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After 2016 Election, Campus Hate Crimes Seemed to Jump. Here’s What the Data Tell Us.

By Dan Bauman February 16, 2018
Students and other members of the Villanova community posted messages of support along a transit tunnel in November 2016 after an alleged assault against a black female student by several white males shouting Donald Trump’s name.
Students and other members of the Villanova community posted messages of support along a transit tunnel in November 2016 after an alleged assault against a black female student by several white males shouting Donald Trump’s name. The Villanovan

In the charged weeks after the election of Donald J. Trump, analysts and advocacy groups noted a rise in reports of hate crimes. Colleges seemed to be seeing that rise as much as any public spaces.

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Students and other members of the Villanova community posted messages of support along a transit tunnel in November 2016 after an alleged assault against a black female student by several white males shouting Donald Trump’s name.
Students and other members of the Villanova community posted messages of support along a transit tunnel in November 2016 after an alleged assault against a black female student by several white males shouting Donald Trump’s name. The Villanovan

In the charged weeks after the election of Donald J. Trump, analysts and advocacy groups noted a rise in reports of hate crimes. Colleges seemed to be seeing that rise as much as any public spaces.

Anecdotal evidence suggested that acts of campus harassment and violence were on the upswing. (The Chronicle collected much of that evidence in a running roundup.) There was a grim logic behind the anecdotes: As spaces often populated by the religious and ethnic minority groups Trump pilloried during his bruising campaign, college campuses were natural incubators for conflict. Many campus incidents, in fact, involved references to the president-elect.

But was there really a surge in hate-motivated episodes across public and private colleges and universities? That was hard to say until recently, when government data began to shed light on campus crime in 2016. According to new information from the U.S. Department of Education, the number of reported campus hate crimes increased by 25 percent from 2015 to 2016. Meanwhile, additional college-specific data, collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, suggests the election itself played a role in the surge of reported cases.

Here’s a guide to that data.

Hate crimes were up in 2016.

The Education Department data consist of disclosures made under the Clery Act, the federal law that requires colleges to report crimes committed on their campuses. In 2016, the department found, colleges and universities reported a total of 1,250 hate crimes, defined as offenses motivated by biases of race, national origin, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or disability.

That was a clear increase from the status quo. Over the previous four years, colleges reported an average of 970 hate crimes annually, with little variation from year to year.

The campus-specific data match broad national trends. The FBI reported a 67-percent spike nationally in hate crimes against Muslims from 2014 to 2015. In 2016, the bureau reported, the number of hate crimes across the United States increased by 5 percent from the previous year. Likewise, starting in September 2016, the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism and the Southern Poverty Law Center cited hundreds of campus incidents in 2016, before and after Election Day, related to the promotion of white supremacy and other bigoted views.

Nearly all types of hate crimes were reported more often.

The most commonly reported hate crimes in 2016, as in each of the previous four years, were offenses associated with racial bias. They accounted for 40 percent of all hate crimes reported by colleges. Nineteen percent of reported hate crimes were motivated by victims’ religious affiliation. Rises in both of those categories followed significant upswings in 2015.

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Campus crimes in which gender identity was the motivating factor also rose in 2016, with 50 cases reported. (The Education Department added the reporting requirement for that class of hate crime, which is distinct from the department’s broader “gender” category, in 2015.)

More than 38 percent of hate crimes reported by colleges involved hate-motivated vandalism and destruction of property, an increase of 95 offenses from 2015. An additional 38 percent of offenses were classified as criminal acts of intimidation. Acts of physical assault, both simple and aggravated, represented 16 percent of overall reports — a nearly 50-percent increase from 2015.

Was there a “Trump Effect”? At the very least, there seemed to be an election effect.

More-granular data reported by law-enforcement agencies at public colleges and universities to the Federal Bureau of Investigation indicate that there was an extraordinary spike in college hate crimes in November 2016.

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From 2012 to 2015, police departments at select public colleges, universities, and medical schools reported an average of 20 hate crimes in the month of November. In November 2016, however, the same group of departments reported 48 hate crimes to the FBI. Before that, the most hate-related incidents the group of colleges had reported in one month was 40, in February 2014.

This chart, displaying hate-crime reports from five years of FBI data, shows the general arc of campus incidents from month to month — and just how uncommon the November 2016 spike was.

CNN, using FBI data first reported by ProPublica, found a similar aberrant and upward trend in hate crimes nationally during the last three months of 2016. ProPublica also provided FBI data, with detail down to the campus level, to The Chronicle for its analysis of college-specific hate crimes.

There’s no simple way to identify precisely how much of a role the divisive campaign, and Trump’s election, played in the spike. Critics have accused President Trump, both during his campaign and presidency, of arousing and mainstreaming racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia.

