Here is an op-ed piece on Campus Sexual Assaults and U.S. News & World Report college rankings. Several weeks ago a question was raised about U.S. News & World Report college rankings and whether or not they should include campus sexual assaults. The U.S. News & World Report rankings are a hugely influential factor in how millions of people make college decisions every year. "Brian Kelly, the editor of U.S. News & World Report, just announced that U.S. News will not include campus sexual-assault data in it's annual college ranking...

This is a story from Reuters news service about campus Sexual Assaults and how the White House is pressing U.S. Colleges and Universities to do more to curb these assaults. Part of the national effort is to establish new website NotAlone.gov to help victims find resources and report crimes. This comes after a three-month study on how to curb sexual assaults on college campuses. "Colleges and universities need to face the facts about sexual assault. No more turning a blind eye or pretending it doesn't exist," Vice President Joe Biden...

In a recent cover story in Time.com on The Sexual Assault Crisis on American Campuses they labeled America's campuses as hazardous places. The truth is, for young women, particularly those who are 18 or 19 years old, just beginning their college experience, America’s campuses are hazardous places. Recent research shows that 1 in 5 women is the victim of an attempted or completed sexual assault during college. That shocking number has students, parents and politicians questioning the way schools protect students and adjudicate the cases of sexual assault. Many people...

This is an article out of a magazine that caters to teenagers about sexual assaults on college campuses. You can read the whole story HERE. We have been writing this topic for close to 10 years now, but it's finally starting to get some traction in support all the way up to the White House was Pres. Obama calling on schools across the country to address the problem. He created a task force known as the White House Council on women and girls. At the same time that was happening...

Here's another story about how state legislators in Connecticut are trying to curtail campus sexual assaults. You can read the whole story HERE. The bill requires institutions to permit anonymous reporting of assaults, promote bystander intervention, establish resource teams to review policies and create links with local crisis centers. There's a lot of frustration on college campuses about what appears to be the lack of support from state legislators on this issue. "There is a lot more that needs to be done, but it needs to be done by faculty,...

Here's a story from the Huffington Post on the pitiful grades that most colleges got when judged on Campus Assaults. This may be young college students first encounter with the bureaucracy. To combat the red tape and lack of transparency, student activists have called on their peers, allied faculty members, the federal government, and organizations like SAFER to speak out in support of survivors and demand stronger, survivor-oriented college sexual assault policies. The findings of the Campus Accountability Project speak volumes about the deficiencies of existing campus sexual assault policies....

This is an article that talks about Domestic Violence and the effects it has not only on the individual but on the cost to society as well. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), domestic violence costs society billions of dollars every year with employers losing $13 billion a year due to absences and lost productivity. The CDC also estimates victims who receive medical treatment for physical assault face an average cost of $2,665. "Direct medical expenses and mental health services in response to domestic violence cost nearly $4.1...

Here's a story about campus Sexual Assaults where US representative Pat Meehan R-Delaware, convened regional experts on campus safety last month to discuss the issue and come up with policy recommendations on how to narrow the gap between the number of actually assaulted women and the number who choose to report it. Nearly 20 percent of women attending college are sexually assaulted or victims of an attempted assault, yet only between 5 and 12 percent of them report the attacks. "That gap is staggering," he said. "That amount of victims...