Dive Brief:

• Penn State University had more reports of forcible sex offenses — 56 — than any other campus in the U.S. in 2012, the latest year figures are available, the Washington Post reported.
• The Penn State number, for its flagship University Park campus, was up from 24 in 2011, and just four in 2010.
• Rounding out the top seven: the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with 34, Harvard University with 31, Indiana University-Bloomington at 27, and Stanford University and Emory University, both with 26.

Dive Insight:

Penn State says the 2012 spike includes a count of numerous assaults from prior years by Jerry Sandusky, the assistant football coach convicted of 45 criminal counts of sexual abuse of 10 boys over a period of more than 15 years. According to the Post, 55% of about 1,570 colleges and universities with 1,000 or more students received at least one report in 2012 of a forcible sex offense, which includes forcible rape, forcible sodomy, forcible fondling, or sexual assault with an object.