• The recent Stanford sexual assault case is just one of tens of thousands of such assaults that happen every year on American college campuses, which raises the question: What can men and women do to stop rape at universities? (livescience.com)
  • The Campus Sexual Assault Grant Program, announced August 5 by First Lady Sue Snyder and Michigan State Police Director Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue, will help colleges and universities fund new and innovative sexual assault prevention initiatives. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • All public and non-public universities and colleges in Michigan where students attend classes on campus are eligible to apply. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • A report from the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault says universities are not providing all the resources they can to protect students from sexual violence. (wusf.org)
  • One way to address sexual violence is through the adaptation and implementation of a sexual assault policy by colleges and universities. (ed.gov)
  • The purpose of this study is to review sexual misconduct and assault policies of ten public universities as well as federal policies in the US. (ed.gov)
  • Methods: The data included relevant legislation, and the university sexual assault and/or misconduct policies from ten selected public universities within the United States in Fall 2014. (ed.gov)
  • Three of the universities do not have university policies that explicitly address sexual misconduct as assault. (ed.gov)
  • Conclusions: Further efforts in policy revisions need to be made so that more universities will not only implement sexual assault policies, but also implement more comprehensive policies. (ed.gov)
  • Colleges and universities throughout Pennsylvania are among the more than 2,300 schools currently included in the college version of "Reach Out. (pcar.org)
  • What's really frightening is not that the assaults happen - unfortunately, rape on college campuses is a very real and well-publicized problem - but the fact that the schools seem to completely cover them up, circling the wagons to protect the reputations of the universities while creating an environment of victim-shaming and blaming. (filmfracture.com)
  • Universities in Maryland could be forced to adopt more courtroom-style proceedings to adjudicate sexual assault complaints on campus as last week's proposed federal Title IX guidelines intersect with a recent Maryland law. (thedailyrecord.com)
  • Universities in Maryland must develop sexual assault disciplinary provisions that allow students access to an attorney, set parameters for sexual assault proceedings and restrict the use of mediation in resolving these disputes, under legislation passed by the Maryland General Assembly. (thedailyrecord.com)
  • What happens on college campuses after a sexual assault has been reported has become increasingly scrutinized beyond the universities' boundaries. (thedailyrecord.com)
  • Before the recent revelations about sexual assault in Hollywood and other industries, the spotlight was on the nation's colleges and universities: Over the past several years, those institutions have been challenged by lawmakers and a growing group of emboldened victims to improve their response to sexual crimes on campus. (rand.org)
  • With momentum from the #MeToo movement, colleges and universities have an opportunity to adopt meaningful changes, beginning with the creation of a system for tracking the prevalence of sexual assaults on campuses nationwide. (rand.org)
  • At colleges and universities, a good starting point would be to establish a confidential survey that could help students and administrators learn about what's happening on campus. (rand.org)
  • By banding together, American colleges and universities can identify campuses with lower than expected sexual assault rates and learn from them. (rand.org)
  • to 29% The 2015 Association of American Universities (AAU) Campus Survey on Sexual Assault, one of the largest studies ever of college sexual violence, drew responses from Campus Climate Surveys of 150,000 students across 27 schools, including most of the Ivy League schools. (wikipedia.org)
  • Several universities conducted independent sexual assault studies rather than participating in the AAU surveys. (wikipedia.org)
  • And so, this return to campus is a really critical time to be reminding students about the college environment and experience that universities are hoping to create. (insidehighered.com)
  • Over the past decade, colleges and universities have built massive sexual misconduct bureaucracies to police and discipline all manner of sexual behavior-including accidental touchings, drunken couplings, and forcible rape. (iwf.org)
  • For too long, American colleges and universities showed little interest in supporting victims of sexual assault or in disciplining student offenders, leaving the problem almost entirely to law enforcement. (iwf.org)
  • Opposition to allegations of sexual assault claims are often argued on the basis of definition with universities claiming situations are "he said she said" or "jealous/slighted women" in order to diminish severity of the allegations. (vincenttriola.com)
  • Using this redefining of sexual assault has allowed colleges and universities to ignore the problem or downplay the seriousness thereby leaving school reputations untarnished along with the accused person who are often allowed to return after a semester or graduate before expulsion. (vincenttriola.com)
  • The inaction of universities stems mainly from misogynistic culture so entrenched that it creates a fertile ground for rape to grow, beginning first with the fact that colleges require rapes be reported through campus security rather than police. (vincenttriola.com)
  • The film traffics in alarmist statistics and terrifying assertions but fails to acknowledge both the recent changes in the way the government and universities approach sexual assault charges and the critiques that those changes go too far. (vincenttriola.com)
  • Colleges and Universities across the US are beginning to implement rape prevention programs that are directed at men and women separately" (Crawford, 2018, p. 410). (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • The Clery Act and Title IX are two important laws that have been established my many universities/colleges nationwide, which attempt to lower the rates the and increase awareness of sexual assault. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • A report from the Association of American Universities, surveying 27 institutions of higher education, rates of sexual assault and misconduct on college campuses are highest among undergraduate females and those identifying as transgender, gender-queer, and non-conforming. (whitelawpllc.com)
  • It's clear from the many complaints filed, the number of schools under federal investigations and the media coverage that universities have too often been slow or ineffective in responding to sexual assault and harassment. (thenation.com)
  • Howle's office reviewed campus crime data from six colleges and universities in its audit. (pressdemocrat.com)
  • Under DeVos' proposal, colleges and universities would face less liability when they investigate reports of sexual misconduct and assault. (npr.org)
  • Whether it's the violence of the assault, the reliance on public pressure and intimidation to keep victims silent, or the power of universities to manage their reputations - well-funded and well-connected institutions have relied on a lopsided justice system rife with insanely short statutes of limitations and a culture of shame to protect their interests and silence those who dare share speak out and share their story. (bishop-accountability.org)
  • Historically, universities and colleges have come up short when it comes to handling sexual assaults on their campuses. (bishop-accountability.org)
  • A newly released study by the Association of American Universities (AAU), consisting of data from over 180,000 college students across the United States, has revealed that 1 in 4 undergraduate women from the thirty-three universities surveyed has experienced sexual assault while they were students. (redbanklegal.com)
  • Just four days after Queen's approved its sexual assault policy, the Ontario government passed new sexual violence legislation mandating that all Ontario college and universities create separate sexual assault policies. (queensjournal.ca)
  • Colleges and universities need to get up to speed with the progress made by the Catholic Church in combating sexual assault. (catholicleague.org)
  • Now the Education Department has released the names of 55 colleges and universities where a complaint has been registered. (catholicleague.org)
  • To be sure, it calls for institutions of higher education to take complaints of sexual harassment and assault seriously-immediate action is mandated, including an investigation-but it does not require colleges and universities to notify law enforcement. (catholicleague.org)
  • In other words, not only are colleges and universities not required to call the cops when they get a credible accusation, they are allowed to silence the accusers. (catholicleague.org)
  • In the United States, one in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college, yet more than 90 percent of these survivors do not report the assault. (pcar.org)
  • It has been stated in the documentary, "more than 16% of college women are sexually assaulted while in college" (Dick, 2015). (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • C app tivation was created by a small group of former college students who realized the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses and decided to use technology to help reduce the incidence rate and to provide support to survivors. (pcar.org)
  • emergency department presentation with a gunshot wound (GSW), stab wound, or assault between March 2019 and February 2021. (bvsalud.org)
  • Without support and resources, victims of sexual assault would be helpless. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • SINGH: In proposing a change to Title IX that would allow a defendant, for example, to cross-examine his or her accuser, we know that concerns have often been raised that this could retraumatize victims of sexual assault. (npr.org)
  • SINGH: Does that not, still, retraumatize victims of sexual assault? (npr.org)
  • Such a survey would enable institutions to better understand the unique risks faced by their students, the barriers to reporting and seeking help, and the underlying culture that affirms or rejects sexual harassment and assault. (rand.org)
  • The pandemic didn't eradicate the issue of sexual harassment and assault," Palumbo said. (insidehighered.com)
  • narrows the definition of sexual harassment , requiring schools to investigate only the most "serious forms of harassment and assault," and only act when the sexual violence or harassment completely denies a student access to education, forcing students to endure repeated and escalating levels of abuse without being able to ask their schools for help. (equalrights.org)
  • Sexual harassment and assault is addressed under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. (catholicleague.org)
  • Let's End Campus Sexual Assault" summit, which took place in June, the grant is the next step in prevention efforts. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • All applications will be reviewed by a selection committee consisting of representatives from the governor's Executive Office, MSP, the Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention and Treatment Board and other representatives from victim services providers. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • This study contributes to increasing the knowledge of sexual assault policies on American campuses that would be helpful in the development of more effective prevention policies, increasing sexual assault reporting, and decreasing sexual assaults. (ed.gov)
  • She is a trained community educator on issues related to sexual assault prevention and bullying. (pcar.org)
  • Published recently in the journal Prevention Science , it is among the first analyses to explore how populations with intersecting minority identities have varying risks of sexual assault victimization. (upmc.com)
  • Our studies highlight the need for college prevention and treatment programs to focus efforts on sexual, gender, racial and ethnic minority groups. (upmc.com)