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The president’s reactions to criticism of his rhetoric have varied. In a postelection interview with 60 Minutes, he said he was “so saddened” to learn of bigoted acts committed by his supporters, and he urged those supporters to “stop it.” But exactly one year ago, he berated a reporter for asking a question about how the government would respond to the uptick in anti-Semitic acts in the wake of bomb threats against Jewish centers.

As the election recedes into the past, anecdotal evidence suggests that divisions have not healed. This month the Anti-Defamation League reported a 258-percent increase in white-supremacist propaganda on campuses from the fall of 2016 to the fall of 2017, affecting 216 campuses across the country.

And on Tuesday a Wayne State University student allegedly pulled a knife on a group of student activists, telling them, “I think all immigrants should be deported or killed,” one of the activists recounted. Wayne State has since suspended the student.

Here’s an institution-by-institution breakdown of the hate-crime data analyzed by The Chronicle:

InstitutionStateHate crimes in 2015Hate crimes in 2016
U. of Alaska at Anchorage AK 0 3
Birmingham-Southern College AL 0 2
U. of North Alabama AL 0 2
U. of Montevallo AL 0 1
Wallace State Community College at Hanceville (Ala.) AL 0 1
Jacksonville State U. AL 0 1
U. of Alabama at Birmingham AL 0 1
Auburn U. AL 0 1
Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine AL 1 0
Alabama State U. AL 3 0
Philander Smith College AR 0 1
Harding U. AR 0 1
Arkansas Tech U. AR 1 2
Ecclesia College AR 1 1
Williams Baptist College AR 1 0
U of Arkansas at Fort Smith AR 2 0
American Samoa Community College AS 9 2
U. of Arizona AZ 1 4
U. of Advancing Technology AZ 0 1
Paradise Valley Community College AZ 0 1
Northern Arizona U. AZ 1 0
Arizona State U. AZ 2 1
Cochise College AZ 2 0
Santa Monica College CA 0 9
U. of Southern California CA 3 8
Ohlone College CA 0 4
Stanford U. CA 2 6
California State U.-Dominguez Hills CA 1 5
U. of California at Berkeley CA 3 7
El Camino College at Compton CA 0 3
Cerritos College CA 0 3
San Jose State U. CA 1 4
U. of California at San Diego CA 0 3
American Conservatory Theater CA 0 2
Saint Mary’s College of California CA 0 2
U. of San Diego CA 0 2
Mt. San Antonio College CA 1 3
California State U. at Long Beach CA 0 2
East San Gabriel Valley Regional Occupational Program and Technical Center CA 4 5
Galaxy Medical College CA 0 1
ATI College-Norwalk CA 0 1
NCP College of Nursing-Hayward CA 0 1
Make-up Designory CA 0 1
National Career Education CA 0 1
Carrington College California at Stockton (Calif.) CA 0 1
Life Chiropractic College West CA 0 1
Mills College CA 1 2
Occidental College CA 1 2
Pitzer College CA 0 1
Institute of Technology (Clovis, Calif.) CA 0 1
Claremont McKenna College CA 0 1
Dominican U. of California CA 0 1
U. of California at San Francisco CA 0 1
Santa Clara U. CA 1 2
Academy of Art U. CA 1 2
Evergreen Valley College CA 0 1
California State U-Stanislaus CA 0 1
City College of San Francisco CA 1 2
De Anza College CA 1 2
San Diego State U. CA 2 3
San Francisco State U. CA 1 2
Modesto Junior College CA 0 1
Riverside Community College District CA 0 1
California State U. at Fullerton CA 1 2
Fullerton College CA 0 1
American River College CA 0 1
U. of California at Irvine CA 0 1
Humboldt State U. CA 3 3
U. of the Pacific CA 1 1
U. of California at Riverside CA 1 1
California State U. at Northridge CA 1 0
East Los Angeles College CA 1 0
Santa Ana College CA 1 0
Bakersfield College CA 1 0
Los Angeles Valley College CA 1 0
San Diego City College CA 1 0
MiraCosta Community College District CA 1 0
San Diego Miramar College CA 1 0
U. of Phoenix-California CA 1 0
Cabrillo College CA 1 0
Loyola Marymount U. CA 1 0
Las Positas College CA 1 0
Imperial Valley College CA 1 0
Scripps College CA 1 0
Harvey Mudd College CA 1 0
Platt College at Ontario (Calif.) CA 1 0
