AUSTIN, Texas — Nov. 19, 2014 — Campus Advantage is raising awareness
about sexual assault on college campuses by participating in the It's On Us campaign's National Week of Action (Nov. 17 - 23) as the first student housing industry partner in the yearlong effort.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D - N.Y., talked about her bill to crack down
on sexual assaults on college campuses with Anna, center, a survivor of sexual assault, with her mother Susan, right, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 30, 2014.
SU was the first private school in New York state to join the initiative to
end sexual assault on college campuses, and the university will continue to do what is already being done to build awareness on campus, said Sheila Johnson - Willis, interim chief officer for equal opportunity and Title IX coordinator.
ALBANY — Senate higher education committee chair Ken LaValle released a report Wednesday detailing legislative recommendations for
combating sexual assaults on college campuses, some of which overlap with changes Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed last week for SUNY.
Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Claire McCaskill are calling on U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to reverse a decision from her department's Office for Civil Rights changing the way it investigates complaints, arguing that the move would hamper investigations
into sexual assault on college campuses.
In October 2014, when the governor announced his proposal for a statewide policy for
handling sexual assault on college campuses, he included specific «affirmative consent» language in a resolution that was adopted by the SUNY Board of Trustees.
In a statement, Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos said his conference
takes sexual assaults on college campuses seriously and he looks forward to working with LaValle, who released a report on the topic and plans to hold further hearings, «to ensure that students at all New York college campuses are kept safe.»
Lawmakers this year passed a bill that would require college officials to report violent crimes to law enforcement agencies within 24 hours, which encourages police investigations of
sexual assaults on college campuses rather than internal college probes.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will lead a roundtable discussion at Syracuse University on Monday about
sexual assaults on college campuses as she touts a bill to make schools more accountable to survivors.
«What is particularly unique about this analysis, aside from being one of the largest studies to
examine sexual assault on college campuses, is that it provided insights into how sexual assault varies among populations with multiple and intersecting marginalized identities — such as being both transgender and black,» said Coulter.
DoE staff members — and public school advocates outside the department — could also try to sway DeVos's handling of other department responsibilities, such as discrimination complaints filed against universities, and
investigating sexual assaults on college campuses under Title IX.
Her detractors particularly fear that she might roll back protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students and that the federal government may walk away from its recent regulations meant to
stem sexual assaults on college campuses.
Jettisoned from the budget talks, too, were discussions over juvenile justice reform and
curtailing sexual assault on college campuses (funding for raising the age of criminal responsibility is still under discussion in the budget talks).
The Senate and Assembly, meanwhile, both passed a measure aimed at combating rape and
sexual assault on college campuses through new reporting requirements and an affirmative consent guideline for sexual encounters.
During the call, Biden also addressed the ongoing issue
of sexual assault on college campuses, saying that at least 1 in 5 women will be raped or assaulted during her time on campus, a number that is even higher for LGBTQ students.
In 2011, the Obama administration decided to use Title IX to address the problem of
sexual assault on college campuses.
Smolyansky is active in the conversation about sexual violence, and is one of the executive producers of The Hunting Ground, the 2015 documentary about
sexual assault on college campuses that Lady Gaga wrote «Till it Happens to You» for; the two connected because of the film.
The implications of Rolling Stone's mistakes, and how they'll shape the debate over the very real problem of
sexual assault on college campuses, are topics the media will be battling over for weeks to come.
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