New Report Calls for Increased Sexual Assault Prevention Efforts at Harvard University

A Harvard University task force has recommended a significant increase in sexual assault prevention efforts on campus, according to a report submitted Monday to University President Drew Faust Monday. In the report, the task force, comprised of professors, administrators and students appointed by the university president, recommends students receive annual sexual assault prevention training courses that “encompass values, alcohol use, and healthy sexuality, as well as policies.” “Education must be delivered not in the spirit of a bureaucratic box to be checked but as lessons that will be attended to, taken seriously, and internalized,” the 20-page report states. The task force focused many of its recommendations on Harvard’s undergraduate population and the College—the only one of Harvard’s schools specifically mentioned.

・ From Boston.com