Humphreys College CA 1 0
Grace Mission U. CA 1 0
Whittier College CA 2 1
Cypress College CA 2 1
Los Angeles Trade-Technical College CA 2 0
Ventura College CA 2 0
Simpson U. (Calif.) CA 2 0
Southern California Health Institute CA 2 0
California Institute of Technology CA 3 1
U. of California at Los Angeles CA 6 3
U. of California at Santa Cruz CA 4 1
California Polytechnic State U. at San Luis Obispo CA 4 0
Modern Beauty Academy CA 10 6
U. of California at Davis CA 9 1
Community College of Denver CO 2 5
Metropolitan State College of Denver CO 2 5
U. of Colorado at Denver CO 2 5
Colorado College CO 1 3
Trinidad State Junior College CO 0 2
Fort Lewis College CO 1 2
Western State Colorado U. CO 0 1
Regis U. CO 0 1
U. of Denver CO 1 1
U. of Colorado at Colorado Springs CO 1 1
Community College of Aurora CO 3 2
Front Range Community College CO 3 0
U. of Hartford CT 0 6
Three Rivers Community College (Conn.) CT 0 4
Porter and Chester Institute of Stratford CT 0 2
Mitchell College CT 0 1
Eastern Connecticut State U. CT 0 1
Fairfield U. CT 1 0
U. of Saint Joseph CT 1 0
U. of Connecticut-Tri-Campus CT 1 0
Quinnipiac U. CT 3 2
U. of Bridgeport CT 2 1
Trinity College (Conn.) CT 3 1
Western Connecticut State U. CT 3 0
Gateway Community College (Conn.) CT 4 0
Connecticut College CT 6 2
U. of Connecticut CT 8 0
American U. DC 3 6
George Washington U. DC 3 5
Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family DC 2 3
Catholic U. of America DC 2 3
Gallaudet U. DC 2 2
Georgetown U. DC 4 4
Wilmington U. (Del.) DE 0 5
Flagler College at St. Augustine (Fla.) FL 0 3
Broward College FL 0 2
Flagler College at Tallahassee (Fla.) FL 0 1
Florida Southern College FL 0 1
Florida Gulf Coast U. FL 0 1
U. of North Florida FL 0 1
Florida State College at Jacksonville FL 0 1
Valencia College FL 0 1
U. of Florida FL 0 1
Rollins College FL 1 1
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U. at Daytona Beach (Fla.) FL 1 1
U. of Central Florida FL 1 0
U. of South Florida FL 1 0
Nova Southeastern U. FL 1 0
Tallahassee Community College FL 1 0
St. Johns River State College FL 1 0
Atlantis U. FL 1 0
Schiller International U. FL 1 0
Eckerd College FL 2 1
Florida State U. FL 4 3
Miami Dade College FL 2 0
U. of Miami FL 4 0
College of Micronesia-FSM FM 0 7
Oglethorpe U. GA 1 2
Fortis College at Smyrna (Ga.) GA 0 1
U. of North Georgia GA 1 0
Columbus State U. GA 1 0
Middle Georgia State College GA 1 0
Dalton State College GA 1 0
Darton State College GA 1 0
Atlanta School of Massage GA 1 0
U. of Georgia GA 2 1
Georgia Institute of Technology GA 2 0
Berry College GA 3 0
Iowa State U. IA 1 5
Drake U. IA 0 3
Buena Vista U. IA 0 2
U. of Iowa IA 0 2
U. of Northern Iowa IA 1 2
Indian Hills Community College IA 1 0
Luther College IA 1 0
Mount Mercy U. IA 1 0
Grinnell College IA 1 0
Ellsworth Community College IA 1 0
St. Ambrose U. IA 4 0
College of Western Idaho ID 1 0
College of Southern Idaho ID 1 0
National U. of Health Sciences IL 0 4
Southern Illinois U. at Carbondale IL 0 4
U. of Illinois at Chicago IL 0 4
Harper College IL 0 3
John Marshall Law School (Ill.) IL 0 2
North Central College IL 0 2
School of the Art Institute of Chicago IL 0 2
Bradley U. IL 0 2
City Colleges of Chicago, Harry S. Truman College IL 0 2
Southern Illinois U. at Edwardsville IL 0 2
Illinois State U. IL 0 2
Northwestern U. IL 0 2
The Salon Professional Academy-Shorewood IL 0 1
Blackburn College IL 1 2
Lake Forest College IL 1 2
City Colleges of Chicago, Wilbur Wright College IL 0 1
College of DuPage IL 0 1
Moraine Valley Community College IL 2 2
Columbia College Chicago IL 1 1
Northern Illinois U. IL 1 0
U. of Chicago IL 1 0
Lewis U. IL 1 0
Fox College IL 1 0
Hebrew Theological College IL 1 0
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago IL 1 0
National Latino Education Institute IL 1 0
Rockford U. IL 2 1
Knox College IL 2 0
Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Indianapolis IN 5 13
Brown Mackie College-Fort Wayne IN 0 5
Indiana U. at Bloomington IN 1 6
DePauw U. IN 3 7
Indiana U. at South Bend IN 0 4
Purdue U. at West Lafayette IN 1 4
Ball State U. IN 0 2
Saint Mary’s College (Ind.) IN 1 2
Purdue U. Calumet IN 0 1
Vincennes U. IN 0 1
Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Fort Wayne IN 1 0
U. of Southern Indiana IN 1 0
Manchester U. IN 1 0
Goshen College IN 1 0
Hanover College IN 3 2
Valparaiso U. IN 2 1
Bethany College (Kan.) KS 0 1
Haskell Indian Nations U. KS 0 1
Wichita State U. KS 1 2
Highland Community College (Kan.) KS 1 0
Neosho County Community College KS 1 0
Fort Scott Community College KS 1 0
Southwestern College (Kan.) KS 2 1
U. of Kansas KS 2 0
Brown Mackie College-Louisville KY 0 1
Transylvania U. KY 0 1
Spalding U. KY 0 1
U. of Louisville KY 0 1
Murray State U. KY 1 1
U. of Kentucky KY 1 0
Union College (Ky.) KY 1 0
Berea College KY 2 0
Georgetown College KY 2 0
Louisiana State U. at Baton Rouge LA 1 2
Tulane U. LA 3 0
Roxbury Community College MA 0 9
Curry College MA 0 7
Berklee College of Music MA 0 6
Harvard U. MA 2 8
American Academy of Personal Training-Boston MA 1 4
Massachusetts General Hospital Dietetic Internship MA 1 3
Monty Tech MA 0 2
Assabet Valley Regional Technical School MA 0 2
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts MA 0 2
U. of Massachusetts at Amherst MA 1 3
Dean College MA 1 2
Hampshire College MA 0 1
Hult International Business School at Boston MA 0 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA 1 2
Brandeis U. MA 0 1
Worcester State U. MA 0 1
Massasoit Community College MA 0 1
Middlesex Community College MA 0 1
Bard College at Simon’s Rock MA 1 1
Framingham State U. MA 4 4
Emerson College MA 2 2
Clark U. MA 1 1
Springfield Technical Community College MA 1 1
Quinsigamond Community College MA 1 1
Tufts U. MA 1 1
Boston College MA 1 1
Bristol Community College MA 1 0
Fitchburg State U. MA 1 0
Massachusetts Bay Community College MA 1 0
Endicott College MA 1 0
Nichols College MA 1 0
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology MA 1 0
Becker College at Worcester MA 2 1
U. of Massachusetts at Boston MA 2 0
Simmons College MA 2 0
Quincy College MA 2 0
Smith College MA 2 0
Emmanuel College (Mass.) MA 2 0
Bentley U. MA 3 1
Pine Manor College MA 3 0
Northeastern U. MA 7 4
Williams College MA 5 1
Boston U. MA 5 0
U. of Maryland at College Park MD 0 4
U. of Maryland at Baltimore MD 0 2
Anne Arundel Community College MD 0 2
Goucher College MD 2 3
Capitol Technology University MD 0 1
Loyola U. Maryland MD 3 4
Hood College MD 0 1
U. of Maryland-Eastern Shore MD 0 1
Frostburg State U. MD 0 1
Harford Community College MD 0 1
Howard Community College MD 0 1
Towson U. MD 2 2
Johns Hopkins U. MD 1 1
U. of Maryland University College MD 1 1
Mount St. Mary’s U. (Md.) MD 1 0
Chesapeake College MD 1 0
U. of Maryland-Baltimore County MD 4 3
Montgomery College MD 4 3
Garrett College MD 2 0
U. of Southern Maine ME 0 5
College of the Atlantic ME 0 2
U. of Maine ME 2 3
Washington County Community College ME 1 0
College of the Marshall Islands MH 1 4
U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor MI 2 8
Ecumenical Theological Seminary MI 0 5
Henry Ford Community College MI 0 4
Marygrove College MI 0 1
Concordia U. (Mich.) MI 0 1
Bay De Noc Community College MI 0 1
Lake Superior State U. MI 0 1
Southwestern Michigan College MI 0 1
U. of Michigan at Flint MI 0 1
U. of Michigan at Dearborn MI 0 1
Ferris State U. MI 0 1
Baker College of Flint MI 0 1
Western Michigan U. MI 0 1
Grand Valley State U. MI 0 1
Michigan State U. College of Law MI 3 2
Siena Heights U. MI 2 0
Michigan State U. MI 4 2
Davenport U. MI 4 0
Madonna U. MI 4 0
Brighton Institute of Cosmetology MI 5 0
Metropolitan State U. MN 0 13
Anoka-Ramsey Community College MN 0 3
Concordia College at Moorhead MN 0 2
Minneapolis Community and Technical College MN 0 2
Minnesota State U. at Mankato MN 1 3
St. Catherine U. MN 2 3
Saint Cloud Technical and Community College MN 0 1
Concordia U. at St. Paul MN 0 1
Saint Paul College MN 0 1
Anoka Technical College MN 1 1
U. of Minnesota at Duluth MN 1 1
U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities MN 2 2
Winona State U. MN 1 0
Carleton College MN 2 1
St. Cloud State U. MN 4 1
Webster U. MO 0 2
Metropolitan Community College Longview (Mo.) MO 0 2
Culver-Stockton College MO 1 2
Cox College MO 0 1
Kansas City U. of Medicine and Biosciences MO 0 1
Washington U. in St. Louis MO 1 2
U. of Missouri at Kansas City MO 1 2
Saint Louis U. MO 0 1
Three Rivers College (Mo.) MO 1 1
Crowder College MO 1 1
Northwest Missouri State U. MO 1 1
U. of Missouri at St. Louis MO 1 1
Southeast Missouri State U. MO 1 0
William Jewell College MO 1 0
Grabber School of Hair Design MO 1 0
Stephens College MO 2 1
Missouri U. of Science and Technology MO 3 2
Missouri Western State U. MO 2 1
Saint Louis Community College at Forest Park MO 3 0
U. of Missouri at Columbia MO 11 1
Montana State U. at Bozeman MT 0 9
U. of Montana at Missoula MT 2 4
Montana State U.-Northern MT 1 0
Dawson Community College MT 1 0
Salem College NC 0 8
North Carolina Central U. NC 0 2
Art Institute of Charlotte NC 0 1
Warren Wilson College NC 0 1
Stanly Community College NC 0 1
U. of North Carolina at Greensboro NC 1 2
U. of North Carolina School of the Arts NC 2 2
Duke U. NC 2 2
Winston-Salem State U. NC 1 0
High Point U. NC 1 0
William Peace U. NC 1 0
East Carolina U. NC 2 1
U. of North Carolina at Pembroke NC 2 0
Robeson Community College NC 2 0
Catawba College NC 3 0
U. of North Dakota ND 0 2
North Dakota State College of Science ND 0 1
Turtle Mountain Community College ND 1 0
Dickinson State U. ND 3 2
U. of Nebraska at Omaha NE 0 4
U. of Nebraska at Lincoln NE 3 5
Western Nebraska Community College NE 0 1
Nebraska Wesleyan U. NE 0 1
U. of Nebraska at Kearney NE 0 1
Keene State College NH 2 20
Dartmouth College NH 1 10
U. of New Hampshire NH 0 3
Franklin Pierce U. NH 2 4
U. of New Hampshire at Manchester NH 0 1
Nashua Community College NH 1 0
Colby-Sawyer College NH 1 0
New England College NH 3 2
Seton Hall U. NJ 0 4
Rutgers U. at Newark NJ 1 3
Adult and Continuing Education-BCTS NJ 0 1
Atlantic Beauty & Spa Academy LLC NJ 0 1
Saint Peter’s U. NJ 0 1
Princeton U. NJ 0 1
Hudson County Community College NJ 0 1
Ocean County College NJ 2 2
College of New Jersey NJ 1 1
New Jersey City U. NJ 1 0
Raritan Valley Community College NJ 1 0
Sussex County Community College NJ 1 0
Princeton Theological Seminary NJ 1 0
Rutgers U. at Camden NJ 3 2
Kean U. NJ 3 2
Ocean County Vocational-Technical School NJ 3 0
William Paterson U. of New Jersey NJ 4 1
Bergen Community College NJ 4 1
Montclair State U. NJ 4 1
Rutgers U. at New Brunswick NJ 11 5
U. of the Southwest NM 1 4
Eastern New Mexico U. at Roswell NM 4 7
Brown Mackie College at Albuquerque NM 0 1
U. of New Mexico NM 3 4
Central New Mexico Community College NM 0 1
New Mexico Highlands U. NM 1 0
Institute of American Indian Arts NM 1 0
San Juan College NM 2 0
Pima Medical Institute at Albuquerque NM 2 0
New Mexico State U. Dona Ana Community College NM 4 1
New Mexico State U. at Las Cruces NM 4 1
U. of Nevada at Las Vegas NV 1 0
Truckee Meadows Community College NV 1 0
Nassau Community College NY 0 15
Onondaga Community College NY 5 12
Washington Saratoga Warren Hamilton Essex BOCES-Practical Nursing Program NY 0 4
Vassar College NY 0 4
Clarkson U. NY 0 4
State U. of New York College at Plattsburgh NY 0 4
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion NY 0 3
North Country Community College NY 0 3
City U. of New York Brooklyn College NY 2 5
St. John’s U. (N.Y.) NY 0 3
Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program NY 0 2
Talmudical Seminary Oholei Torah NY 0 2
Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch America NY 0 2
Elmira College NY 0 2
State U. of New York Upstate Medical U. NY 0 2
State U. of New York A&T College at Morrisville NY 2 4
State U. of New York Maritime College NY 0 2
Manhattanville College NY 0 2
