marchell.
Hohfer is now on the football coaching staff at the University of North Carolina.
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