A student tells her RA or coach that she was sexually assaulted, but that person doesn’t alert campus authorities. A staff member dissuades a student from officially reporting an assault by warning her how grueling the process will be. A college finds an alleged perpetrator responsible for an assault without considering text messages from his accuser that don’t refer to their encounter as an assault. All of those are real cases that got colleges into legal trouble in recent years, according to a report released on Tuesday by United Educators, an insurance and risk-management firm. The company and 104 of its member institutions spent more than $17-million from 2011 to 2013 defending against and resolving students’ claims, including lawsuits and federal complaints, in cases of alleged sexual assault.

January 28, 2015 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education