School Accounting Architecture Art & Design Business Cinematic Arts College of Letters, Arts & Sciences College of Letters, Arts & Sciences Communication and Journalism DUAL Dentistry Dramatic Arts Education Engineering Gerontology Law Medicine Music Office of the Provost Program Pharmacy Public Policy & Development Social Work Visiting Student 821 731 352 5,083 1,612 6,827 1,338 2,267 2 1,563 483 1,702 7,714 269 859 2,201 956 769 1,018 1,567 3,219 241 1.97 1.76 0.85 12.22 3.88 16.41 3.22 5.45 0.00 3.76 1.16 4.09 18.55 0.65 2.07 5.29 2.30 1.85 2.45 3.77 7.74 0.58 Enrollment Status Undergraduate Graduate Non-degree 17,825 22,545 1,224 42.85 54.20 2.94 Year of for Undergraduate Students Graduate/Non-degree Undergraduate Freshman Undergraduate Sophomore Undergraduate Junior Undergraduate Senior 23,769 2,159 3,993 4,858 6,815 57.15 5.19 9.60 11.68 16.38 Year in Program for Graduate/Professional Students Undergraduate Graduate Year 1 Graduate Year 2 Graduate Year 3 Graduate Year 4 Graduate Year 5 Graduate Year 6+ 19,049 18,115 2,477 1,140 444 198 171 45.80 43.55 5.96 2.74 1.07 0.48 0.41 2.7 Brief Description of the Weighting Procedure for the University of Southern California The initial step was to create a base-weight for each respondent. A census was conducted at the University of Southern California and a base weight of one was assigned to each respondent. The base weight was adjusted to reflect non-response. This adjustment
When interpreting the tables, please note the following: An ‘s’ indicates the cell was suppressed for confidentiality reasons. Any non-numeric symbol indicates was no data for that cell. Comparisons between gender or enrollment status categories are only discussed where those differences were statistically significant at p<0.05. Significance tests were conducted using a t-test assuming independent samples. 3.1 Campus Climate around Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct Students reported on several topics on the campus climate related to sexual assault and sexual misconduct. They were asked about their expectations regarding the response from the university and peers if they were to report a sexual assault or sexual misconduct; whether they had ever witnessed an incident and whether they intervened; whether they perceive sexual assault or sexual misconduct as a problem on campus; and the likelihood that they would be victimized. Response to a report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct. Students were asked about what might happen if someone were to report a sexual assault or sexual misconduct to an official at University of Southern California (Table 1.1). Overall, 52.7 percent of all students believe that it is very or extremely likely that the victim would be supported by other students in making a report. Male students are more optimistic than females, with 55.4 percent of male undergraduate students and 59.3 percent of male graduate students indicating that it is very or extremely likely that other students would support the victim in making a report. This compared to 42.3 percent of female undergraduate students and 53.4 percent of female graduate students. Overall, fewer TGQN students believe that it is very or extremely likely that a student would be supported by other students after making a report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct. Students were asked about the likelihood that the alleged perpetrator or their associates would retaliate against the victim in response to a report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct. Overall, 22.7 percent indicated that it is very or extremely likely that retaliation would occur. Male students are less inclined to believe that a report would result in retaliation, with 20.9 percent of male undergraduate students and 17.5 percent of male graduate students indicating that it is very likely or extremely likely that this would occur. This compared to 30.6 percent of female undergraduate students and 22.0 percent of female graduate students). Overall, a notably higher proportion of TGQN students believe that there would be retaliation against the victim in the event of a report.
likely to indicate that the offender was a friend or acquaintance (46.1% of female undergraduates and 32.9% of male undergraduates vs. 23.6% of female graduate students and 16.4% of male graduate students). Table 5.4 presents the prevalence of sexual harassment, intimate partner violence, and stalking by the characteristics of the victim. For all of these types of sexual misconduct, students report having been victimized more often than heterosexual youth (55.3% vs. 35.7% for sexual harassment, 14.2% vs. 6.6% for intimate partner violence, and 6.2% vs 2.9% for stalking). NOTE: TABLES 5.1b through 5.3b ARE NOT DISCUSSED
Table A1-1. The AAU Survey Design Team AAU Survey Design Team Members Melanie Boyd Yale University Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Director of Office of Gender and Campus Culture Russell Carey Brown University Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Melissa A. Clark Brown University Professor of Epidemiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology; Associate Director, Center for Population and Health and Clinical Epidemiology Nancy Deutsch University of Virginia Associate Professor K. Einarson Cornell University Assistant Director, Office Institutional Research & Planning Lily Guillot Svensen Yale University Research Analyst for the Office of Institutional Research; member of Yale’s Title IX Steering Committee Christi Hurt University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Director, Carolina Women's Center Debra Kalmuss Columbia University Professor, Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health David Laibson Harvard University Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics Sandra Martin University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Chair of Survey Design Team) Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health Stephen Minicucci Consortium on Financing Higher Education Director of Research Christina Morell University of Virginia Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Lindsay Orchowski University Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research) Jagruti “Jag” Patel MIT Associate Director of Institutional Research Nora Cate Schaeffer University of Wisconsin-Madison Sewell Bascom Professor of Sociology Faculty Director, University of Wisconsin Survey Center Schultz Robinson University of Virginia Institutional Assessment Office Stephanie S. Spangler Yale University Deputy Provost for Health Affairs and Academic Integrity Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology