A national organization that helps to govern sorority life on college campuses released recommendations made by a task force last month in an effort started last year to raise awareness and prevent sexual assaults.

The National Panhellenic Conference, which includes all of the social sororities with chapters on GW’s campus, highlighted ways that sororities can better their education on reporting sexual assault, like understanding campus resources and raising awareness for sorority members. The conference also announced the next steps of a national task force started last year that focuses on sexual assault on college campuses.

The report identifies seven areas for lower-level sorority governing organizations to hone in on when educating members. The seven topics tackle different aspects of sexual assault, like encouraging awareness, campus resources, resources within each sorority, leadership, collaboration with sexual assault awareness groups and advocacy within each sorority against sexual assault.

The recommendations “are the result of many hours of thoughtful and deliberate conversations, inquiries and surveysfocused onadvocacyfor our members as well asall women on college campuseswith regard to student safety and sexual assault,” the report said.

The Student Safety and Sexual Assault Awareness Task Force will focus on many of those same seven topics and plans to expand as the year continues, the report said.

Greek life leaders said in February that they would make sexual assault a priority as part of the Greek Life Task Force. About one-third of students on campus are involved in Greek life.