Dive Brief:

• Seven U.S. Senators are pushing for the U.S. Department of Education to adopt reforms to help combat campus sexual assaults.
• The recommendations: Assign an employee to coordinate both the Title IX and Clery Act sexual violence and criminal complaints; create an annual, anonymous survey of campus sexual assaults; and create a user-friendly, searchable database on the status of all complaints and investigations.
• The Senators — five Democrats and two Republicans — wrote to the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault with their recommendations. The task force is expected to make its own recommendations this week.

Dive Insight:

The gang of seven are: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.). The group cites the statistic that nearly one in five women in college will be the victim of a sexual assault or attempted assault as an undergraduate. The nearly 5,000 assaults reported in 2012 place college women at greater risk of sexual assault than women who don’t attend.