According to federal campus safety data, 100 colleges and universities had at least 10 reports of rape on their main campuses in 2014. “The fact that 43 incidents were reported indicates that we are building trust among our campus community members in how the university responds to reported incidents of sexual and gender-based violence”.
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UConn spokeswoman Stephanie Reitz said that beyond working to cultivate a culture of forthrightness, another reason UConn’s numbers are so high compared to many institutions is that they include not only cases reported to the police – but others as well.
Like other USA colleges and universities, Stanford has been under renewed pressure from federal education officials, state lawmakers and students to improve the way sexual assault victims are treated and to ensure perpetrators face serious and consistent consequences.
The sentencing of a Stanford University student convicted of rape is gaining national attention. At Baylor, there were four.
A former Brown University assistant wrestling coach secretly recorded a conversation with the lawyer representing the 24-year-old former student who was suing the school after being falsely accused of rape in 2006, revealing never before released details about settlement discussions that took place a month before an agreement was quietly reached.
Reaching out for comment, Lisa Maatz from American Association of University Women suggests campuses to address the issue by considering the civil rights instead of a campus-image problem.
Some Stanford faculty and students remain unimpressed with the university’s handling of sexual assaults and its response to the Turner case.
Compared nationally, the College Park is tied in 20th for most reported rapes. Wesleyan University reported 37 of rape cases followed by University of Virginia with 35 cases.
The Washington Post’s analysis, covering more than 1,300 schools with at least 1,000 students, found 99 schools had at least 10 reports of rape on their main campuses in 2014. “We have made the process very transparent and as friendly as it can possibly be in that situation”, Myers said. It’s risky, giving colleges a strong incentive to bury their heads in the sand and discourage victims of rape from coming forward about what happened to them. “Our numbers are showing truthfully what is happening on our campus”.
About two-thirds of reported completed rapes occur off campus and one-third on campus.
The data which is reported by the DOE’s office of Campus Safety and Security.
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“We strongly encourage individuals to report crimes and to use the resources provided by the university”, Rutgers officials said in a statement.
