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91% of college campus administrations did not report incidents of rape and sexual assault in 2014, according to the US Department of Education. That is, only 9-11% of campuses reported any incidents, including data on dating, domestic violence and stalking--newly required to be reported under the Clery Act.

The Clery Act, named after Lehigh University 19-year-old Jeanne Clery who was raped and murdered in her campus residence in 1986, requires all university recipients of federal financial aid to disclose information about crime on campuses.

But the most powerful statistics come from The American Association of University Women (AAUW), a group that “advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research.”

According to newly disclosed data as a result of the Clery Act, not only is one in five women sexually assaulted during college, but the precursor to the staggering 91% of college administrations that did not report rape and sexual assault is of the “about 11,000 campuses disclosing annual crime data, an overwhelming majority of schools certified that in 2014 they did not receive a single report of a rape.”

A University of Missouri Campus Climate Survey conducted earlier in 2015 found that 30.8% of Missouri University female seniors were victims of non consensual, forcible sex. 27.2% of all female undergraduates reported the same. And in all, only 21.2% of the female victims said they reported the incidents to University of Missouri officials.

The climate on American college campuses is clearly hostile to those reporting sexual violence, particularly women.

The Association of American Universities (AAU) Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct also conducted earlier this year breaks down the levels of assault. A question regarding affirmative consent went as follows:

“Since you have been a student at [University], has someone had contact with you involving penetration or oral sex without your active, ongoing voluntary agreement? Examples include someone: initiating sexual activity despite your refusal, ignoring your cues to stop or slow down, went ahead without checking in or while you were still deciding, otherwise failed to obtain your consent...”

11.4% of female undergraduates on the 27 campuses surveyed reported being victims of lack of affirmative consent, compared to 14.8% of transgender, genderqueer, questioning or not listed (TGQN) individuals and just 2.4% of males.

Affirmative consent requires explicit, spoken consent by both parties engaging in sexual contact.

Countless stories have emerged detailing to painful degree the manner in which women on campus are raped or sexually assaulted, yet administrations continue to play dumb. Take the case of a female student at the University of Pittsburgh, who wished to remain anonymous. Speaking to the Washington Post, the women recounted her story of rape.

“I was young...I didn’t understand what happened until later, maybe a few weeks later, when this person made a comment about wanting to see me again and do what he did before. It led me to believe we had some sort of sexual contact.”

She was assaulted and possibly drugged, in no capacity to consent to sexual contact.

“I was in no state of mind” to say yes to sex, she said. “The memory is so, so foggy.”

She said the assailant was “kind, good-looking, church-going, close to his family,” adding “I put too much faith in him.”

Across the country, there are more than 20 active lawsuits challenging university handling of sexual assault. But in general, schools hold disciplinary hearings made up of teachers and students, with administrations preferring to keep trials in-house to avoid scrutiny and loss of prestige.

The need for independent, outside investigators is clear and there is really no excuse for colleges to continue diminishing these cases.