Sexual Assault Prevalence and Community College Students: Challenges and Promising Practices. (June 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Sexual Assault Prevalence and Community College Students: Challenges and Promising Practices. (June 2020)
- Main Title:
- Sexual Assault Prevalence and Community College Students: Challenges and Promising Practices
- Authors:
- J. Potter, Sharyn
Fox, Nicole
Smith, Delilah
Draper, Nora
Moschella, Elizabeth A.
Moynihan, Mary M. - Other Names:
- Watts Elizabeth A. guest-editor.
Lieberman Lisa D. guest-editor. - Abstract:
- Recently, much research has been dedicated to understanding how to prevent and address the aftermath of sexual assault (SA) on traditional 4-year college and university campuses in the United States. However, less scholarly attention has been paid to 2-year institutions, commonly known as community colleges. This review illuminates the different situational contexts faced by community college students, compared with students at 4-year colleges. These differences are shaped by community college characteristics, student demographics, and geographic location of their students. Community colleges enroll a higher percentage of women, first-generation students, and low-income students than 4-year colleges. Furthermore, community colleges are academic homes to the most racially and ethnically diverse student population, with higher numbers of African Americans, Latinos, immigrants, and nonnative English speakers. These populations (e.g., women, racial minorities, first-generation, low-income) are at a greater risk for SA; yet, 2-year institutions have less funding and resources available to address SA on their campuses. Thus, this article reviews the problem of campus SA on community colleges and highlights the challenges that 2-year institutions face in comparison with those that 4-year institutions face when implementing SA prevention and response strategies. Then, a case study of a 3-year project on one nonresidential and seven community colleges is presented, which illustratesRecently, much research has been dedicated to understanding how to prevent and address the aftermath of sexual assault (SA) on traditional 4-year college and university campuses in the United States. However, less scholarly attention has been paid to 2-year institutions, commonly known as community colleges. This review illuminates the different situational contexts faced by community college students, compared with students at 4-year colleges. These differences are shaped by community college characteristics, student demographics, and geographic location of their students. Community colleges enroll a higher percentage of women, first-generation students, and low-income students than 4-year colleges. Furthermore, community colleges are academic homes to the most racially and ethnically diverse student population, with higher numbers of African Americans, Latinos, immigrants, and nonnative English speakers. These populations (e.g., women, racial minorities, first-generation, low-income) are at a greater risk for SA; yet, 2-year institutions have less funding and resources available to address SA on their campuses. Thus, this article reviews the problem of campus SA on community colleges and highlights the challenges that 2-year institutions face in comparison with those that 4-year institutions face when implementing SA prevention and response strategies. Then, a case study of a 3-year project on one nonresidential and seven community colleges is presented, which illustrates how 2-year institutions can forge relationships with community professionals to address SA on their campuses. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Health education & behavior. Volume 47:Number 1(2020)Supplement
- Journal:
- Health education & behavior
- Issue:
- Volume 47:Number 1(2020)Supplement
- Issue Display:
- Volume 47, Issue 1 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 47
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0047-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 7S
- Page End:
- 16S
- Publication Date:
- 2020-06
- Subjects:
- college health -- health education -- violence and victimization
Health education -- Periodicals
Health behavior -- Periodicals
613.05 - Journal URLs:
- http://heb.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.sagepublications.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/1090198120910988 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1090-1981
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