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This will be a pilot program that engages male college students in gender equality initiatives at DU. This will coincide with the Masculinities Project that takes place every quarter on campus. The six month workshop invites men to “reflect and explore their understandings of masculinity” in order to promote gender equality at an interpersonal level (DU Healthy Masculinities, 2024). While this approach provides youth “the knowledge and skills to be an agent of change on campus,” the program could also extend its framework beyond a collegiate context. Doing so provides the space -both locally and globally-to push for gender justice more broadly. (DU Healthy Masculinities 2024). That being said, a cross-network between MenEngage and the Healthy Masculinities Project will be established at the University of Denver. MenEngage Alliance is a transnational organization that is also “interested in understanding how patriarchal masculinities maintain and deepen injustices” and strives “…to identify ways of challenging and transforming them” (MenEngage, 2024). As a means of shifting these harmful social norms, individual networks collaborate with men and boys to initiate change from within and outside of their communities. Forming a MenEngage Chapter at DU can both reinforce and add nuance to the Project’s existing goals- and vice versa.
