{"id":66405,"date":"2015-04-06T08:53:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T13:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=66405"},"modified":"2015-04-06T12:34:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:34:33","slug":"78-of-college-presidents-say-sexual-assault-is-rare-on-their-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/04\/06\/78-of-college-presidents-say-sexual-assault-is-rare-on-their-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 6% of College Presidents Think that Sexual Crime is Prevalent on Their Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White House<\/a> has made preventing sexual assaults on college campuses a priority, The Hunting Ground<\/em><\/a> documents extensive institutional denial and malfeasance, the Department of Justice<\/a> finds that one in five college women are assaulted,\u00a0research<\/a> shows that 1 in 25 college men is a serial rapist, and students at\u00a0almost 100<\/a> campuses\u00a0have filed federal complaints against their schools.<\/p>\n

Yet, according to a study of 647 college presidents<\/a>, only\u00a0a third (32%) believe\u00a0that sexual assault is\u00a0prevalent on college campuses in general and only a tiny minority (6%) think it’s prevalent on their own campus.<\/p>\n

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This is stunning. Never before in history has the problem of sexual assault on campus been better documented. The media has never covered the issue so thoroughly, frequently, and sympathetically. We are in a\u00a0moment of national<\/em> reflection.\u00a0Under these<\/em> circumstances, a quarter of\u00a0college presidents claim that\u00a0sexual assault isn’t prevalent anywhere\u00a0and\u00a078% deny that it’s\u00a0prevalent\u00a0on their own campus.<\/p>\n

These were confidential surveys, so impression management can’t explain these numbers. Those 94% of college presidents who don’t think that sexual crimes are prevalent at their schools\u00a0either think the numbers are wrong, think their own institutions are exceptions, or think that one in five isn’t fairly described as\u00a0“prevalent.” Or maybe some combination of the above.<\/p>\n

No wonder faculty are frustrated and students\u00a0around the country have felt forced to turn\u00a0to the federal government<\/a> for help. It’s clear. College presidents are either recklessly ignorant or willfully in denial\u00a0— that, or\u00a0they simply\u00a0don’t believe women or don’t care about them.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The White House has made preventing sexual assaults on college campuses a priority, The Hunting Ground documents extensive institutional denial and malfeasance, the Department of Justice finds that one in five college women are assaulted,\u00a0research shows that 1 in 25 college men is a serial rapist, and students at\u00a0almost 100 campuses\u00a0have filed federal complaints against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":66408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[209,12508,2056,34,55,2101,2095,2087,2090,304,120,133],"class_list":["post-66405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-crimelaw","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-gender-education","tag-gender-feminismactivism","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-gender-violence","tag-the-state","tag-sex","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/141.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66405"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66431,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66405\/revisions\/66431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}