Dive Brief:

• Columbia University’s president has announced new policies to make its investigations and punishments of sexual assaults on campus more transparent.
• University President Lee Bollinger said anonymous data on sexual assaults will be released starting with this academic year, in what he called a "delicate balancing of confidentiality and transparency."
• Bollinger said the disclosures would go beyond what is required by the Clery Act, the federal law that requires schools to disclose campus crime.

Dive Insight:

The new policy is being announced against a backdrop of a recent student magazine article in which three women said they were frustrated with the way the school handled their sexual assault cases. That prompted an open letter from students to the administration calling on the school to improve its handling of such cases.