Kansas University sent its third annual climate survey to students Tuesday, an ongoing effort to gauge the problem of sexual harassment and assault on campus.

In the anonymous online survey, KU asks questions such as whether students have been or have known victims of sexual harassment, whether it was reported, whether they know it’s against KU policy and whether they know where to report it. It also includes open-ended questions about how KU can do better at handling the issue of sexual harassment.

Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in education, requires universities to investigate and prevent sexual harassment, including incidents of sexual violence.

KU undergraduate and graduate students received a link to the online survey via email. The Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access bought ads and plans to circulate fliers directing students to the survey, and will probably send a reminder email in coming weeks, said Jane McQueeny, executive director of the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access and KU’s Title IX coordinator.

She said her office also hopes to administer a longer, more in-depth survey in some large classrooms.

McQueeny said she expects to have survey results tallied by the end of March. She said the minimum goal is to get more responses than last year.

About 900 students took the 2013-2014 survey, according to results previously reported in the Journal-World. Eleven percent said they had been victims of sexual harassment, including sexual violence, while at KU, but only 2 percent reported it.

“We’d like to see the first number go down and the second number go up,” McQueeny said.

In a message accompanying the online survey link, Vice Provost for Student Affairs Tammara Durham said KU wants to know students’ concerns.

“In the fall, we engaged in an important conversation regarding sexual violence on our campus,” she wrote. “We need to hear your voice as we move forward with plans and prevention.”