Sentences with phrase «violence on university campuses»

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The discredited story was intended to call attention to the issue of sexual violence on college campuses, but it might have had the opposite effect by reinforcing the notion that rape allegations are often fictitious, a team from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism concluded in its critique.

Thursday, Baylor University released the scathing findings of fact from the school - commissioned investigation by law firm Pepper Hamilton into a sexual violence scandal on its campus.

Based on a high - level audit of all reports of sexual harassment or violence for three academic years from 2012 - 2013 through 2014 - 2015, Pepper found that the University's student conduct processes were wholly inadequate to consistently provide a prompt and equitable response under Title IX, that Baylor failed to consistently support complainants through the provision of interim measures, and that in some cases, the University failed to take action to identify and eliminate a potential hostile environment, prevent its recurrence, or address its effects for individual complainants or the broader campus community.

The violence that preempted the talk of a prominent alt - right speaker on University of California Berkeley's campus has set off a debate over the role of free speech in American society.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos declared that «the era of «rule by letter» is over» as she announced plans to change the way colleges and university handle allegations of sexual violence on campus.

US Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul teamed up at the University at Buffalo campus yesterday morning to push the same agenda — combatting sexual violence on college campuses.

The statewide inspection will ensure that all colleges and universities are fulfilling their obligations under the law to protect students from sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking, and are taking every measure to properly investigate allegations of sexual assault on campus.

ALBANY — In a resolution calling for the adoption of a new, systemwide policy for the handling of sexual assaults on SUNY campuses, Governor Andrew Cuomo was lauded for having «taken an active leadership role addressing sexual violence on college / university campuses.»

T [2] symbol for the Dvorak T - number, a subjective estimate of the A five - year - old child was stabbed to death in a domestic violence incident on the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus, officials said.

(N.H.) As colleges and universities across the country struggle to deal with what appear to be large numbers of sexual assaults and incidents of dating violence, efforts to stem the tide are focusing more on reaching students well before they ever set foot on a post-secondary campus.