“Know Your IX” Challenges Colleges to Address Rape Culture

[redqueen]

Far too many college women are victims of sexual assault. ABC News reports one in four women is raped during her college matriculation and nine in 10 of those women know their attackers.

The Steubenville case shined a national spotlight on this troubling issue. Now, some college students are bringing the fight against rape culture to their institution’s administrators. Activists from Amherst College, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Yale University, Occidental College, Northwestern University, and Rice University are using their voices to raise awareness about rape and offer solutions to prevent it.

The “Know Your IX” project is a collaborative effort designed to implement systemic change on college campuses throughout the United States. The name is derived from Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments. One of the lesser-known components of that bill is the removal of federal funds from colleges that ignore or conceal sexual harassment or assault.

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Know Your IX is a campaign that aims to educate every college student in the U.S. about his or her rights under Title IX by the start of the Fall 2013 academic term. Armed with information, survivors will be able to advocate for themselves during their schools’ grievance proceedings and, if Title IX guarantees are not respected, to file a complaint against their colleges with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. When colleges are confronted with their students’ knowledge and thirst for justice, they will be forced to take proactive steps to end sexual violence, ensuring every student a safe educational environment.

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http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2013/05/know-your-ix-challenges-colleges-to-address-rape-culture/

The project is now fully funded.

[redqueen]

1. Self kick because ALL women should know about this law. nt

[ismnotwasm]

2. Yup I was reading a little about the stories behind his recently

Think we should pin it up with the resources?

[redqueen]

3. Maybe just talk about it more often.

It's been used more and more often in recent years as a way to try to get colleges to stop treating rape like it isn't a serious crime, but it has also been beneficial in so many other ways.

Anyone wanting to learn more would find these sites very informative: http://www.titleix.info/ http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=93 http://www.feminist.org/education/titleix.asp

[MadrasT]

4. What a great project.

I was unaware that was part of Title IX.

[redqueen]

5. Oh yeah. Title IX requires schools to provide a safe learning environment for all students.

By not treating rape as a serious crime, they are not providing a safe learning environment for women.