arc3-survey-report

30 2022 ARC3 SURVEY FINDINGS Sexual Harassment by Faculty, Instructor or Staff Member Participants were asked a series of questions about their experiences with faculty members, instructors, or staff members since enrolling at Northern. The majority of responses indicated that participants never had negative situations regarding sexual harassment. However, over 10% of participants indicated that faculty, instructors, or staff on one or more occasion treated them “differently” because of their sex (all genders) as well as made offensive sexist remarks to include gender norms and appearance. For individuals who indicated that they have experienced sexual harassment by a faculty member, instructor, or staff were given follow up questions. The questions were geared toward one experience that had the greatest impact on them. According to the breakdown of prevalent data, 73% of survey participants were female and indicated 83% of the perpetrator were male. On the contrary, 27% of survey participants that indicated that they have experienced sexual harassment were male, about 15% of the perpetrators were female. The majority of participants indicated that the incident of sexual harassment happened on campus (80%). When asked what role the perpetrator was 59% were selected as faculty, while other was 28%. In the other category some answers were “Coaches, students, not my professor, but they knew I was a student at NSU.” The situation that participants indicated they experienced were sexist or sexually offensive language, gestures, or pictures (78%), while the second highest was unwanted sexual attention (19%). A higher number of participants indicated that they ignored the person and did nothing (49%) or avoided the person as much as possible (33%) as a result of the incident. A smaller percentage of participants indicated they asked for help (15%), told the person to stop (15%), or reported the incident (10%).

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