It’s the first time the University of Oregon has done the ‘Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault’.

Beyond expanded Green Dot training and increased efforts to make students aware of official University policies and processes, Kennedy said that large-scale change would require a similarly large-scale shift in the mindset of college students nationwide.

“The data reinforce the alarming frequency with which our students, especially but by no means only our undergraduates, experience incidents of sexual assault“, Faust said in the email.

In 2014, ISU started requiring the incoming class to take an online course that talks about sexual assault and misconduct on campus.

“These results provide invaluable information for us in terms of evaluating our efforts to date and identifying areas most in need of improvement”, CWRU Vice President for Student Affairs Lou Stark said in a statement.

But the survey also showed bystanders to potential sexual assault situations were largely passive. “One sexual assault is too many”. Among female undergraduate students who participated in the survey, 23.1 percent reported such incidents.

However, even among those who experienced the most serious crimes, such as penetrative rape, only about 1 in 4 students said they reported their attacks to either their school or law enforcement. Conducted by Westat, a social science firm that sent out electronic questionnaires for the Association of American Universities, the survey data jibes with another poll out earlier this year. Given this reality, it is unsurprising that less than half-43 percent-of MSU female undergraduate students said they believed a fair investigation would occur, and just over one-third of the surveyed female undergrads said they believed underlying issues contributing to a sexually hostile campus would be addressed. The “It’s On Us” White House campaign against sexual violence was one of the initiatives. “The primary goal of the survey is to help them better understand the experiences and attitudes of their students with respect to this challenge”. Reporting penetration by physical force, for example, ranged from a low of 17% to a high of 46%.

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.

The University participated in the national study including 8,000 U of M students in the process.

Incidences of unwanted touching or kissing were also recorded by the authors of the report. “Less than half (44.6 percent) said it was very or extremely likely that the individual’s safety would be supported”. Other participants included Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Purdue and the University of Arizona.