About 11,000 institutions disclosed their most recent annual crime reports, as required by the Clery Act. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) then analyzed the data and found that 89 percent of colleges disclosed zero reports of rape.
The Clery data bears little resemblance to prominent research about sexual assault, as well as climate surveys on individual campuses. In 2015, the Association of American Universities surveyed 27 institutions and found that nearly one-quarter of female undergraduate students said they had experienced a sexual assault of some kind, supporting the oft-cited statistic that one in five women are sexually assaulted while in college. A national survey conducted that same year by The Washington Post and Kaiser found similar rates, as did campus climate surveys at institutions such as Rutgers University and the University of Michigan.