We have noted that 55 school are under investigation for improperly handling campus sex assault cases at the same time the number of lawsuits initiated by those abused by school kangaroo-court style justice are on the increase.

Now, alumni from some of those impacted institutions are joining together in helping their schools fix the many problems associated with current procedures for handling sex crime issues on campuses.

University and college alumni are brainstorming ways to improve how their alma maters handle cases of sexual assault on campus.

A new networking group, which has yet to be named, held its first conference call on May 29, according to Dartmouth College alum Susan Struble.

The group features alumni from Amherst and Williams colleges in Massachusetts, Barnard College of Columbia University, Brown University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, The George Washington University, Hanover College in Indiana, Harvard University, Occidental College in Los Angeles, Swarthmore College near Philadelphia, the University of Chicago, the University of Southern California and Yale University, the Huffington Post reports.

Struble, a 1993 graduate and member of Dartmouth Change, an organization formed by Dartmouth alumni to hold the school’s administration accountable for preventing sexual violence on campus, says the group’s goal is to encourage alumni to offer support and advice on how to modify campus sexual violence policies.

“I expect a lot out of my alma mater,” Struble says. “I’m very frustrated that students and faculty have made the same proposals (over sexual violence prevention) for decades and received the same unsupportive response from the school. It’s an embarrassment.”

…“Harvard Women,” a group of about 300 Harvard alumnae, is also urging its alma mater to make substantive changes in its sexual assault policies, says the organization’s president, Lisa Paige, who graduated in 1980.

“We need to prevent. Justice is not the answer. The answer is prevention and education,” Paige says.

The group encourages Harvard alumni to donate to the Boston-area Rape Crisis Center and Speak About It, a performance-based presentation about consent, boundaries and healthy relationships.

The conference call was only a first step, Struble says, but several key issues discussed were the need for unedited public data from anonymous campus climate surveys and thorough research on effective prevention practices and sexual assault policies, including minimum mandatory sentencing for sexual assault perpetrators in which perpetrators would be suspended until the student victim has graduated….

Alumni of Tufts University, Columbia University and Occidental University have threatened to withhold money from their alma maters until their schools’ policies are revised, Bloomberg News reported.