Cornell U. NY 6 8
City U. of New York John Jay College of Criminal Justice NY 2 4
Rochester Institute of Technology NY 0 2
State U. of New York at Stony Brook NY 1 3
Schuyler Steuben Chemung Tioga Allegany BOCES NY 2 3
Northeastern Seminary NY 0 1
Sarah Lawrence College NY 4 5
Paul Smith’s College NY 0 1
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY 0 1
Manhattan School of Music NY 0 1
Roberts Wesleyan College NY 0 1
State U. of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn NY 0 1
Hobart and William Smith Colleges NY 0 1
St. Lawrence U. NY 0 1
Barnard College NY 0 1
State U. of New York at New Paltz NY 2 3
State U. of New York Institute of Technology at Utica-Rome NY 0 1
Daemen College NY 0 1
Culinary Institute of America NY 0 1
College of Saint Rose NY 0 1
Syracuse U. NY 4 5
Jamestown Community College NY 0 1
Schenectady County Community College NY 0 1
Utica College NY 0 1
State U. of New York College at Geneseo NY 0 1
Broome Community College NY 0 1
State U. of New York College at Oswego NY 0 1
State U. of New York, The College at Brockport NY 0 1
Columbia U. NY 2 3
New School NY 0 1
City U. of New York Kingsborough Community College NY 0 1
City College of City U. of New York NY 0 1
U. at Albany, SUNY NY 0 1
U. at Buffalo NY 0 1
State U. of New York College at Purchase NY 3 3
Wagner College NY 1 1
State U. of New York College at Old Westbury NY 1 1
Dutchess Community College NY 2 2
Westchester Community College NY 1 1
Touro College (N.Y.) NY 1 1
New York U. NY 1 0
City U. of New York La Guardia Community College NY 1 0
Binghamton U. NY 1 0
College of Staten Island NY 1 0
Hofstra U. NY 1 0
Adelphi U. NY 1 0
City U. of New York Medgar Evers College NY 1 0
Alfred State College NY 1 0
Long Island U. at Brentwood NY 4 3
Buffalo State College NY 4 3
St. John Fisher College NY 2 1
Suffolk County Community College Central Administration NY 5 4
Rockland Community College NY 2 1
City U. of New York York College NY 2 1
Fordham U. NY 2 1
City U. of New York Hunter College NY 2 1
Yeshiva U. NY 2 0
D’Youville College NY 2 0
Tompkins Cortland Community College NY 2 0
Sullivan County Community College NY 2 0
Juilliard School NY 2 0
Long Island U. at Riverhead NY 2 0
State U. of New York College at Potsdam NY 4 2
Bard College NY 3 1
Five Towns College NY 3 0
Keuka College NY 4 0
State U. of New York College at Oneonta NY 6 1
Skidmore College NY 23 0
Ohio State U. OH 4 32
U. of Akron OH 0 10
Hondros College OH 0 4
Kent State U. at Kent (Ohio) OH 0 3
Ohio Center for Broadcasting-Columbus OH 0 2
Capital U. OH 2 4
Owens Community College OH 0 2
U. of Toledo OH 0 2
Antioch College OH 0 1
Warren County Career Center OH 0 1
Oberlin College OH 2 3
U. of Mount Union OH 1 2
Heidelberg U. OH 0 1
Kenyon College OH 0 1
Walsh U. OH 0 1
Tiffin U. OH 0 1
Bowling Green State U., Main Campus OH 3 4
U. of Findlay (Ohio) OH 0 1
U. of Cincinnati OH 6 7
Ashland U. OH 0 1
John Carroll U. OH 2 2
Ohio U. OH 1 1
Miami U. (Ohio) OH 1 0
Sinclair Community College OH 1 0
Youngstown State U. OH 1 0
Case Western Reserve U. OH 1 0
U. of Dayton OH 1 0
Eastern Gateway Community College OH 1 0
Central Ohio Technical College OH 1 0
Ohio State U. at Newark OH 1 0
Ohio Dominican U. OH 1 0
Wittenberg U. OH 2 0
Miami-Jacobs Career College at Springboro OH 2 0
Cleveland State U. OH 3 1
Hocking College OH 4 0
Hiram College OH 4 0
Cleveland Institute of Dental-Medical Assistants-Lyndhurst OH 8 4
Baldwin Wallace U. OH 5 1
Cleveland Institute of Dental-Medical Assistants-Cleveland OH 9 3
Cleveland Institute of Dental-Medical Assistants-Mentor OH 7 1
Rose State College OK 0 1
Northeastern State U. OK 0 1
Gordon Cooper Technology Center OK 1 1
Oklahoma Baptist U. OK 1 0
Saint Gregory’s U. at Shawnee (Okla.) OK 1 0
Southern Nazarene U. OK 4 3
U. of Central Oklahoma OK 4 0
Oregon State U. at Cascades OR 0 3
Central Oregon Community College OR 0 3
Oregon State U. OR 1 4
Rogue Community College OR 1 3
Pacific U. OR 0 2
