The big news in higher education appears to be a survey by the American Association of Universities that found that one in four female students had been assaulted sexually during her college years

The report found:

Overall, 11.7 percent of student respondents across 27 universities reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force, threats of physical force, or incapacitation since they enrolled at their university.
The incidence of sexual assault and sexual misconduct due to physical force, threats of physical force, or incapacitation among female undergraduate student respondents was 23.1 percent, including 10.8 percent who experienced penetration.

But the Chronicle of Higher Education observed that, because of the problem of reporting (19 percent of those surveyed responded) and because of the fairly broad definition of sexual contact:

So it’s unclear whether the new study will put to rest some skeptics’ persistent questions about the one-in-five statistic or whether, instead, it will raise even more questions about how to define, and measure, unwanted sexual contact.

Even more studies will have to be done.