Not an issue unique to Stony Brook

Stony Brook University is not the only higher education institution in New York currently under review for Title IX violations by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. As of March 4, 2015, there are 12 others, making New York the state with the highest number of open investigations.

Each institution under investigation for Title IX compliance issues by OCR reported a number of forcible sexual assaults to the Department of Education. As defined by the DoE:

The diagrams below show the number of forcible sexual assaults for each institution under investigation by OCR, the information for which was obtained using the Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool on the DoE website. Both diagrams are organized in chronological order of when OCR opened its investigation into each institution.

The bubble chart above shows the relationship between each institution’s enrollment total and how many reported cases of sexual assault occurred for the three-year period of 2011 through 2013. For instance, hovering your cursor over the first bubble reveals that CUNY Hunter College has an enrollment total of 23,019 students and a three-year total of seven reported cases of sexual assault.

For each institution of higher education in New York under investigation by the OCR for Title IX violations, the chart below breaks down the total number of  cases of forcible sexual assaults reported in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Clicking a year in the legend below the chart deactivates that year and allows for a year-by-year comparison. Selecting the year again reactivates it.

(Pace University’s New York City campus is under investigation by OCR for Title IX violations but is not represented here due to a lack of reported cases. According to the Huffington Post, the review was opened on July 22, 2014 due to a complaint filed by the victim of an alleged sexual assault. The DoE’s website shows the university’s NYC campus has no reported instances of forcible sexual assaults.)