colleges profit financially off sexual assault

colleges almost never expel men who are found responsible for sexual assault. Our colleagues at The Center for Public Integrity discovered a database of a small number of colleges and universities. These were ones that had applied for federal grants because they wanted to do a better job of fighting sexual assault. And even at these schools, these motivated schools, when a man was found responsible for a sexual assault, just 10 to 25 percent of them were expelled.

"Rape Victims Find Little Help On College Campuses." NPR. February 27, 2010. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124148857

Colleges mishandle sexual assault, then cry about how they need more money to help them handle sexual assault correctly. Then they mishandle sexual assault again, and cry about how they need more money to help them handle sexual assault correctly. And so on, ad infinitum.

The media largely doesn't call universities on it. The media instead generally take whatever press releases they're sent and reproduce them without any critical thinking or investigative journalism.

The federal Department of Education regulates schools under the Clery Act. But it has fined offending schools just six times. Most fines have been small. The biggest — for $350,000 — came against Eastern Michigan University. Administrators there covered up the 2006 rape and murder of a student, 22-year-old Laura Dickinson, letting her parents think she'd died suddenly of natural causes.

Shapiro, Joseph. "Campus Rape Victims: A Struggle For Justice." NPR. February 24, 2010. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124001493

A $350,000 fine for conspiracy to cover up a rape and murder is a slap on the wrist. Where's the prison time for administrators, or loss of accreditation?