Princeton snubs university lobbyists by developing its own sexual-assault survey

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'Princeton University has rejected a survey developed by the Association of American Universities to gauge the prevalence of sexual assault on its campus, opting to develop a survey modeled off one at Rutgers University instead.

Both surveys, however, are based on White House recommendations that seem to prejudge accused students.

According to The Daily Princetonian, Princeton is developing the survey to comply with its Title IX settlement with the Department of Education concerning sexual-assault investigations. It’s not the first to reject the AAU survey, whose secrecy has troubled researchers.

Princeton was forced by the government last fall to abandon its longstanding use of the “clear and persuasive” standard for assessing guilt, now using the “more likely than not” standard to decide whether accused students are guilty of sexual assault, as The College Fix reported.

The Rutgers survey on which the Princeton survey will be modeled hasn’t been fully vetted, by Rutgers’ own admission.

“While it is based on the survey published by the White House Task Force, the survey, as presented in this document, should be seen as an untested pilot tool,” the Rutgers School of Social Work warns in the survey description. “Therefore, other institutions wishing to use this survey should be aware that the validity of the instrument as a whole has not yet been determined.”'