National sexual assault climate survey results out Monday

The Association of American Universities (AAU) is set to release on Monday, the findings of a national sexual assault campus climate survey.

More than 25 of the AAU member public and private research universities, including University of Missouri, and one non-member institution participated in the this sexual assault climate survey this spring. University of Kansas, a member of the AAU did not participate in the survey.

More than 150,00 undergraduate, graduate and professional students at 26 AAU universities and one non-AAU institution participated in the survey.

The survey, conducted by Westat, a research company, was designed to “help our institutions gain a better understanding of this complex problem on their own campuses as well as nationally,” AAU President Hunter Rawlings said in a statement released Friday morning.

This story was originally published September 18, 2015 at 10:35 AM with the headline "National sexual assault climate survey results out Monday."