  • If sexual assault prevention efforts solely focus on heterosexual violence, they may invalidate sexual- and gender-minority people's assault experiences and be ineffective for them," said Coulter. (upmc.com)
  • ReportIt and help prevent bias and discrimination on your campus #ReportIt is part of Campus Pride's bias and hate crime prevention resources. (campuspride.org)
  • While students reunite with one another and their campus communities, many colleges are trying to figure out how to help them socialize responsibly by re-engaging them on matters of sexual health and sexual assault prevention. (insidehighered.com)
  • Laura Palumbo, communications director for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, said it's especially important for colleges to educate new students on sexual assault prevention during the red zone , the time spanning the start of the fall semester through Thanksgiving break, when, statistically, more than 50 percent of all college sexual assaults occur. (insidehighered.com)
  • Kim Webb, former president of the American College Health Association and current director of the relationship and sexual violence prevention center at Washington University in St. Louis, said she's concerned about how the pandemic may have affected students' judgment. (insidehighered.com)
  • While college rape prevention programs have been put into place, the programs are not working. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • To further the mission of PSU's Women's Resource Center as it works to educate the campus community about sexual assault and its prevention. (pdx.edu)
  • The Sexual Violence and Harassment Plan Act also creates more requirements for sexual harassment prevention programs and specific employer duties to protect workers, and removes the limitation period for all civil proceedings based on sexual assault. (queensjournal.ca)
  • The action plan outlines measures to be taken -- such as raising public awareness and providing sexual violence prevention training for professions - to make Ontario more responsive to the needs of survivors and complaints about sexual violence and harassment. (queensjournal.ca)
  • Among the changes will be the addition of mandatory two-hour sexual harassment prevention training as well as training for several police officers on strategies for working with sexual violence victims. (policemag.com)
  • This technical assistance document is intended to be a starting place for practitioners and their campus partners to begin planning and implementing sexual violence prevention strategies in a college or university setting. (cdc.gov)
  • This document is intended to begin the dialogue about what it means to move sexual violence prevention upstream. (cdc.gov)
  • And many are simply overwhelmed and don't know where to begin to address the physical, emotional and logistical issues that can occur after an assault. (pcar.org)
  • When Tripp obtained a copy of that Nov. 26 "rape report" in January, she saw that campus police wrote "a crime did not occur," and the time stamped was about 30 minutes after she left the station. (huffpost.com)
  • Such information on campus sexual assaults and the conditions that may allow them to occur would be even more useful if it could be shared across campuses. (rand.org)
  • Estimates of sexual assault, which vary based on definitions and methodology, find that roughly 6.1 sexual assaults per 1000 students occur annually,[dubious - discuss] and that somewhere between 19-27% of college women and 6-8% of college men are sexually assaulted during their time in college. (wikipedia.org)
  • Institutions' top priority as the school year gets underway should be to prevent and respond to claims of sexual harassment, sexual violence and other forms of gender-based violence that occur on campus, Parham said. (insidehighered.com)
  • Although many colleges have policies in place to guard against-and punish the perpetrators of-sexual assault, these unfortunate incidents still occur. (whitelawpllc.com)
  • The Department of Justice states that more than 50 percent of college sexual assaults occur either in August, September, October, or November. (whitelawpllc.com)
  • Emergency notifications are sent when situations occur (contagious diseases, crimes, environmental hazards, or other types of emergencies) that may present an immediate threat to the health or safety of our campus community. (rhodes.edu)
  • For example, the prevalence rate of non-consensual sexual conduct by force or inability to consent was shown to be nearly three times higher for undergraduate women than women in graduate and professional programs. (redbanklegal.com)
  • Summary reports from NISVS present data on the national prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV), sexual violence (SV), and stalking among women and men in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • The deadline for the implementation of college and university sexual assault policies is Jan. 1, 2017. (queensjournal.ca)
  • The programs are not working because most rape or sexual assault cases go unreported completely. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • SINGH: We know that the majority of sexual assault cases go unreported. (npr.org)
  • Such campuses also may dissuade perpetrators from targeting sexual- and gender-minority people. (upmc.com)
  • For example, if a survey shows that students tend to disbelieve and disparage women who have been assaulted, this shared culture may enable perpetrators to continue offending against their peers with little risk of consequences. (rand.org)
  • According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 90 percent of campus sexual assaults are committed by perpetrators that the victim knows. (whitelawpllc.com)
  • Rather than ensure that students are safe enough to learn, their proposal suggests that once again this Administration is committed to protecting the perpetrators rather than the victims of sexual violence . (equalrights.org)
  • She contributes blogs and articles to the PA Coalition Against Rape and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. (pcar.org)
  • According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, one in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while attending college. (whitelawpllc.com)
