White House Taking Action to Combat Campus Sexual Assault
The White House is taking new actions to combat sexual assault, particularly on college campuses, as President Barack Obama announced a new task force to help educational institutions prevent and respond to sexual violence as well as beef up the ability of federal agencies to hold schools accountable if they aren’t addressing problems, NBC News reports.
Obama called all sexual assaults “an affront on our basic decency and humanity,” adding that the victimization of college students is an “affront to everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve.”