Gender based violence is experienced at higher rates on college campuses than in other communities. One in five women experience acquaintance rape during their academic career and less than 5% of college women who have experienced sexual assault report their victimization (Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000). Recent federal guidance is meant to increase campus capacity to respond to this gender-based violence at colleges and universities, but it is unclear if the approach released by the recent Campus SaVE Act will meet this goal. New federal legislation has sparked strong guidance from the Office of Civil Rights and the Department of Education. Part of this guidance has loosely clarified the expectation of mandatory reporters (also known as Responsible Employees) on college campuses. Guidance from ATIXA (Association of Title IX Administrators) suggests that all university employees be mandatory reporters. However, this designation is still left to the discretion of each institution. In other words, there is currently no standard definition of what constitutes a "mandatory reporter". Expecting many university employees to be mandatory reporters is a shift for many institutions and will position many faculty and staff who have felt a certain level of confidentiality privilege with students to a different role. Having a better understanding of how institutions are developing and implementing new policies related to the federal guidance and the impact that policy development/implementation has on their gender-based violence prevention and response programs, is critical to the ultimate success of these efforts. The consistent prevalence of the public health epidemic of gender-based violence on college campuses as well as consistently low rates of reporting these incidents indicate the need for responsive prevention and response policies and practices at institutions of higher education. Currently, the variance in interpretation and policy development resulting from the federal guidance and impact on existing prevention and response efforts is unknown. Through a case study feminist policy analysis approach, this study addresses the following questions: 1) How have campus administrators interpreted the Campus SaVE legislation and guidance regarding mandatory reporting; 2) What frameworks have they used to develop campus policy and practices in response to Campus SaVE and mandatory reporting; and 3) What are successful elements of policy development and implementation with respect to the Campus SaVE guidance regarding mandated reporting. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]