A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday played host to a wide-ranging discussion of campus sexual assault, and one question factored prominently into the two-hour-plus session: What can the federal government do better when it comes to colleges and sexual assault?
"We’re not sure we know what we can do to help you," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican and chairman of the Senate education committee, which held the hearing as part of a series focused on the forthcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. "We certainly don’t want to interfere with your efforts" on campus, he said.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/3-Themes-From-a-Senate-Hearing/232005