Dive Brief:
- One out of every five colleges and universities don’t provide sexual assault training for faculty and staff members, and 31% don’t provide the training for students, according to preliminary results released from a survey of 450 colleges and universities by U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO).
- McCaskill plans to reveal the full results of the survey Wednesday, and she drummed up some publicity Tuesday by releasing the initial two data points to Bloomberg and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
- To jog your memory: This is the survey that The American Council on Education, a higher education lobbying group, cautioned colleges about answering.
Dive Insight:
McCaskill plans to propose legislation addressing the issue of sexual violence on campuses, and it may include language on training people who deal with sexual assaults and how suspected assaults should be reported and investigated. One question created by the ACE webinar that highlighted the risks of answering the senator’s questions: Did the lobbying group ultimately influence the answers colleges gave for the survey, and did it impact the response rate?
