Colleges and Universities should work to help limit the norms of rape culture and get students and staff more educated and make punishments more strict.
I think this subject is very big being that we are in college. This is something that every college and university deals with. But I feel schools should fix the way this problem is dealt with. For example, at Penn State we get emails every day about a rape that has happened on campus. These emails come in so much that we are desensitized to the topic. We just expect it to happen. Also the place where these sexual assaults happen are just given a slap on the wrist or a warning, then continue to do the same thing. This is like an on-going cycle. There are also other colleges that make it very difficult for students to even report a rape. Big institutions that don’t want to tarnish their names tend to ignore big problems like these.
Some research questions would include:
- Sexual assaults each year at big colleges
- Of those sexual assaults reported, how many students are expelled or suspended?
- Comparison of students expelled from academic violation and students expelled for sexual assaults