Dive Brief:
- Less than half of the members of the Association of American Universities will join in its survey on campus sexual assault.
- Dartmouth College, which is not a member of the association, will join the 27 institutions from the group in the survey.
- One reason for organizing the analysis was to try to discourage Congress from conducting its own annual sexual assault inquiry, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
Dive Insight:
One excuse provided by association members for not participating is that they are planning their own surveys. They also may have been discouraged by a letter from 16 sexual assault researchers sent to university heads in November, which urged them not to participate because the results wouldn’t be transparent, and thus not subjected to proper scientific scrutiny. The universities that will participate have more than 800,000 students.