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Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of American College Students 2022, Sexual Harassment on Campus, ISBN 979-8-88517-035-2    

This study looks at the views of  a representative sample of nearly 1,200 college students at four year colleges in the USA on the incidence of sexual harassment on campus, with separate data sets for harassment by students, by faculty, and by college staff.  The study also looks closely at what students think of their college administration's response to sexual harassment, evaluating its fairness and efficacy. In addition it presents their views about appropriateness of the definition of sexual harassment commonly used by college administration.  The study helps its readers to answer questions such as:  what percentage of students have been harassed by a fellow student? By a faculty member? By Non-faculty college staff? What percentage of students have ever lodged a formal complaint of sexual harassment? How satisfied are students with how college administration is handling this issue? 

Just a few of this 110-page report's many findings are that: 

• 10.62% of students sampled say that they have been sexually harassed by a fellow student.

• Students from wealthier backgrounds tended to be more likely than others to feel that the college judicial process was slanted in favor of the accused. 

• Students of Asian ancestry were much more likely that those of other racial or ethnic groups to have lodged a sexual harassment complaint; African-American students, the least likely. 

• More than twice as many female than male students feel that the definition of sexual harassment commonly used by college administration was too narrow and did not encompass all harassing behavior.

Data from a nationally representative sample of nearly 1,200 students in the report is broken out by more than 20 personal and institutional variables, so, for example, readers can get specific data on incidence of sexual harassment for first year students vs. sophomores, juniors or seniors, or for students in level 1 research universities vs. doctoral institutions, or for male vs. female or vs. transgender students, or for business/economics majors vs fine arts majors, etc., etc. 

Breakouts include age, year of school standing, major or intended major, religion, gender, sexual orientation, income level, SAT/ACT scores, college grades, regional origins, race/ethnicity, level of school tuition, size of school of institution attended and many other variables. This is a critical resource for policy makers in academia as well as a unique data source for social scientists and other studying higher education.  
For a table of contents, the questionnaire and an excerpt – visit our website at:  https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=696