In the past few years, the public conversation around campus sexual assault has been reinvigorated by movements like "Carry That Weight," which was started by Emma Sulkowicz, a Columbia University student and survivor. Media attention has also helped to amplify the issue -- just this past June, VICE premiered "Campus Cover-Up," a gripping inside look at how poorly most schools handle reported cases of sexual assault.

A 2007 report, formally known as the Campus Sexual Assault Study, found that 1 in every 5 women on college campuses said that they had been sexually assaulted. This stat was commonly used, and even cited by the President and the Vice President on separate occasions. Now, new numbers from the Association of American Universities show these stats -- which are already devastating -- are no longer accurate. In fact, they're worse.

The most recent study, which profiled 150,000 students at 27 colleges across the country, found that 23.1% of female undergrads and 5.4% percent of male undergrads said they'd experienced "nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force, threats of physical force, or incapacitation since they enrolled at their universities." Transgender, genderqueer and gender non-conforming students also faced disproportionally high rates of sexual assault.

It seems that for several reasons, students are reticent to report their cases to any sort of authority (e.g. the police, campus officials, Title IX Office) -- though the numbers varied from school to school, at the most, 28% of all cases were reported. According to the study, this is because students felt their cases wouldn't be "considered serious enough," or that they were "embarrassed, ashamed or that it would be too emotionally difficult."

Other students chose not to report their encounters because they “did not think anything would be done about it.”

Hopefully, these new numbers will motivate universities across the country to reported incidences more seriously.