The National Center For Higher Education Risk Management,
which advises higher education institutions about how to craft effective sexual
assault policies, has been recommending this
type of consent standard for more than a decade.
“The shift in this country away from defining sexual
violence as force-based conduct has been championed by many colleges, and is
now the law in a majority of states,” the National Center For Higher Education
Risk Management noted
in a 2001 guide for campuses. “Many state criminal codes are antiquated, at
best. Colleges are on the cutting edge with so many issues, ideas, and
research. Sexual misconduct should be no different, and is an area in which
colleges really can and do lead the way.”
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