In October 2013, America Tonight launched a special broadcast and digital series on campus assault, exploring the numbers, who these rapists are, the role of alcohol and the strategies of activists to end the problem.
Since then, we've investigated colleges across the country, analyzed the stakes and the stakeholders, and closely followed the shifting politics.
What do we now know? What's changed? What piece of the problem has proven stubbornly fixed? Follow our stories right here, on Facebook and on Twitter. And share your own stories with the hashtag #campusassault.
Rebecca thought her alleged rapist would be expelled when University of Kansas found him responsible for sexual assault. But instead, the school just put him on probation. Then, last fall, Rebecca saw America Tonight's first "Sex Crimes on Campus" series and learned about her rights for the first time. Joie Chen tells her story of fighting back, part of a growing movement over the last year that has 86 colleges – KU now included – under investigation for how they handle sexual violence.
Josh Strange was expelled from Auburn University in 2012 after a campus tribunal found him responsible for sexually assaulting a classmate. He insists he's innocent, and that the disciplinary process – overseen by a librarian – was a travesty of a legal process. Christof Putzel digs into the growing backlash of male students who say their colleges' systems are stacked against them, and how their mothers cope with the allegations against their sons and campaign to clear their names.
After a classmate raped her in the band room of her high school in Henderson, Texas, Rachel Bradshaw reported it. Within a day, the police decided the sex was consensual, and the school sent Rachel to an alternative disciplinary school – with her rapist. While the failure of many colleges to handle sexual assault has made headlines for a year, Lori Jane Gliha investigates how high schools are in fact far worse, traveling with Bradshaw back to her hometown with all of its dark memories.
The conservative Christian school responds to blistering report on how it told rape victims to repent
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Rachel Bradshaw says the police decided within 24 hours that the sex was consensual, but she has no idea why
It's not just college students blasting their schools for allegedly violating their Title IX rights
2014 will go down in history as the year colleges were forced to confront sexual violence among students
Student says California Institute of the Arts failed to protect her from the harassment of her rapist & his friends
From 2011 to 2013, reports of sex offenses increased significantly at the top 25 US universities
In disciplining a student for rape, the University of Kansas considered prior sex with the victim a mitigating factor
A landmark government survey found systemic failures in how colleges handle sexual assault
Former students at ‘the fortress of faith’ who reported sexual abuse say they were told they had sinned
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State is first in nation to make affirmative consent language a key element of school sexual assault policies
A new video featuring Obama, Biden and celebrities tells men to intervene when they see sexual assault
Some former students withhold donations as a way of sending a message about campus sexual assault policies
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