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Students feel safer on UH campuses, according to latest student survey

from UH News, May 4, 2022

Students at the University of Hawaiʻi 10-campus system feel safer overall from sexual harassment and gender-based violence, according to the latest and third biennial student campus climate survey on the prevalence of sexual harassment, domestic and dating violence, stalking, and non-consensual sexual contact. 

2021 UH Student Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence Report

2021 Campus Climate Survey Report Highlights

About 17% of 40,122 adult students completed the survey, the highest response rate in UH’s three biennial campus climate surveys, even with the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey asked students about their experience while enrolled at UH. Specifically during the fall 2020 semester and the first two months of the spring 2021 semester, four out of five students reported less in-person contact at the time of the survey as the majority of courses were online due to COVID-19. 

The key findings of the 2021 survey include: 

Gender-based violence and harassment prevalence has decreased since the previous survey across all categories: Sexual Harassment, Stalking, Dating & Domestic Violence/Intimate Partner Violence, and Non-Consensual Sexual Contact.

Overall perceived risk at UH for sexual assault/harassment is down, 2.9% in 2021 and 2019 compared to 3.4% in 2017. 

Students had greater awareness of Title IX resources (82%), and 57% of students were aware of their Title IX Coordinator (up from 55% in 2019).

More students than in the previous survey have found Title IX training extremely or very useful: 61% (up from 59% in 2019 and 51% in 2017).

Risk factors/vulnerable groups (Transgender/ Genderqueer/ Questioning or Non-conforming students; female/women students; students with disabilities; LGBTQ+ students) remain consistent with past UH climate surveys and nationwide trends.

The majority of student bystanders took action in two of three gender violence scenarios: 

76.4% of students say they intervened when they suspected a friend was sexually assaulted; 

53.6% say they intervened when they witnessed a drunk person heading for a sexual encounter; and, 

42% said they intervened when witnessing sexually violent or harassing behavior.

“Though these findings are very encouraging, especially the decrease in cases and greater awareness of student resources, we still have room for improvement and work to do to provide safer discrimination-free campuses,” said UH President David Lassner. “I am confident that each campus will utilize the more granular data to increase awareness of rights and resources and develop other programs to improve their campus environments.”

The 2021 student survey is helping UH campuses assess the effectiveness and update the action plans developed by the individual campuses after the inaugural 2017 survey and 2019 survey. Regularly surveying students about sexual harassment and gender-based violence is considered a national best practice, and UH was among the first in the nation to survey an entire university system. The Hawaiʻi-based OmniTrak Group Inc. conducted the survey.

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