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...Campus hate crimes remain a “hidden problem” largely because incidents are underreported by students and their universities. Students do not report ethnically motivated bias incidents for various reasons, such as fear of retaliation, discouragement or lack of knowledge regarding the reporting process itself and the belief that nothing will be done even if they do report an incident. Universities are hesitant to categorize incidents as motivated by ethnic bias...
...Hate crimes on campus are a serious problem that must be addressed. U.S. Department of Education (DOE) statistics indicate that on-campus hate crimes are a growing problem in the nation as a whole, and various survey data show that in particular a significant number of Asian Pacific Americans experience ethnically motivated bias incidents on their campuses. Such incidents are explored in the 2000 audit of violence against Asian Pacific Americans called “Responding to Hate Crimes: A Special Focus on College Campuses,” produced by the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium and its affiliates...
...universities’ failure to comply with the Campus Security Act of 1990 and the 1998 Jeanne Cleary Act, both of which require that schools participating in federal student aid programs report statistics on murders, forcible rapes and aggravated assaults that show evidence of prejudice, as defined in the Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990. The report also urges the DOE to be more aggressive in monitoring hate crimes on campus. A system should be created to reward schools that actively participate in the reporting process and to punish those that...
Students, parents, professors, alumni, and administrators can all work together to ensure that schools comply with federal hate crime reporting requirements. Together, they can develop anti-bias and other programs to address the problem. Schools can also develop working partnerships with law enforcement agnecies to prevent and respond to hate crimes on campus...
Administrators, in particular, have a special responsibility to do all that they can to address hate crimes. First and foremost, they must treat hate crimes as a serious issue. An anonymous reporting procedure, along with a written student code against ethnically motivated harassment, must be easily accessible to all students...