  • Faculty also submitted a petition , saying the college may be inadvertently harming sexual assault victims through its policies, and some student victims and advocates think Reed is violating federal law. (publicintegrity.org)
  • The same strategy can be used to identify campuses with a higher than expected risk of sexual assault so that resources can be thoughtfully allocated. (rand.org)
  • Kenyora Parham, executive director of End Rape on Campus, a nonprofit organization that works to end campus sexual violence, said that the combination of a new class of freshmen and sophomores who were largely remote during their first year increases the risk of sexual assault and harassment. (insidehighered.com)
  • Sadly, this positive experience can become a nightmarish ordeal as the mere enrollment in a university increases girls' risk of sexual assault. (vincenttriola.com)
  • The imbalance of power was brought to light and with it, a national reckoning focused on righting historic wrongs and giving survivors tools not only to heal from their attacks but hold their attackers and those who enabled these assaults accountable in a court of law. (bishop-accountability.org)
  • The majority of sexual assault incidents go unreported, in part due to different social stigmas experienced by men and women who are victims of these crimes. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • When an institution fails to report crimes occurring on or near its campus, interested parties - such as current and prospective employees and students - may be unaware of serious incidents that could affect their health and safety," Howle wrote. (pressdemocrat.com)
  • Auditors reviewed 15 incidents reported on the campus and found that six of them were not included in the daily logs. (pressdemocrat.com)
  • The university plans to include incidents reported to officials in any department on campus in the daily crime logs. (pressdemocrat.com)
  • Burglary was the most common campus crime reported by SSU in 2019, with 27 incidents that year. (pressdemocrat.com)
  • It also explores the culture surrounding sexual assault on college campuses and why so many incidents remain unreported. (wers.org)
  • The notice provides information about incidents impacting the campus community and is intended to enable campus community members to protect themselves. (rhodes.edu)
  • The following information was taken from the blueprint to address sexual assault and rape myths and explore the facts behind them. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced an array of new initiatives designed to address sexual assault in the military, but they don't address the key complaint of victim advoc. (thenation.com)
  • Well-designed surveys can also help colleges identify attitudes and behaviors that may be supporting sexual assault on their campus. (rand.org)
  • It found that more than 20% of female and 5% of male undergraduates said that they were victims of non-consensual sexual contact, defined as behaviors ranging from unwanted sexual touching or kissing to penetration, through either physical force or incapacitation, since entering college. (wikipedia.org)
  • This propensity to defend rapists and sexual predators speaks to misogyny's causes rooted in high-risk behaviors, indifference, fraternal associations, and poor resources for reporting. (vincenttriola.com)
  • With consequences that can include emotional distress, difficulty concentrating and focusing on academic work, mood changes, excessive substance use, and self-harming behaviors, it's clear that sexual assault and intimate partner violence are issues that require an emergent response. (appi.org)
  • Medeiros and Griffith focus their discussion on sexual harassment that is limited to sexual behaviors enacted toward victims (e.g., sexual advances or sexual assault). (cdc.gov)
  • Specifically, they drew heavily on the literature on college campus sexual assault, mentioned that sexual harassment and sexual assault exist on a continuum and are characterized by an "escalating nature," and referenced numerous explicit sexual behaviors in their examples (e.g., sexual advances, sexual assault). (cdc.gov)
  • The White House is launching a new approach to make our nation's campuses safer for students. (bet.com)
  • Even with reporting numbers notoriously lower than reality, a recent study shows that more than one out of 10 students will report a nonconsensual sexual encounter as an undergraduate. (bishop-accountability.org)
  • Right now you could have a student, sitting next to a professor, sitting next to a student, who have no clue about what the differences is between consensual and nonconsensual sexual assault and yet they are asking technical questions and asking questions frankly that are wildly inappropriate during this administrative process. (wxpr.org)
  • The College was awarded $26,732.43 through the Pennsylvania Department of Education to help combat campus sexual assault. (dccc.edu)
  • Although precise figures are difficult to ascertain, surveys suggest that approximately 20%-25% of female-identified and 5%-10% of male-identified college students experience sexual assault, and 10% of all students experience psychological or physical abuse by an intimate partner. (appi.org)
  • According to the Centers for Disease Control, a study of 5,000 women revealed 20 percent having admitted engaging in sexual acts against their will. (vincenttriola.com)
  • To prevent assaults on campuses, programs should begin when kids are still in elementary school, several sociologists told Live Science. (livescience.com)
  • The 'It's On Us' campaign aims to prevent sexual assaults. (bet.com)
  • What programs or policies are in place to help prevent sexual assaults? (rand.org)
  • Officials are ramping up efforts to promote safe sex and prevent assault. (insidehighered.com)
  • They're encouraging schools to turn a blind eye and shirk their duties under federal law to prevent sexual assault. (equalrights.org)
  • Students will also have gained experience and understanding in what it takes to respond to and prevent sexual assault. (pdx.edu)
  • CDC's Resource for Action, formerly known as, "technical package," that highlights strategies based on the best available evidence to help states and communities prevent and reduce sexual violence. (cdc.gov)
