At UGA, rape reports shoot up as data collection changes

For years, critics have questioned how a school as large as the University of Georgia could report such a low incidence of sexual assaults.

Now - with the university collecting statistics from more sources - that number has increased sharply. UGA reported 72 rapes connected to students and employees for 2014, more than four times as many sexual assaults as it had tallied the year before. UGA included assaults reported to an off-campus rape crisis center as well as other cases reported by third parties that had previously been ignored.

Studies have shown that one in five women who attend college say they have been sexually assaulted. At UGA that would translate into roughly 3,000 reports involving undergraduate women.