Friday, September 14, 2007
Trojan ranked the University of Kansas 45th out of 139 schools on its list of sexually healthy universities. Last year, the University was ranked 79th on the Sexual Health Report Card.
Ken Sarber, health educator for the Wellness Resource Center, said he was pleased with the results.
“I am happy to see us improve from 79th to 45th, but I would also like to continue on our path towards being No. 1 on the list,” Sarber said.
The study, which was released on Monday, ranked universities based on programs and resources available on campuses across the country.
Bert Sperling, owner of Sperling’s BestPlaces, the company that conducted the study, said he chose the 139 colleges that participated in the study based on size and iconic value.
Sperling said the universities ranked highest had better and more accessible resources for students.
“What we found is that they had the largest number of resources available for students,” Sperling said of the top-ranked universities. “The schools that ranked near the top had universally high grades in the 11 categories we looked at.”
According to a press release by Trojan, Sperling’s BestPlaces ranked each university on the following categories: sexual health awareness programs, condom and contraception availability, HIV testing, other sexually transmitted infection testing, student health center hours of operation, drop-in versus appointment-based service, navigability and usability of Web-based sexual health information, anonymous advice/newspaper columns, lecture outreach programs, student peer groups and sexual assault programs.
The highest-ranked university, according to the report card, was the University of Minnesota, and the lowest-ranked university was Louisiana Tech University.
Sarber said that the Wellness Resource Center was always looking to talk with students to improve services.
He said that the most important things University students should do to stay sexually healthy was to have safe sex and get tested if they did engage in unsafe sex.
Sperling said that ultimately it was up to students to rank their own university’s health center.
“They know better than any how the University health system meets their needs,” Sperling said. “If it isn’t meeting their needs, they should have a dialogue about it.”
— Edited by Jeff Briscoe
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Sexual health improves at KU
So, should we have that hippie on Wescoe give out free condoms? I think that would be approaching our "goal" of being NUMBER 1 in SAFE SEX!! YAY!
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