O U R O B J E C T I V E S
End the isolation of survivors.
Provide resources for healing, protection, and justice.
Educate the public about the many different forms of sexual violence.
Work together to identify and eradicate institutional dismissal of valid survivor claims.
Campaign to establish new protections that better guarantee survivor support.
End the isolation of survivors.
Provide resources for healing, protection, and justice.
Educate the public about the many different forms of sexual violence.
Work together to identify and eradicate institutional dismissal of valid survivor claims.
Campaign to establish new protections that better guarantee survivor support.
The Student Coalition Against Rape began as a support group at the University of Southern California, but has since expanded to include students, alumni and advocates from colleges across the United States. Members work together to expose and eradicate administrative failures regarding student-on-student crime, specifically sexual violence and sexual assault.
First and foremost, in its role as a national organization, SCAR hopes to provide a network to connect students who are interested in working together to ensure that promises are kept and improvements are implemented. Together, we can demand change. We can pressure schools to honor their own conduct codes. We can lobby local legislature to pass better policies. We can make sure than no student has to risk paying the price of rape in order to acquire a college degree.
The advent of the Internet and the declining stigma attached to identifying one's self publicly as an assault victim is making it harder and harder for schools to disregard or dismiss the threat of rape women and men face on college campuses. According to best estimates from the Department of Justice, 1 out of every 5 young women attending college will be raped or experience an attempted rape during her enrollment, and 1 out of every 16 men face the same threat. Such numbers suggests hundreds of students per college per year are experiencing one of the most extreme forms of violence imaginable, and yet their colleges routinely report annual sexual violence statistics that are a fraction of these projected numbers.
In May 2013 members of SCAR compiled a 110-page complaint filed by SCAR President Tucker Reed against the University of Southern California for violations of student victims' rights. Three of the 16 student cases were accepted for investigation by the federal government, and SCAR's work was chronicled internationally, from Finland to Chile, China to Italy, and by the likes of TIME magazine, CNN, ABC, NBC, LA Weekly, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle for Higher Education, The Guardian, Ms. magazine and Marie Claire magazine, as well as online sources such as The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, ThinkProgress, PolicyMic and Gawker's Jezebel.
With 55 schools currently undergoing investigations into how they treat victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence, the Student Coalition Against Rape can help you if you feel your school belongs on that list.
First and foremost, in its role as a national organization, SCAR hopes to provide a network to connect students who are interested in working together to ensure that promises are kept and improvements are implemented. Together, we can demand change. We can pressure schools to honor their own conduct codes. We can lobby local legislature to pass better policies. We can make sure than no student has to risk paying the price of rape in order to acquire a college degree.
The advent of the Internet and the declining stigma attached to identifying one's self publicly as an assault victim is making it harder and harder for schools to disregard or dismiss the threat of rape women and men face on college campuses. According to best estimates from the Department of Justice, 1 out of every 5 young women attending college will be raped or experience an attempted rape during her enrollment, and 1 out of every 16 men face the same threat. Such numbers suggests hundreds of students per college per year are experiencing one of the most extreme forms of violence imaginable, and yet their colleges routinely report annual sexual violence statistics that are a fraction of these projected numbers.
In May 2013 members of SCAR compiled a 110-page complaint filed by SCAR President Tucker Reed against the University of Southern California for violations of student victims' rights. Three of the 16 student cases were accepted for investigation by the federal government, and SCAR's work was chronicled internationally, from Finland to Chile, China to Italy, and by the likes of TIME magazine, CNN, ABC, NBC, LA Weekly, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle for Higher Education, The Guardian, Ms. magazine and Marie Claire magazine, as well as online sources such as The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, ThinkProgress, PolicyMic and Gawker's Jezebel.
With 55 schools currently undergoing investigations into how they treat victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence, the Student Coalition Against Rape can help you if you feel your school belongs on that list.
