In 2012, there were 21,147,055 students enrolled at degree-granting institutions in the United States. Of these, 12,063,631, or 57 percent were women. Enrollments of women were down by 2.3 percent from the fall of 2011.
New data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that women make up 76.1 percent of all teachers in the nation's K-12 public schools. Yet, men are 57.7 percent of the principals at middle schools and 69.9 percent of the high school principals.
The University of Southern California in Los Angeles is the latest among a considerable group of higher educational institutions that are subjects of complaints filed with the U.S. Department of Education regarding sexual assault on campus.
A group of demonstrators assembled outside the Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., demanding great enforcement of Title IX of the Higher Education Act Amendments and increased protection for women against sexual assault on college campuses.
On April 4, the U.S. Department of Education unveiled new guidelines on how colleges and universities must respond to incidents of sexual assault on campus. Under Title IX, colleges and universities have been required to investigate sexual assault complaints. But until now there have been no explicit guidelines on what procedures should be followed.
