The problem of sexual assault on college campuses took center stage as a national issue during the past year, when it became the focus of unprecedented federal scrutiny. In January 2014, President Barack Obama announced the creation of a new White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, joining forces with the already-functioning Council on Women and Girls. In the same month, the latter agency issued Rape and Sexual Assault: A Renewed Call to Action.1 The report addressed the issue of sexual assault and violence in general, but noted that it was “a particular problem” on college campuses, and cited the now-familiar statistic that 20 percent of college women would be sexually assaulted during their college years.
And not only the White House: In May 2014 the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
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