Clackamas Community College OR 0 2
Oregon Health & Science U. OR 0 1
Portland State U. OR 4 4
Lane Community College OR 1 0
Umpqua Community College OR 1 0
U. of Portland OR 2 1
U. of Oregon OR 2 1
Lewis & Clark College OR 6 0
Portland Community College OR 10 1
Arcadia U. PA 0 6
Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology PA 1 3
Swarthmore College PA 2 4
Washington & Jefferson College PA 0 2
Ursinus College PA 0 2
Pennsylvania College of Technology PA 3 5
Villanova U. PA 0 2
U. of Pennsylvania PA 1 3
Kaplan Career Institute at Pittsburgh PA 0 1
Valley Forge Christian College PA 0 1
Immaculata U. PA 1 2
Elizabethtown College PA 0 1
Pittsburgh Technical Institute PA 0 1
U. of the Arts PA 0 1
Allegheny College PA 0 1
Susquehanna U. PA 0 1
Albright College PA 0 1
Gettysburg College PA 0 1
Mercyhurst U. PA 0 1
Messiah College PA 0 1
Wilkes U. PA 0 1
Drexel U. PA 3 4
Millersville U. of Pennsylvania PA 0 1
Northampton Community College PA 0 1
Montgomery County Community College PA 0 1
Gwynedd Mercy U. PA 6 6
Lebanon Valley College PA 1 2
Delaware Valley College PA 1 1
Indiana U. of Pennsylvania PA 1 0
Duquesne U. PA 1 0
Clarion U. of Pennsylvania PA 1 0
Muhlenberg College PA 1 0
Lincoln U. (Pa.) PA 1 0
Haverford College PA 1 0
Penn Commercial Business/Technical School PA 1 0
Institute of Medical Careers PA 1 0
Laurel Technical Institute PA 1 0
Lenape Technical School Practical Nursing Program PA 8 7
Philadelphia U. PA 2 1
Pennsylvania State U. at University Park PA 8 6
Pennsylvania State U. at Erie PA 3 0
Bryn Mawr College PA 3 0
Bucks County Community College PA 4 1
Seton Hill U. PA 4 0
U. of Pittsburgh at Johnstown PA 5 1
Temple U. PA 10 6
Caribbean U. at Bayamon (P.R.) PR 0 1
Universidad Metropolitana PR 2 0
Instituto de Banca y Comercio PR 2 0
Brown U. RI 3 9
Community College of Rhode Island RI 0 5
Rhode Island School of Design RI 0 2
Rhode Island College RI 2 2
Johnson & Wales U. (R.I.) RI 1 0
U. of Rhode Island RI 2 1
New England Institute of Technology RI 2 0
Cosmetic Arts Institute SC 0 2
Wofford College SC 1 2
Horry-Georgetown Technical College SC 0 1
Coastal Carolina U. SC 0 1
Clemson U. SC 0 1
South Dakota State U. SD 4 5
Austin’s Beauty College TN 0 1
Milligan College TN 0 1
Columbia State Community College TN 0 1
Austin Peay State U. TN 0 1
Pellissippi State Community College TN 1 1
U. of Tennessee at Knoxville TN 1 1
Rhodes College TN 1 0
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Memphis TN 1 0
Genesis Career College-Cookeville TN 1 0
Middle Tennessee State U. TN 3 1
Vanderbilt U. TN 3 0
U. of Tennessee-Health Science Center TN 4 1
Tennessee Technological U. TN 5 1
Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest TX 0 5
U. of Houston TX 2 7
El Centro College TX 0 3
Southwestern U. (Tex.) TX 0 2
Baylor U. TX 0 2
U. of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler TX 0 1
University of Cosmetology Arts & Sciences-Harlingen TX 1 2
Texas Wesleyan U. TX 0 1
U. of Texas Medical Branch TX 0 1
Rice U. TX 0 1
Tyler Junior College TX 0 1
Texas Tech U. TX 2 3
Brookhaven College TX 0 1
San Jacinto College-Central Campus TX 0 1
U. of North Texas TX 0 1
University of Cosmetology Arts & Sciences-McAllen TX 3 3
Howard Payne U. TX 1 1
U. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston TX 1 1
Tarrant County College District TX 1 1
Midwestern State U. TX 1 0
Texas Tech U. Health Sciences Center TX 1 0
Trinity Valley Community College TX 1 0
U. of Phoenix-Texas TX 1 0
Paul Quinn College TX 1 0
South Texas Barber College Inc TX 1 0
U. of Houston-Clear Lake TX 2 1
San Antonio College TX 2 1
U. of Texas-Pan American TX 2 0
U. of Texas at Austin TX 3 0
St. Mary’s U. TX 4 1
Brite Divinity School TX 8 4
Texas Christian U. TX 10 5
Dixie State College of Utah UT 0 2
Weber State U. UT 0 2
Latter-Day Saints Business College UT 0 1
Utah State U. UT 0 1
U. of Utah UT 2 2
Utah Valley U. UT 1 0
Westminster College (Utah) UT 2 0
Brigham Young U. UT 6 2
U. of Virginia VA 1 7
