Twenty Students Per Week: The Report of the University Senate Task Force to Address Sexual Violence and Survivor Support November 5, 2014 University of Oregon Twenty Students Per Week: The Report of the University Senate Task Force to Address Sexual Violence and Survivor Support Co-Chairs: Carol Stabile, School of Journalism and Communication and Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Randy Sullivan, Chemistry Members: Jane Brubaker, Trades/Maintenance Coordinator (Campus Operations) Renae DeSautel, Sexual Violence Response Coordinator (Dean of Students Office) David Espinoza, Director, Testing Center Sheryl Eyster, Associate Dean of Students (Dean of Students Office) Jennifer Freyd, Statutory Faculty Senator; Professor (Psychology) Ibrahim Gassama, Goodwin Senior Faculty Fellow; Professor (Law) Beatriz Gutierrez, ASUO President; Undergraduate (Ethnic Studies) Jocelyn Hollander, Professor and Department Head (Sociology) Robert Kyr, University Senate President; Philip H. Knight Professor (Music) – ex officio Andrew Lubash, Student Senator; Truman Scholar; Undergraduate (Political Science) Amanda Marshall, United States Attorney for the District of Oregon Bruce MacAllister, UO Ombudsperson – ex officio Sarah Ray Rondot, Graduate Teaching Fellow (Women's and Gender Studies); Graduate Student (English) Cheyney Ryan, Professor emeritus (Philosophy & Law); Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Helena Schlegel, Undergraduate (Spanish) Carly Smith, Graduate Teaching Fellow; Graduate Student (Psychology) Sandy Weintraub, Director of Student Conduct and Community Standards (Dean of Students Office) Working Groups: Athletics: TBD Data collection: David Espinoza, Carly Smith Climate survey: Jennifer Freyd, Carly Smith Faculty-Student Relationship Policy: Ibrahim Gassama, Bruce MacAllister, Cheyney Ryan Fraternity and Sorority Life: TBD Grievance Procedures: John Bonine, Renae DeSautel, and Ibrahim Gassama (advised by Bruce MacAllister) Mandatory course: Randy Sullivan, Sarah Ray Rondot, Bonnie Mann Prevention efforts: Jocelyn Hollander, Sheryl Eyster, Kerry Frazee, Abigail Leeder, Jeff Todahl Required reporting policy review: John Bonine, Renae DeSautel, and Ibrahim Gassama (advised by Bruce MacAllister) Sexual harassment: Cheyney Ryan, Ibrahim Gassama (advised by Bruce MacAllister) Twenty Students Per Week: The Report of the University Senate Task Force to Address Sexual Violence and Survivor Support TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ......................................................................................................................................... 1 SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................................................... 3 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................... 4 RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................................................................................ 6 1. CRITICAL POLICY CHANGES ...................................................................................................................... 6 1.1. Create and provide space for an Office to Address Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: ....................... 6 1.2. Establish a Senate Standing Committee on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: ................................... 9 1.3. Engage with and fund the UO Campus Climate Survey: ....................................................................... 10 1.4. Ask the President and the Board to instruct the Athletics Department’s senior leadership to cooperate with, and fully participate in, the Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee’s efforts to address sexual violence issues as they pertain to athletics: .................................................................... 12 1.5. Suspend plans to expand Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) Recommendations until problems have been identified, studied and addressed:.................................................................................................. 13 2. PREVENTION AND EDUCATION ................................................................................................................. 17 2.1. Develop proposals for mandatory courses addressing gender, sexuality, and social inequality: ........... 17 2.2. Provide additional funds for ongoing prevention efforts: ...................................................................... 17 2.3. Title IX Education and Training: ........................................................................................................... 18 2.4. Publish and disseminate a booklet on sexual violence resources for faculty and staff: ......................... 19 2.5. Coordinate programming and publicity aimed at sexual violence prevention: ...................................... 20 3. ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES ..................................................................................................................... 20 3.1. Review policy on required (mandatory) reporting, OAR 003 0025, Subsection 2A: ............................ 20 3.2. Conduct an audit of AAEO, review sexual harassment policies and “Grievance Procedures,” OAR 571-003: ................................................................................................................................................. 21 3.3. Revise “University of Oregon Conflicts of Interest and Abuses of Power: Sexual or Romantic Relationships with Students” Policy: ..................................................................................................... 21 3.4. Provide the Ombuds office with confidentiality: ................................................................................... 22 3.5. Reconvene the Presidential Task Force on Alcohol and Other Drug Use: ............................................ 22 3.6. Memoranda of Understanding: .............................................................................................................. 23 APPENDIX A Initial Recommendations for Immediate Action APPENDIX B UO Senate Standing Committee on Sexual and Gender Violence November 5, 2014 i Twenty Students Per Week: The Report of the University Senate Task Force to Address Sexual Violence and Survivor Support EXECUTIVE SUMMARY According to the Centers for Disease Control and the White House, “One in five women is sexually assaulted in college,” most often by men they know.1 Preliminary results of a survey at the University of Oregon show similar numbers, but with even higher numbers of women subjected to unwanted sexual physical contact by the time they graduate.2 More than 10,000 undergraduate women are enrolled at the University of Oregon. Applying the percentages from campus surveys, 2,000 or more of our undergraduate women experience rape or attempted rape during their college careers. Nearly 4,000 experience some kind of unwanted sexual contact.3 If we divide these numbers conservatively by five years (because undergraduates on average take more than four years to graduate), 400 or more additional women suffer rape or attempted rape for the first time every year – an average of 12 or more additional women during every one of the 33 weeks that school is in normal session. Including all nonconsensual sexual contact, the average is more than 20 women harmed every week who had not previously been assaulted during their university education. The figures on sexual harassment are even higher: 57% of female undergraduates and 37% of male undergraduates report experiencing one or more incidents of sexual harassment during their time here.4 Nearly half of UO’s undergraduate women will report some form of sexual violence during their years at UO.5 The problem of widespread campus sexual violence is not a new one, but national attention to the problem, inspired by campus activists, scholars, lawyers, politicians and the leadership provided by the White House has broken the silence and secrecy upon which sexual violence 1 Not Alone: The First Report of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault (Washington, D.C.: The White House, April 2014), 2, http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/report_0.pdf; Sexual Violence: Data Sources, Data Sheet (Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control, 2014), http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/SV- DataSheet-a.pdf, 2 Jennifer Freyd, The UO Sexual Violence and Institutional Behavior Campus Survey (Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon, 2014), preliminary and updated results at http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/campus/. The total number of assaults is even higher, because a number of students experience more than one assault while at the University of Oregon. 3 Among females in their fourth year or beyond at the University of Oregon, 22% have been raped or subjected to attempted rape, while 38.5% have suffered all forms on nonconsensual sexual contact. Ibid. Applying these percentages applied to a population of 10,000 undergraduate women at the university, an estimated 2,200 and 3,850 women already are, or will be, in these categories. 4 Freyd, The UO Sexual Violence and Institutional Behavior Campus Survey, 2014. 5 Importantly, these figures do not include graduate students, faculty members and staff impacted by campus sexual violence. More research is required to assess the impact of sexual violence on all members of the UO community. November 5, 2014 1 Twenty Students Per Week: The Report of the University Senate