25% of Female Brown Students Reported “Unwanted Sexual Touching” in Survey
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
According to new survey data released by Brown University, since starting college, 25 percent of Brown undergraduate women and 6.8 percent of undergraduate men who participated in the survey experienced either unwanted sexual touching or attempted or completed penetration due to physical force or incapacitation.
Brown released the data Monday from from the Report on the AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct gathered through surveys in April 2015 by Westat, an independent national research company. Brown was part of a 27-institution survey organized by the Association of American Universities (AAU).
“For Brown, the report reinforces our Sexual Assault Task Force’s call to action for confronting the very real problem of gender-based harassment and violence,” Brown President Christina Paxson said. “The results of the survey establish a clear baseline against which we can assess ourselves going forward and will continue to inform ongoing education and prevention efforts to address these problems.”
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According to Brown, the university has been working to transform its approach to sexual violence coinciding with campus activism on this issue since early 2014.
A Sexual Assault Task Force of faculty, students and staff submitted its final report at the end of the last academic year, and according to Brown officials, many of its recommendations already are in effect.
“Brown has come a long way since the AAU survey was conducted last April,” Paxson said in her email to the campus. “The data in the AAU report have revealed areas for ongoing attention, including education about available support resources and greater clarity around our procedures. While we have increased the transparency of our complaint process through the use of trained investigators and specified timeframes for each step, we are working to ensure the information is clear and accessible to the entire campus.”
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