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Survey shows 25% of women sexually abused at uni
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A QUARTER of women surveyed at more than two dozen universities in the United States said they experienced unwanted sexual contact sometime during college, according to a report released yesterday.
The results of the Association of American Universities (AAU) Campus Climate Survey come at a time of heightened scrutiny of the nation’s colleges and universities and what they are doing to combat sexual assault.
Just last week, US Vice President Joe Biden visited Ohio State University to highlight several new initiatives, including mandatory sexual violence awareness training for freshmen beginning next year.
The survey was sent to nearly 780,000 students and completed by about 150,000. The results were generally in line with past polls on sexual assault and misconduct on college campuses, and confirmed that alcohol and drugs are key risk factors.
Researchers cautioned against generalizations, partly because of different rates among women and men, and students at different years in their schooling. It was not a representative sample of all the nation’s universities.
Some students attended schools that have recently grappled with reports of sexual assaults or misconduct, including the University of Virginia, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ohio State.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan said that a widely discredited and later retracted Rolling Stone magazine story about a gang-rape at a fraternity house harmed efforts to fight sexual violence and tarred the school’s reputation.
Hazing that included excessive underage drinking and sexualized conduct prompted the University of Wisconsin-Madison to close a fraternity chapter, while Ohio State fired its marching band director after an internal investigation turned up a “sexualized culture” of rituals and traditions there.
Overall, 23 percent of undergraduate women polled said they had been physically forced — or threatened with force — into nonconsensual sexual contact. The figure for undergraduate men was 5 percent.
Freshman women appeared to be at greater risk than older students for the most serious sexual assaults. About 17 percent of them said they had been victims of this type of assault.
“Our universities are working to ensure their campuses are safe places for students,” AAU President Hunter Rawlings said in a statement.
“The primary goal of the survey is to help them better understand the experiences and attitudes of their students with respect to this challenge.”
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