When she was 21 and a junior at Cedarville, she realized that she did not believe in God anymore, and she stopped going to church. She remembered thinking: “I am trying to put on someone else’s clothes. They were not mine.”

Her senior year, Ms. Jones began dating a fellow student, and in one instance, she said, the relationship turned abusive.

“I would classify it as attempted rape, but I did not report it at the time,” she said. “I had said ‘no’ repeatedly, and it didn’t culminate in rape, but there was a lot of unwanted sexual contact before it finally stopped.”

Ms. Jones began having nightmares, and her depression returned. She was eventually told she had post-traumatic stress disorder. She never filed a criminal complaint, and she missed the deadline for a federal Title IX complaint about her case. In 2012, though, she filed a Title IX complaint against Cedarville for general noncompliance, accusing it of not having “prompt and equitable grievance procedures that address sex discrimination.”

Last month, the federal Education Department notified Ms. Jones that her complaint had been resolved because Cedarville had made sufficient changes to its procedures. A spokesman for Cedarville said Thursday that the university had begun making changes “prior to being notified” by the Office for Civil Rights and that it “was encouraging to see that the O.C.R. validated our work during its preliminary investigation.”

Ms. Jones said that she had lost her faith before the sexual assault, but that the school’s Christian culture had made it more difficult for her to seek justice. “One of the reasons I didn’t report it is because my boyfriend knew I was no longer a Christian,” she said. She feared that if he revealed her apostasy, she would be expelled.

One year, she said, the campus abstinence group held a panel on “modesty,” in which the male panelists castigated women for wearing pajamas to the dining hall and thus tempting men. “I was wearing pajamas when I was attacked,” Ms. Jones said. “To attach so much shame to something like pajama pants — how can you address something like sexual assault?”