Oklahoma State University

Faculty Member, School of Educational Studies

Associate Professor; Anderson, Farris and Halligan Professor, and Program Coordinator, College Student Development Master's Degree Program

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John D. Foubert, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of College Student Development, Anderson, Farris, and Halligan Professor of Educational Studies, and Program Coordinator of the College Student Development Master’s Degree Program at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Foubert teaches courses in college student development theory, advanced student development theory, group and cultural interventions, introduction to student affairs administration, master’s theses, and supervision of internship experiences.  Dr. Foubert is the author of eight books including: The Men’s and Women’s Programs: Ending Rape through Peer Education and Lessons Learned: How to avoid the biggest mistakes made by college resident assistants. He is also widely published in scholarly journals such as the Journal of American College Health, the Journal of College Student Development, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Sex Roles, the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Violence Against Women.

Dr. Foubert conducts research in several areas with the goal of bridging research and practice to promote social change.  He is best known for his research in the area of sexual assault prevention.  He also conducts research on college student development (psychosocial, moral, and spiritual) and on the connections between pornography use and violence against women.

In 1998 Dr. Foubert founded the national non-profit organization One in Four. While serving as its President for 10 years, he led its growth to have 30 campus-based chapters and began a nationwide “RV Tour” with four recent college graduates who present the most effective rape prevention program ever evaluated in the research literature.

From 2005-2007 he served as the principal investigator for a $275,000 U.S. Department of Education grant which successfully completed the most comprehensive evaluation study of a rape prevention program ever attempted.  This grant project helped produce the only program in history ever shown to lead to a decline in sexual assault among high risk men who saw a program relative to a control group.

Dr. Foubert’s work has been featured in the Washington Post, numerous television news programs, and he has been a featured guest on the National Public Radio program, Talk of the Nation.  He is a regular keynote speaker and consultant to Universities, the military and state health departments. Dr. Foubert has testified before Congress about how to prevent rape in the military, worked for three years to design the rape prevention curriculum at the U.S. Naval Academy, and is currently is working with the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force in Europe to implement rape prevention programming in Germany.  Early in his career he was identified by ACPA as an emerging scholar, was the runner up for the NASPA dissertation of the year award, and in 2007 he won the William and Mary President’s Award for Service to the Community.  He recently won the Senior Professional Annuit Coeptis Award from the American College Personnel Association for contributions to Administration, Teaching, Research, Service, and the Student Affairs Profession.

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