  • Officials at the Rohnert Park school omitted several crimes from the school's annual security report in 2019, including a sexual assault reported that year, according to a report published by the California State Auditor. (pressdemocrat.com)
  • As compared to the AAU's 2015 study, the 2019 study shows that the sexual assault rates for undergraduate men and women have risen by a couple of percentage points. (redbanklegal.com)
  • Looking to a more positive aspect of the study, the report showed that for those schools that participated in both the 2015 survey and the 2019 survey, there was a significant increase in student reports of their knowledge regarding definitions and procedures with respect to sexual assault and sexual misconduct. (redbanklegal.com)
  • As the 2014 White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault recommended ( PDF ) , a confidential survey system could provide routine monitoring of sexual crimes on campus. (rand.org)
  • Previously, the logs included only crimes reported to campus police, Brunetta said. (pressdemocrat.com)
  • SSU is also aiming to improve communication about campus crimes between officials in various departments, according to Brunetta. (pressdemocrat.com)
  • Timely warnings are communicated about crimes defined by the Clery Act that take place within Clery Act defined geography, meaning it is in close enough proximity to campus that it might present a significant or continuing threat. (rhodes.edu)
  • Campus safety alerts are communicated when the college determines crimes or hazards do not meet the criteria of the previous two types of messages, but the campus community should still be made aware of them to increase overall safety. (rhodes.edu)
  • Rhodes College publishes notices when certain crimes are reported on or near campus property in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the Clery Act). (rhodes.edu)
  • Controversy and lack of policy towards sexual assault on campuses reflects a large misogynistic cultural issue. (vincenttriola.com)
  • Studying this problem reveals a lack of policy towards sexual assault on campuses stems from cultural and social promotion of male misogynistic thinking. (vincenttriola.com)
  • This sort of communication failure by authorities can amount to a "second victimization" for sexual assault survivors, said Brett A. Sokolow, president & CEO of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management. (huffpost.com)
  • The NCVS is one of the few national level, longitudinal sources of data on rape and sexual assault, and it has a relatively high response rate (88%) compared to other studies of sexual victimization. (wikipedia.org)
  • Expanding our view: Demographic, behavioral, and contextual factors in college sexual victimization. (sc.edu)
  • This document is a compilation of existing tools for assessing intimate partner violence and sexual violence victimization in clinical/healthcare settings. (cdc.gov)
  • NISVS is an ongoing, population-based survey that collects the most current and comprehensive national- and state-level data on intimate partner violence, sexual violence and stalking victimization in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • The change at Reed followed an April 4 letter released by Vice President Joe Biden urging colleges that receive federal funding to comply with the laws in response to national attention to the issue of sexual assault on campus. (publicintegrity.org)
  • A couple of years ago, writer/director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering broke the silence on the issue of sexual assault in the military with their gripping documentary The Invisible War . (filmfracture.com)
  • Palumbo added that contrary to what many people think, the absence of students on campus last year did not eliminate the issue of sexual assault. (insidehighered.com)
  • Some of Maryland's top higher education leaders told a state Senate panel Thursday that they do not see a lot of positives in the federal Department of Education's proposed regulations on handling sexual assault and misconduct allegations under Title IX. (thedailyrecord.com)
  • Central Connecticut State University President Zulma Toro announced changes to the institution's police department after an investigation into the handling of two sexual assault allegations involving the campus police department, according to Fox News . (policemag.com)
  • The investigation focused on allegations by a female officer with the CCSU Police Department against a male college, Curtis Lollar. (policemag.com)
  • CORNISH: I want to start with you Senator McCaskill because there are already a tangle of laws designed to address how schools deal with sexual assault - The Title IX Gender-Based Equal Protection Law, the 1990 Clery Act which was about reporting crime statistics. (wxpr.org)
  • The researchers hypothesize that sexual- and gender-minority inclusive campus climates may embolden bystanders to stop, or attempt to stop, sexual assault of sexual- and gender-minority people. (upmc.com)
  • Through graphic first-person interviews, fly-on-the-wall footage, and mainstream news stories, The Hunting Ground paints a disturbing picture of the sexually hostile climates of college campuses in America. (filmfracture.com)
  • If college parties and bars around campus do provide the context for some sexual assaults, then making those settings "safer" could be helpful. (securitymagazine.com)
  • These legislative proposals would put the strength of the law behind our commitment to make communities, schools, and workplaces safer, and that is an important part of our roadmap to end sexual violence and harassment in this province," the statement reads. (queensjournal.ca)
  • So why is there a need to bolster the rights of the accused if, in fact, the majority of sexual assault cases still go unreported? (npr.org)
  • For example, a program at the University of California, Riverside, tells men not only to not harass or assault other students, but also to stop these situations from developing, such as by standing up to anyone planning to commit an assault. (livescience.com)
