Dive Brief:
- Columbia University is being pressured to say how many students have been found responsible for sexual misconduct and sexual assault, and how they were punished.
- More than 650 students have signed a petition calling on the school to disclose the information.
- The law requires colleges to disclose how many sex offenses were reported on campus, but not whether they led to investigation or punishment.
Dive Insight:
The students are trying to put pressure on Columbia by highlighting that other schools do release the information. As the article notes: "Yale University releases this type of data on its own accord, though it opened the school to criticism. Similarly, the University of Connecticut recently released a tally of how many students were accused of and punished for sexual misconduct."