After a string of sexual assault reports rocking many universities across the nation, it appears the administrators are exploring every option available to educate students about sexual assault and harassment. Now, it is the turn of University of Kansas.

According to the university student newspaper, The University Daily Kansan, KU has implemented a mandatory training against sexual harassment to students, faculty and staff.

An email has been sent Sept.4 to all those associated with the university notifying that the course needs to be compulsorily completed before Oct.5.

The goal of the training is 'to encourage an inclusive, comfortable and productive community,' says the university.

"In a campus climate survey of students at KU, almost 80 percent did not know how to file a sexual harassment complaint and whom to contact," Jane Mcqueeny, IOA executive director, said.

"This mandatory training provides you with the tools to report and prevent sexual harassment."

Institutional Opportunity and Access (IOA), whose mission is to promote and support a safe and diverse campus, will oversee the training.

Joseph Monaco, University Public Affairs assistant communications director, said university officials, faculty and staff planned the training. He also said university will be expanding the training and the leaders are also contemplating about incorporating it as a workshop in new student orientation.

The students not completing the session in the allotted time will have to face consequences. "But we're optimistic students will complete the training before it gets to that point, as the training is helpful, informative and only takes about 15 or 20 minutes to complete," he said.

The student newspaper's report also asked some of the current students about the mandatory training and many welcomed the move. Most of them seem to be ignorant regarding how to go about if they witness a sexual assault, or worse, if they themselves were the victims.

Xing Zhou, first year graduate student from Suzhou, China, said before she took the training, she didn't know who to talk to if she witnessed or experienced sexual harassment.

"For us Asian girls, if sexual harassment happened to us, we would probably just avoid talking about it," Zhou said.

"It's not a publicly spoken topic. To know that we can talk about this and how to solve this problem is really important."

Hopefully, the training will educate such foreign students who are known to experience a cultural shock during the first few weeks of their arrival in US.