Should College Rankings Include Rape And Assault Statistics?

[ismnotwasm]

The Princeton Review's college rankings can tell you which schools offer good value, where to find the swankiest dorms and whether a campus looks like something out of Reefer Madness. What those rankings don't tell you is whether your college pick has a rape and sexual assault problem.

The feminist group UltraViolet this week called on the Princeton Review to include such statistics in its publications. That information, UltraViolet argues in an online petition, "will motivate colleges across the country to get serious about the epidemic of campus rape."

The Princeton Review says that it will now link to campus security pages on its website, information that it has not previously included.

"Over the 2013-2014 academic year as news reports of crime — including very disturbing reports of sexual assaults — on college campuses increased, we look to ways we could responsibly collect and report information that would be helpful to the students, parents and advisers we serve," Rob Franek, Princeton Review's senior vice president and publisher, said in a statement.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/05/23/315128717/should-college-rankings-include-rape-and-assault-numbers

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Yep

It wasn't "statistics"per se in 1991- but my parents wouldn't let me go to Syracuse. They had heard too much.

[ismnotwasm]

3. Good for them

What a sad, sorry state of affairs that this needs to be considered

[JustAnotherGen]

6. My dad watched the movie Taken a few years ago

He promptly called is 35 years old daughter to tell her he would do the exact same thing.

My point - its a shame that the same concern exists today - that did in 1991. That he felt compelled to call me on a Saturday night while he was leaving the theater with my mom . . .

I don't think he knew the phrase "rape culture" but he knew its meaning. He got it.

[redqueen]

2. Figures it was UltraViolet

I think a social campaign like Everyday Sexism would be more helpful. Somehow I don't quite trust colleges and universities to compile and publish information accurately if it reflects negatively on them. I trust women to report their experiences though.

[TexasProgresive]

4. Yes and violent crimes, rape included, should be

investigated by city and or county police not by campus clowns, uh, cops. The administration should have no say in the investigations unless they are somehow directly involved.

What these institutions do in their own interests to keep things in the dark to prevent "scandal" should be considered some sort of criminal mischief punishable by law.

This is no different than what churches and schools (primary and secondary) do in covering up sexual predators.

[ismnotwasm]

5. Excellent post

[theHandpuppet]

7. Amen to that!

I agree with every word.