  • Be a public or non-public university, college or community college where students attend classes on a physical campus in the state of Michigan. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • Submit no more than two applications per college/university. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • Students can plug the name of their college or university into the app to receive comprehensive sexual assault-related information specific to their institution and its location. (pcar.org)
  • Amanda Tripp went into the offices of the University of Indianapolis campus police in January 2013 to find out why she had not heard from the department since reporting on Nov. 26, 2012 that an acquaintance sexually assaulted her. (huffpost.com)
  • But both of those reports were listed in the University of Indianapolis daily crime log as "Investigation," with no indication that a student was reporting sexual violence. (huffpost.com)
  • Hall, the university spokesman, insists the dean on the committee did not call the sex "non-consensual," and noted "the outcome did include some measures to make her feel comfortable on campus. (huffpost.com)
  • Ari Mostov reported a sexual assault to the University of Southern California's Department of Public Safety on March 27. (huffpost.com)
  • Professors and administrators who stand up against the status quo of hiding the assaults find themselves black-balled, denied tenure, and sometimes fired from their university positions. (filmfracture.com)
  • An alleged sexual assault that took place in a residence hall on Jan. 27 was reported to the Lehigh University Police Department on Thursday, according to a safety bulletin email sent by police Chief Edward Shupp on Friday morning. (thebrownandwhite.com)
  • The University System of Maryland and the Office of the Attorney General will host university leaders Monday to review the Department of Education's guidance on campus sexual assault from September. (thedailyrecord.com)
  • Unlike typical campus surveys that rely on volunteer student responses, the University of Kentucky made their survey mandatory. (wikipedia.org)
  • A survey conducted by Rutgers University found that 12% of men and women had experienced some form of sexual assault, while at the University of Michigan, 22% of female students said they had been assaulted in the last year. (wikipedia.org)
  • Students at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln held multiple protests in August after a 17-year-old student reported being sexually assaulted at a fraternity. (insidehighered.com)
  • At the University of Kansas , hundreds of students gathered at a fraternity house to protest another reported sexual assault of student. (insidehighered.com)
  • Those protests inspired students at Auburn University to hold a large protest on campus after there were three different reports of sexual assault in just one week. (insidehighered.com)
  • With this in mind, the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work's Institute on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault partnered with the UT System Police to create a science-based, victim centered "blueprint" for law enforcement. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • In a report by the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), 12 percent of college student victims report the assault to law enforcement. (whitelawpllc.com)
  • According to a report from the American Association of University Women Education Foundation, surveying 2,036 enrolled college students, most say they sexually harassed others because they thought it was funny. (whitelawpllc.com)
  • The university was one of four California schools named in the auditor's report for publishing inaccurate or incomplete campus crime statistics. (pressdemocrat.com)
  • San Joaquin Delta College, Santa Clara University and the University of California, Irvine also did not properly report annual crime data as required by federal law, the report said. (pressdemocrat.com)
  • Two schools included in the review, Alliant International University and CaƱada College, did not publish annual crime records. (pressdemocrat.com)
  • Students in this class will work with the Portland State University Women's Resource Center and their community partners to work towards ending sexual assault. (pdx.edu)
  • No student should have to face this kind of decision as they are adjusting to independence and adulthood and no parent should have to fear that their child's university or college would turn a blind eye to sexual assault. (bishop-accountability.org)
  • Queen's Board of Trustees recently passed a university-wide sexual violence policy last Friday. (queensjournal.ca)
  • As we learned last week, Columbia University administrators recently informed students who filed sexual assault claims that they are not allowed to discuss their cases in public. (catholicleague.org)
  • This document is a summary of CDC's work to address sexual violence on college and university campuses. (cdc.gov)
  • Another part of the campus sexual assault problem is that some rapists view women as sexual objects. (livescience.com)
  • The bottom line is, intention aside, these regulations will make it easier for rapists and serial harassers to get away with sexual assault and harassment, and will block survivors from seeking recourse after being assaulted or harassed. (equalrights.org)
  • In an effort to help reduce sexual assaults on campuses across the state, Governor Snyder recommended and the Michigan Legislature appropriated $500,000 from the FY 2016 General Fund to support the grant program. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • Links for campus resources provide contact information for a school's Title IX coordinator, campus police and security, chaplains, the safe rider program, student health services, the counseling center, and a number of other support services. (pcar.org)
  • Proposed Title IX regulations require schools to take sexual misconduct seriously and protect due process. (iwf.org)
  • On Nov. 16, the U.S. Department of Education officially proposed new sexual misconduct regulations to Title IX that would significantly harm students across the country by making it much harder for them to report sexual assault and harassment. (equalrights.org)
  • Campus Safety will work with a student to create a personal statement in these cases, and inform the student that Campus Safety is a mandatory reporter to Title IX. (upbeacon.com)
