The rate of sexual assault and harassment at CU Boulder is up, according to recently released results from the 2024 Sexual Assault and Related Harms Survey.
Of the 5,519 surveyed undergraduate women, 18% reported being sexually assaulted since becoming a CU Boulder student. That’s up from the 15% who reported being sexually assaulted in 2021, but down from 28% in 2015, the past two times the survey has been conducted.
Sexual harassment is also up, with 34% of undergraduate women reporting being sexually harassed, compared with 19% in 2021 and 28% in 2015. The sexual harassment definition included additional behaviors in the 2024 survey, which when included, 44% of women undergrads said they had been harassed.
Reports of sexual assault and harassment were also up for men on campus, with 4% of men surveyed reporting being assaulted (compared with 2% in 2021 and 6% in 2015) and 11% reporting being harassed (compared with 5% in 2021 and 9% in 2015).
CU Boulder’s Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance (OIEC) administered the survey during the fall 2024 semester. It has been conducted twice before, in 2015 and 2021.
Nearly 30% of all students participated in the 2024 survey, according to the university. Moving forward, CU Boulder plans to conduct the survey every four years.
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