Sonoma State University
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How could the school where I feel so supported also have one of the worst sexual assault report rates of all California State University campuses?
A detailed audit conducted and released by the state of California on July 18 has uncovered the mishandling of sexual assault reports and investigations on CSU campuses.
Sonoma State University, where I attend school, has a student body of around 7,000. The campus had 43 reports of sexual harassment between 2016 and 2022 while the much larger California State University, Los Angeles, received 39 reports with around 27,000 students. California State University Maritime Academy is the only institution with a worse rate, at 10 reports with 880 students, as detailed in the audit.
The audit closely reviewed a sample of 40 of these harassment reports in the CSU system; 21 of them were investigated by the Chancellor’s…
