According to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is prevalent on American college campuses in general, just over 5 percent think it’s a problem on their campuses.
As Five Thirty Eight points out, this kind of “not on my campus” thinking is pretty delusional, given the widespread attention paid to campus sexual assault and its mishandling at dozens of schools in recent years. But it’s in line with what we already know: that college administrations tend to treat rape as a PR problem that’s best not acknowledged unless absolutely forced to.
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