  • Reports to Campus Safety will be added to the UP Daily Crime and Fire Log and then directed to Title IX. (upbeacon.com)
  • An investigation includes an off-campus investigator who collects evidence and statements, interviews all parties involved, documents information and submits a report to the Title IX Coordinator. (upbeacon.com)
  • The sometimes fierce debate on campus has caused clashes between students and administrators, provoked alumni, spurred graffiti and flyers on campus, and prompted guerilla theater in the college dining room. (publicintegrity.org)
  • What kinds of attitudes and opinions do their students, faculty, and administrators have about sexual assault? (rand.org)
  • Administrators who learn that sexual assault is not only a problem on their campus but that it is more pronounced than at peer institutions are likely to be more motivated to engage in the hard work of examining their practices and policies, identifying weaknesses in the system and finding solutions. (rand.org)
  • For too long, college administrators ignored the serious problem of campus sexual assault and showed little interest in providing resources for victims or disciplining student offenders. (iwf.org)
  • The issue has been brought up to college boards and administrators. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • Here's how campus police and administrators should respond to eight common myths and misconceptions about college rape and sexual assault. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • The federal government took one step in 2013 , with an update to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that requires colleges receiving federal aid to annually report to the government the number of assaults on their campuses, and to have programs on rape awareness and systems to assist victims. (livescience.com)
  • And women could fight against the culture that makes some assaults seem permissible by increasing their self-agency, or their awareness of the control they have over their own thoughts, decisions and actions, she said. (livescience.com)
  • Launched in 2014, It's On Us was created by President Barack Obama and the White House Council on Women and Girls as a way to raise awareness about and fight against sexual assault on college campuses. (dccc.edu)
  • Tripp's experience is similar what women at several other colleges say happened to them when they reported sexual violence. (huffpost.com)
  • Non-transgender women had nearly 150 percent greater odds of being sexually assaulted in the past year than non-transgender men. (upmc.com)
  • Among non-transgender women, bisexual women had higher odds of sexual assault than heterosexual women. (upmc.com)
  • Compared with white women, black women had higher odds of sexual assault, while Latino and Asian women had lower odds. (upmc.com)
  • Much of The Hunting Ground focuses on two young women - Annie Clark and Andrea Pino - who, both survivors of sexual assault, have founded an organization called End Rape On Campus (EROC). (filmfracture.com)
  • Estimates of campus sexual assault measured on surveys vary across populations and over time, however a recent review concluded that a "reasonable average" of around 1 in 5 (20%) of women were sexually assaulted during their time in college. (wikipedia.org)
  • A 2014 assessment by Sinozich and Langton used longitudinal data from the NCVS to measure rape and sexual assault among college aged U.S. women from 1995 to 2013. (wikipedia.org)
  • The study also found that college aged women (regardless of enrollment status) were assaulted at a significantly higher rate than non-college age women, 4.3 per 1,000 per year versus 1.4 per 1,000 per year, but that women who were not enrolled in college were 1.2 times more likely to be assaulted than college aged women who were enrolled. (wikipedia.org)
  • Despite the evidence presented in the documentary, similarly documented by the NIJ , Yoffe, refers to 20% of women being assaulted on college campuses as a "moral panic" that makes discussion impossible (Yoffe, 2015). (vincenttriola.com)
  • 1 in 5 women will be a victim of sexual assault during her academic career. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • What Age Women Are Usually Sexually Assaulted in College? (whitelawpllc.com)
  • Young adults, especially women ages 18-24, are at a high risk for sexual assault and sexual violence on college campuses . (whitelawpllc.com)
  • Today's announced proposal directly attacks equality in education, attempts to undo decades of civil rights progress , and disproportionately harms students who are at highest risk of sexual violence: women of color and LGBTQI students . (equalrights.org)
  • You know, having one in five women being raped during their college career is unacceptable. (wxpr.org)
  • Most notably, among undergraduate women, there was an increase of 11.5 percentage points regarding the knowledge of the definition of sexual assault and other misconduct and a 12.4 percent increase for undergraduate men with respect to the same. (redbanklegal.com)
  • Delaware County Community College is proud to be one of 38 colleges, and the only community college, to receive a 2018-19 grant from It's On Us PA. (dccc.edu)
  • One-third of adolescent girls' first sexual experiences involved unwanted sex (Crawford, 2018, pg 381). (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • By focusing on bystander intervention, we hope to empower students and staff to take an active role in contributing to a safe community, while helping to create a cultural shift in which sexual violence is no longer acceptable or tolerated," says Doyle. (dccc.edu)
  • Additionally, inclusive campuses may empower people to reduce their likelihood of becoming sexual assault victims by, for example, being cautious when drinking alcohol. (upmc.com)
  • In some cases, the victim is made to take an online class about preventing sexual assault while the alleged attacker suffers no repercussions at all. (filmfracture.com)