Virginia Commonwealth U. VA 0 3
Emory & Henry College VA 0 2
Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center VA 0 1
Virginia Military Institute VA 0 1
Washington and Lee U. VA 0 1
John Tyler Community College VA 0 1
Shenandoah U. VA 1 1
College of William & Mary VA 1 1
Radford U. VA 1 1
Virginia Tech VA 1 0
Old Dominion U. VA 1 0
Christopher Newport U. VA 1 0
U. of Mary Washington VA 1 0
U. of Richmond VA 1 0
Mary Baldwin College VA 1 0
Randolph-Macon College VA 1 0
Ferrum College VA 1 0
Hampton U. VA 3 2
Northern Virginia Community College VA 2 1
Randolph College VA 2 0
George Mason U. VA 4 1
Sterling College (Vt.) VT 0 3
Landmark College VT 0 1
Castleton State College VT 1 2
Vermont Technical College VT 1 1
Saint Michael’s College VT 1 0
U. of Vermont VT 3 0
Central Washington U. WA 0 5
Evergreen State College WA 1 5
Everett Community College WA 0 3
Bastyr U. WA 0 2
Western Washington U. WA 1 3
Gene Juarez Academy of Beauty-Federal Way WA 0 1
Bates Technical College WA 0 1
Wenatchee Valley College WA 0 1
Lake Washington Institute of Technology WA 0 1
Skagit Valley College WA 0 1
Olympic College WA 0 1
Eastern Washington U. WA 0 1
Seattle U. WA 1 1
Clark College WA 1 0
Spokane Community College WA 1 0
Highline Community College WA 1 0
DigiPen Institute of Technology WA 1 0
Saint Martin’s U. WA 2 1
Spokane Falls Community College WA 2 1
Green River Community College WA 2 1
U. of Washington WA 2 0
South Seattle Community College WA 2 0
Shoreline Community College WA 2 0
Bellevue College WA 4 0
U. of Puget Sound WA 5 1
U. of Wisconsin at Madison WI 2 20
U. of Wisconsin at Eau Claire WI 3 7
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design WI 0 2
Medical College of Wisconsin WI 0 2
U. of Wisconsin at Stevens Point WI 0 2
U. of Wisconsin at Oshkosh WI 1 3
U. of Wisconsin-Stout WI 0 2
Marian U. (Wis.) WI 1 2
Saint Norbert College WI 1 2
Western Technical College (Wis.) WI 1 2
Beloit College WI 1 1
Marquette U. WI 1 1
U. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee WI 1 0
Northcentral Technical College WI 1 0
Edgewood College WI 1 0
Cardinal Stritch U. WI 1 0
Bryant & Stratton College at Milwaukee WI 1 0
Alderson Broaddus U. WV 0 2
Mercer County Technical Education Center WV 0 1
Shepherd U. WV 0 1
Bethany College (W.Va.) WV 1 1
Davis & Elkins College WV 1 0
Western Wyoming Community College WY 0 1
Northwest College (Wyo.) WY 1 0
Casper College WY 4 0

Notes on These Data

Charts based on Education Department data do not include hate crimes motivated by gender identity, a category colleges were first required to report in 2015. The full table of hate-crime data does include those offenses. Education Department data include hate crimes that occurred on a campus, at off-campus locations like fraternity houses and hostels, and on public property adjacent to and accessible from a campus.

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In the table, institutional figures include hate crimes reported both at main and branch campuses. The table does not include institutions that reported no hate crimes in either 2015 or 2016.

Correction (2/20/2018, 1:34 p.m.): Because of a technical error, the original table mistakenly excluded institutions with one or more hate crimes reported in 2015 and zero hate crimes reported in 2016. The table has been updated to correct the error, which did not affect the analysis of the data.

Update (2/27/2018, 3:09 p.m.): Because of inaccurate data submitted to the Department of Education by the college, Lebanon Valley College was listed as having reported two hate crimes in 2015. In fact it reported one such crime. The table has been updated to reflect the corrected data.

Dan Bauman is a reporter who investigates and writes about all things data in higher education. Tweet him at @danbauman77 or email him at dan.bauman@chronicle.com.

A version of this article appeared in the March 2, 2018, issue.
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