Chico
State’s 2014 spring semester is coming to a close, and so to are the days when
the result of the sexual crimes audit will finally be released. However, the
release of the audit itself does not necessarily mean the end of sexual assault issues among college campuses in the United States.
In fact,
reports within the last few months suggests, that the four colleges investigated in the audit is just the beginning of a nationwide crack down that
the U.S. government are planning, to tackle the issue of sex crimes on universities
across the nation.
Earlier
this month, the White House announced that they are going to do another round
of investigation within the next couple of months. The upcoming audit will be at a much larger scale,
and it will involve 55 college campuses. Among the schools chosen is Butte
College, a community college located in the city of Chico.
Similar to
the current audit that is being done to Chico State, the investigation that is
going to happen will investigate the universities’ procedures, policies and
implementation of sexual assault policies, and an examination of each school’s Clery Report and Title IX
documents.
What it Means:
The
upcoming audit should benefit the four schools currently being audited on some
of the stigma that has been attached to the current investigation. It will help
get rid of the assumptions and questions as to why Chico State, and the 3 other
schools involved were chosen for the audit.
It should
also benefit sex crimes victims (past and future), in knowing that the
government is doing what it can to address this issue that has plagued college
campuses across the nation.
This new
development will help motivate students that were victimized by this particular
crime to come forward, and speak about their experience, without worrying about
the repercussions, and whether or not, they will get the proper assistance they
need.
To learn more about the new audit that was initiated, here
is one report from the L.A. Times that talks about it:
Here is a new website that the United States government has
created addressing the issue of sexual assault in college campuses:
