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| https://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton-introduces-resolution-to-designate-september-as-national-campus-0 | Norton Introduces Resolution to Designate September as National Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Month | 2020-08-31 | 2020 | 2020-08 | Democrat | House | DC | Eleanor Norton | N000147 | norton.house.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced her annualresolutionto designate the month of September as National CampusSexualAssaultAwareness Month, and said that the vastly different campus class structure this year due to the pandemic should not obscure the importance of ensuring students have safe campuses to return to, both now with some students returning to campuses and after the pandemic recedes. In recent years,sexualassaults on college campuses have been on the rise. Even though many colleges are starting classes online this year, the increase insexualassaults we were seeing points up the continuing importance of ourresolutionon this issue, Norton said. Norton has introduced thisresolutionfor the past several years to highlight the problem ofsexualassaults on campuses. In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the exposure of Jeffrey Epstein and the #MeToo movement, Norton said her determination to continue to speak out has only grown, and that we must change behavior at the earliest stages of the lives of young men and women. Theresolutionfollows. RESOLUTION Expressing support for the designation of September 2020 as National CampusSexualAssaultAwareness Month. Whereas some colleges and universities are now receiving students in person for the academic year, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues; Whereas 19 percent of college women and 6 percent of college men will be survivors ofsexualassaultover the course of their undergraduate careers, with little or no change to this high rate annually; Whereas freshmen and sophomores in college are at a greater risk of beingsexuallyassaulted than juniors or seniors; Whereas college students are at a higher risk ofsexualassaultduring the first few months of school, with more than 50 percent of collegesexualassaults occurring in either August, September, October, or November; Whereas 3 in 4 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) college students have experiencedsexualharassment and 9 percent of LGBT college students have experiencedsexualassault; Whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that both middle school and high school students are increasingly experiencingsexualharassment,sexualassault, andsexualviolence, with 30 percent of femalesexualassaultsurvivors reporting that they were first attacked between the ages of 11 and 17; Whereas many college students are survivors of incapacitatedassault, in which they aresexuallyassaulted while drugged, drunk, passed out, or otherwise incapacitated; Whereas these survivors often know their attackers; Whereas less than 5 percent of rapes and attempted rapes of college students are reported to campus authorities or local law enforcement; Whereas collegesexualassaultsurvivors are likely to tell someone they know, most often a friend, about their experience; Whereas 40 percent of collegesexualassaultsurvivors feared reprisal by the perpetrator; Whereas less than 5 percent of college men account for 90 to 95 percent of the rapes on college campuses; Whereas many collegesexualassaultsurvivors fear poor treatment by campus or law enforcement authorities, or even lack knowledge of the reporting process; Whereas approximately 8 percent of colleges and universities still do not allow confidential reporting ofsexualassaults to campus authorities; Whereas 21 percent of colleges and universities provide nosexualassaultresponse training for members of their faculty and staff; Whereas more than 30 percent of colleges and universities do not provide anysexualassaulttraining for students; Whereas approximately 41 percent of colleges and universities have not conducted a singlesexualassaultinvestigation in the last 5 years; Whereas more than 90 percent of colleges and universities state thatsexualassaultsurvivors on their campuses have access to community survivor assistance and advocacy programs, yet only 51 percent of the colleges and universities reported utilizing these services in their team approach; Whereas most colleges and universities fail to provide access to a specially trainedSexualAssaultNurse Examiner (SANE); Whereas law enforcement officials at 30 percent of colleges and universities receive no training on how to respond to reports ofsexualviolence; Whereas more than 70 percent of colleges and universities do not have protocols regarding how the institution and local law enforcement should work together to respond tosexualviolence; Whereas 33 percent of colleges and universities failed to provide training to dispel rape myths to persons adjudicatingsexualassaultclaims; Whereas 43 percent of the Nation's largest colleges and universities have students assisting in adjudicatingsexualassaultcases, which creates privacy and conflict-of-interest concerns; Whereas 22 percent of colleges and universities allow athletic department oversight ofsexualviolence cases involving student athletes; Whereas more than 10 percent of colleges and universities do not have a title IX coordinator, as required by Federal law; Whereas many collegesexualassaultsurvivors experience confusion over how to report asexualassault, are unsure of acceptable standards ofsexualconduct and definitions of rape andsexualassault, and fear punishment for activities preceding somesexualassaults, such as underage drinking; Whereas only 16 percent of colleges and universities reported conducting confidential climate surveys regarding behaviors that constitute or are associated withsexualassault; Whereas only 22 percent of colleges and universities providesexualviolence training targeted at the Greek system and only 37 percent provide training targeted at student athletes; Whereas 21 percent of the Nation's largest private colleges and universities reported not independently investigating all claims ofsexualassaultthat they conveyed to the Department of Education; Whereas only 10 to 25 percent of the perpetrators of collegesexualassaults were permanently expelled; Whereas only 10 percent of reported college rape cases result in criminal charges against the defendant; Whereas survivors of campussexualassaults are more likely to make changes in their lives, such as changing a college major, changing campus housing, and dropping a class, as a result of theassault; Whereas over 90 percent of colleges and universities do not have an affirmative consent policy regardingsexualrelations; Whereas the Trump administration has undermined key protections against campussexualassaultprovided by title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972; and Whereas September 2020, when many students begin or return to college, is an appropriate month to designate as National CampusSexualAssaultAwareness Month: Now, therefore, be it Resolved,That the House of Representatives supports the designation of National CampusSexualAssaultAwareness Month. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |