Cayuga’s Watchers is a student-led 501(c)(3) independent organization, conceived to mitigate the harms associated with high-risk drinking and promote student safety at Cornell University.
We aim to become an established national model for combating high-risk drinking by equipping students with the knowledge and skills to promote peer social responsibility.
Cayuga's Watchers provides straightforward and honest, research-backed bystander intervention education. Our training is created and facilitated for students, by students, completely free of charge.
Cayuga's Watchers is about friends looking out for friends. It's about progressing our social norms to move past the culture of outright irresponsible and dangerous drinking habits. We help Cornell students build the skills to recognize when something is truly *off* and then confidently intervene to change the course of the night.
We believe that our student-to-student training is the very best bystander training program available. Our sessions are engaging, interactive, and honest. We are independent and student-operated, so our trainers keep it real!
If you're interested in promoting positive social norms and teaching others how to be effective, active bystanders, then we have a job for you!
Responsibilities include revising training materials/curriculum, delivering training to large groups of students (in-person and virtually), observing and evaluating fellow trainers, recruiting new trainers, promoting CW's activities across campus, and periodically meeting with CW's Board of Directors. An awesome candidate is a confident speaker who can adapt to each audience, give/accept constructive feedback, and represent CW's mission in spaces across campus.
If that sounds like you, click here to apply now.
The greatest challenge facing Cayuga’s Watchers is continued funding. Unlike other collegiate bystander intervention programs, Cayuga’s Watchers operates independently of Cornell University as an entirely separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Cayuga’s Watchers relies on the generosity of other nonprofits and charitable organizations, as well as individual contributors to pay our student employees while remaining entirely free of charge to student organizations.
Will you consider donating to help us continue to grow and improve? Feel free to contact the Chairman of our Board of Directors, John Mueller or our Treasurer and Development Committee Chair, Matt Rubins with any questions about CW's current operations, future plans, or anything else you'd like to know.
John Mueller
Adam Gitlin
Eric Silverberg
Matt Rubins
Susan Collins
Bill Sonnenstuhl
Ben Bacharach
Drew LordFor all other requests, please reach out to John Mueller.
