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Caitlyn J. Zang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Sexual violence on college and university campuses is a significant public health concern for educators in the context of postsecondary institutions across the United States. One of the populations on college campuses most at-risk of being victimized by sexual assault is women within a sorority (Mohler-Kuo et al., 2004). Partly in response to…
Descriptors: Sororities, Females, Higher Education, Crime Prevention
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Ispa-Landa, Simone; Thomas, Sara E. – Sociology of Education, 2023
Landmark research from before the 2010s shows that college women rarely held institutions responsible for allowing rape-prone party contexts to persist and failing to support survivors. Yet the college landscape has changed profoundly since these studies were published, with prominent anti-rape campaigns and new guidelines to Title IX policy. To…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation
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Mahoney, Patricia; Gielen, Andrea C.; Bailey, Maryanne M.; Gabel, Colby – Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: A Haddon Matrix analysis was used to systematically review literature evaluating college campus sexual assault prevention programs to identify research gaps and intervention opportunities. Methods: Articles included were published from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2017; indexed in PubMed, PsycInfo, or Scopus; involving…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Undergraduate Students
Beuermann, Diether; Jackson, C. Kirabo; Navarro-Sola, Laia; Pardo, Francisco – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018
Is a school's impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value school impacts on high-stakes tests, longer-run outcomes, or both? To answer the first question, we apply quasi-experimental methods to data from Trinidad and Tobago and estimate the causal impacts of individual schools on several…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Parent Attitudes, Outcome Measures, Outcomes of Education
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Wagner, Kathryn Drury – Journal of College Admission, 2017
When parents of today's students were applying to colleges, they researched factors like location, financial aid, and majors. Physical safety was barely on the radar--it was assumed. A lot has changed since then, and today's prospective students and their parents are savvier about campus safety issues. College-age women are the demographic most…
Descriptors: Females, Victims of Crime, College Students, Crime Prevention
Universities UK, 2016
This report summarises the evidence considered by the Universities UK (UUK) Taskforce to examine violence against women, harassment and hate crime affecting university students, and makes a series of recommendations for universities and UUK. These recommendations cover both prevention activities and how universities can respond to these issues…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Females, Sexual Harassment