Introduction There is a problem that is looming over our society that not every many humans would like to talk about. Some say it is an epidemic, some say it is a women’s issue, others say it is not a problem at all. Just a problem made up by the media. Whatever the masses would like to say about it, the basic terminology is sexual assault or gender-based violence. There has been debate on the type of policies that should be in place for combating sexual assault on college campuses. Every college campus has different sexual assault policies; however, Minnesota, New York and California have many policies for all their colleges. The main issue with policy surrounding sexual assault is no one wants to talk about it because it is very uncomfortable.
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The policy included statewide amnesty policy, open access and connection to law enforcement and comprehensive procedures and guidelines (“Enough is Enough”). New York has taken the fear of getting in trouble for getting help disappear and making all the colleges to be on the same page when it comes to procedures and guidelines. This policy brings comfort to the victims and helps their healing process. New York is using fear to help prevent sexual assault another policy they have is having a student that has been expelled or suspended for sexual assault on their transcript (Williams). By doing this every job that requires to their academic transcript will also be able to see that they sexual assaulted another human. This could impact their careers because if there are women in the office, which every office has them they are less likely to hire that candidate for the job. Businesses have the simple safeties in mind while hiring new candidates. Who would want to hire someone with that on their academic record? The answer is not every many. So, with this being part of every school in New York that makes students think twice and get educated about consent and sexual …show more content…
The fact is that some states are leading the fight and some are doing the bare minimum. For example, Minnesota is lacking in their efforts only making policies of about processes that are already being implicated on most college campuses. They are showing the population they are doing something but they are not doing anything. It does help that now all colleges are on the same page, but by making it required to do the training there are faults in this. For example, some students do not take it seriously or they pay other people to take them for them. The idea behind the training is great the execution is lacking. Even when the school makes it a requirement to go to class and do an online training. The teachers that are teaching the classes are not trained properly so nothing is taken seriously or nothing is being learned through this
The policy included statewide amnesty policy, open access and connection to law enforcement and comprehensive procedures and guidelines (“Enough is Enough”). New York has taken the fear of getting in trouble for getting help disappear and making all the colleges to be on the same page when it comes to procedures and guidelines. This policy brings comfort to the victims and helps their healing process. New York is using fear to help prevent sexual assault another policy they have is having a student that has been expelled or suspended for sexual assault on their transcript (Williams). By doing this every job that requires to their academic transcript will also be able to see that they sexual assaulted another human. This could impact their careers because if there are women in the office, which every office has them they are less likely to hire that candidate for the job. Businesses have the simple safeties in mind while hiring new candidates. Who would want to hire someone with that on their academic record? The answer is not every many. So, with this being part of every school in New York that makes students think twice and get educated about consent and sexual …show more content…
The fact is that some states are leading the fight and some are doing the bare minimum. For example, Minnesota is lacking in their efforts only making policies of about processes that are already being implicated on most college campuses. They are showing the population they are doing something but they are not doing anything. It does help that now all colleges are on the same page, but by making it required to do the training there are faults in this. For example, some students do not take it seriously or they pay other people to take them for them. The idea behind the training is great the execution is lacking. Even when the school makes it a requirement to go to class and do an online training. The teachers that are teaching the classes are not trained properly so nothing is taken seriously or nothing is being learned through this