To Curb Sexual Assaults, Colleges Give Students Alternative Reporting Options
A presentation in March at a summit for college administrators caught Peggy Fitch’s eye. As Title IX coordinator and vice president for student development at Central College in Iowa, she had noticed a numerical discrepancy between the sexual assaults reported to her office and those that showed up in the institution’s campus-climate and safety data. "We have a gap," she had thought to herself, "between the number of students who are experiencing this problem and the number who come to me." So when she saw a presentation for the sexual-assault reporting website Callisto, she decided the system "could be just what we need" to remedy the problem.