Frankie Cordeira Jr.

Description: STUDY: 89% of colleges reported ZERO campus rapes... Stanford students wear a 1/3 sign on their caps to show solidarity for a Stanford rape victim during graduation ceremonies at Stanford University in Palo Alto California on June 12 2016. The 1/3 represents a statistic that claims one in three students will experience a sexual assault by the time they graduate college. (Photo: Gabrielle Lurie AFP/Getty Images) Most U.S. colleges 89% reported zero incidents of rape in 2015 according to American Association of University Women (AAUW) analysis of data provided by schools to the U.S. Department of Education. Reported is the key word. Just because a school had no rape reports doesnt mean no rapes happened. AAUWs findings very likely do not reflect the true state of sexual violence among college students since a majority of incidentsgo unreported. In fact a 2014 report by the U.S. Department of Justice estimated that 80% of student victims dont report their rape or sexual assault to police based on data from19952013. Still the 2015 AAUW report isnt as rosy as the previous years. In 2014 91% of schools reported zero rapes based on annual crime data disclosed by more than 11000 colleges and universities. Other studies have yielded a different picture of sexual violence on campuses. More than one in five students said they had experienced sexual abuse along with physical abuse and threats of physical violence a 2011 survey by Fifth & Pacific and Knowledge Networks of more than 500 college young adults aged 18-29 found. Why the apparent disparity between reported and actual numbers? Victims have numerous reasons for not reporting their assaults. Twelve percent of victims felt their assaults were not important enough to report to police according to the DOJ data. Other reasons cited for not reporting include personal reasons and fear of reprisal. Schools in U.S. federal financial aid programs are required to submit federal-funded yearly reports of campus violence under the Clery Act legislation Congress passed in 1990 after a Lehigh University student was raped and killed in her dorm room in 1986. These also include updates on university safety and security policies. TheViolence Against Women Act originally passed in 1994 and reauthorized in 2013 adds to the Clery Act requirements in having schools disclose information on rapedomestic violence dating violence and stalking. AAUW also found that nine percent of schools reported domestic violence incidents and 10% reported dating violence in 2015.
By Frankie Cordeira Jr.
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