  • Sexual assault and rape victims may go through a wide range of emotions and responses following an attack, and just because a victim does not outwardly appear emotional does not mean she or he is not emotional. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • Myth 3: Avoiding eye contact, shifting in a chair or showing discomfort means a sexual assault victim is lying. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • Myth 4: If the victim didn't fight back or resist the assailant, she or he consented or the sexual activity was mutual and not forced. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • If you or a loved one has been the victim of a sexual assault in Michigan, our Okemos personal injury attorneys at White Law PLLC can offer experienced legal assistance in regard to securing compensation for medical expenses, pain and suffering, and emotional distress. (whitelawpllc.com)
  • Many U.S. colleges have already begun using the programs, which train people in how to recognize and intervene in situations where a potential perpetrator may be zeroing in on a potential victim. (securitymagazine.com)
  • The sexual assault expert hired by Reed College last year has submitted his resignation with the elite private college still embroiled in turmoil over its sexual assault policies, a set of disciplinary procedures that the college itself recently determined were partially out of compliance with federal law. (publicintegrity.org)
  • An educational institution my not prohibit either the accuser or the accused in a college disciplinary case involving a sex offense from 'redisclosure' of the outcome of the case. (publicintegrity.org)
  • In a complementary study, the researchers found that some minority groups are at considerably higher risk for sexual assault in college than peers in majority groups. (upmc.com)
  • Students who perceived that their campus was more inclusive of sexual- and gender-minority people had 27 percent lower odds of having been sexually assaulted than their peers who felt their campus was less inclusive. (upmc.com)
  • A rape awareness program based on this idea, called "Yes Means Yes," has made headway: California, New York and Illinois have some form of affirmative consent laws for college campuses, and several other states have introduced bills, according to Affirmative Consent , which tracks legislation. (livescience.com)
  • The College has participated in It's On Us PA since its inception, and also received a grant last year to raise awareness of sexual violence on campuses. (dccc.edu)
  • In April, as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Michael Domitrz will present "Can I Kiss You? (dccc.edu)
  • This chapter is focused on raising awareness about the problem of sexual violence globally, and to make the case that violence is preventable. (cdc.gov)
  • Students are returning to campus after more than a year of remote learning, and they're ready to party. (insidehighered.com)
  • This fall, there is this sentiment out there from students that they may feel as though they're making up for lost time or feel like they have lost parts of their college experience because of the past year," Palumbo said. (insidehighered.com)
  • Following, the welcoming of different colleges to their incoming first year students. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • 201). In first year college students, they are just getting to know the feeling of freedom, being away from their parents, and experiencing many different situations. (termpaperwarehouse.com)
  • This was the first and only sexual assault reported on the Crime and Fire Log this academic year. (upbeacon.com)
  • Just as we debate what behavior should be criminal, whether to put people in prison, and what factors are "mitigating" or "aggravating," debate is needed about whether a six-month, a one-year or a total ban from a campus are appropriate for which kinds of sexualized misconduct. (thenation.com)
  • Because the truth remains that there is not much of a difference between a 17-year-old Catholic high school student and an 18-year-old in their first year of college. (bishop-accountability.org)
  • In Berkeley, Calif., Erin Reilly is getting ready for her freshman year at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. (wypr.org)
  • Earlier this year, President Barack Obama established a White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. (catholicleague.org)
  • By the end of the term students will be able to articulate the definitions and dynamics of sexual violence as well as current issues in the field. (pdx.edu)
  • Although the study shows that knowledge among college students as to the definitions and procedures surrounding sexual assault and sexual misconduct has increased since the first study in 2015, it also shows that incidences of sexual assault on college campuses have risen as well. (redbanklegal.com)
  • This media guide includes definitions and key terms, statistics, language considerations, and resources to aid in reporting about sexual violence. (cdc.gov)
  • Research consistently shows that the majority of rape and other sexual assault victims do not report their attacks to law enforcement. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a Senate panel on sexual assault, Senator Chuck Grassley questioned why college campus rape is not handled by law enforcement rather then campus security (NPR, 2014). (vincenttriola.com)
  • It may seem impossible to change a culture that makes assault seem permissible, but it's certainly feasible to change factors that make such a culture, Peretz said. (livescience.com)
  • At Delaware County Community College, our goal is to make your college experience the best it can be. (dccc.edu)
  • When you're combining two classes of students who are new to campus with returning juniors and seniors who are anxious to make up for lost time and party with friends, colleges are having that potential crisis of sexual assault on their hands due to what those environments or groups may create," Parham said. (insidehighered.com)
  • And so what Senator McCaskill, I and others are doing is we are flipping the incentives, we are going to make it in the school's best interest to not only get this right but have the tools they need to end sexual assault on their campuses. (wxpr.org)
  • They need to make sure they have people on campus that are trained, that understand this crime, that are trained in forensic interviewing so they can ask the right questions. (wxpr.org)