Recently, awareness has been raised to curb the prevalent menace of sexual assault on campuses. American universities and colleges have designated April as the month to raise awareness of sexual violence. They use this platform to outline the key challenges both students and facilities face in trying to STOP sexual violence. Unfortunately, sexual assault statistics are still on the rise. Banyard et al. (2007) report that, out of five female university students, one is a victim of sexual violence. Ward & Mann (2011) correlate by reporting that most cases of assault are perpetuated by acquaintances and there is a high probability that most go unreported. On the other hand, educational structures are indirectly perpetuating the vice (Krebs et al., 2009). According to Black et al. (2010), several universities in the United States acknowledge that they underreport cases of sexual violence that occur in their educational facilities. This is even after they were mandated to implement the Jeanne Clery ACT: All universities and colleges would be required to report every case of sexual assault that occurs within their facilities to the U.S. Department of Education (Krebs et al., 2009). This has raised a myriad of questions regarding the safety and security of students within educational facilities. Therefore, this research will summarize risk factors, prior victimization, substance use, and history of violence and identify post-assault actions and consequences of sexual violence involved in reporting incidents and legal actions taken. 1.2 Purpose and objectives of the research To study the context and statistics of the issue of sexual violence on campuses in the United States Objectivesi. Identify risk factors for sexual violence ii. Identify the post-as… half of the document… both primary and secondary data collection methods. It will include a literature review from peer-reviewed journals, studies, and books related to the study question. Furthermore, questionnaires, interviews and open-ended questions with measurable choices will be used to collect data from the study sample. This will increase the relevance of the study, as well as improve its reliability (Creswell, 2009). 3.5 Analysis methods Statistical methods will be used to analyze the results. For example, responses to questionnaires will be rated through the use of a Likert scale that has five points ranging from most strongly agree to most strongly disagree. Additionally, an ANOVA analysis will be conducted on the results to determine their relevance to the purpose and objectives of the research. The accuracy of the analysis process will be improved by the use of SPSS (Creswell, 2009).