The results of last year’s Barnard College “campus climate survey” have been made public, and twenty percent of the students who took it noted they had been sexually assaulted “in some form.”
Barnard is a private women’s institution.
The survey also asked about “[student] awareness of campus resources for mental and physical health and their experiences with harassment and discrimination based on race, sexuality, and gender.”
The Columbia Daily Spectator reports:
… 95 percent of students who took the survey indicated they would file an official report through at least one of the available mechanisms, only 50 percent reported awareness of the Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment.
Barnard has administered the campus climate survey to the student body since 2012, and this year’s results were announced the night before Thursday’s town hall will be hosted by Barnard’s Student Government Association to discuss the campus climate.
“It is important to note that this survey was tailored to the Barnard campus. As a result, any comparison of the Barnard survey results to other published data is not practical because there is not a uniform measure currently in use,” the survey states. “Rather, the Barnard results can be helpful for benchmarking Barnard student experiences across years here at the College, such as assessing awareness of resources and likelihood to report information.”
The survey notes that it’s unknown whether the sexual assaults actually took place on campus, and what relationship the victim of the assault had (if any) with the perpetrator.
Two of the questions used to determine “sexual assault” were
- “Had unwanted sex play or sexual intercourse because you were under the influence of alcohol or other substances?”
and
- “Given in to sexual play (fondling, kissing, touching, but not intercourse) when you didn’t want to because you were overwhelmed by the other person’s arguments and/or pressure?”
Read the full Spectator article and Barnard survey report.
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