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...

Here's a story out of ABC news in Australia concerning what many are calling a Domestic Violence Epidemic. The story goes on to say that domestic violence is it epidemic proportions and that it is reached the point where it is time to clear a national emergency. "I think it's about saying for once we are going to pull together all our resources and treat this in the way we would if it was a national disaster of any kind, like a flood or a bushfire, and deal with it...

If you could choose one weapon for self-defense, which would it be? For women the ability to defend themselves from a distance is very appealing. Most pepper sprays have a range of at least 8 feet some as high as 18 feet. Women have more opportunities to use a self-defense weapon because they are assaulted nine times more often than men. And if you need any more convincing consider this. Every law enforcement officer in the country carries a pepper spray on his utility belt. It is a key component...

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...

Nationally, 32 percent of college-aged women — and one in five girls age 12 to 15 — experience dating violence, officials said at the announcement. But one survey showed that 81 percent of parents didn't think teen dating violence was a problem or didn't know if it was, said Cheryl Pytel, a member of the Interval House board. You can read the rest of the story on Teen Dating Violence right here. Teen dating should be discussed "the way you talk about alcohol, tobacco, texting and driving," she said. "It...

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,...