1 Agogo: Journal Of Humanities Vol. 4, (2018) ISSN 2536-6890 S. Y. Erinosho, M. N. Femi-Oyewo & E. O. Oduwole Sexual Harassment on Campus: A Study in a Nigeria University Sexual harassment (SH) is increasingly reported as an issue of major concern among both students and staff on campuses across the globe, and has been confirmed to have social and psychological consequences on the victim. However, the scale of the menace is underplayed because of under-reporting of cases. As a way to containing and/or regulating the behaviour, it is therefore imperative to obtain credible evidence on the veracity, the different forms, and how they play out to affect student victims with a view to foster an equitable campus climate. Thus, against the magnitude of the anecdotal reports on SH and the absence of empirical evidence on its extent, this study is concerned with obtaining baseline data on the forms and prevalence of campus-based sexual harassment, as well as ascertaining the awareness and knowledge of SH among undergraduates in a Nigeria University (OOU). An exploratory study involving cross-sectional survey of 1420 males and females was undertaken cutting across the faculties and levels in the University. The findings confirmed the existence of sexual harassment in OOU campus, though reported not to be on a rampant scale. Also, the behavior elements that indicate features of a hostile-environment harassment were reported with most likely occurrence on the campus. The policy implications of the findings were highlighted and recommendations made towards the prevention of SH victimization on the University campus. Introduction In recent time, there has been an increasing concern about the problem of sexual harassment of students on campuses. Indeed, the evidence suggest that campuses are becoming notoriously unsafe and hostile ground, rather than provide protected environment where students would acquire knowledge and develop healthy life-long mutual friendship in a respectful atmosphere. There is abundance of studies in several countries that identified sexual harassment (SH) as a common form of gender-based discrimination routinely encountered by students (in particular, women) in their everyday lives on campus. For example, a nationwide survey of female students’ experience of violence in UK campuses found that one in four respondents had experienced unwanted sexual behavior (Biden, 2010). Similar reports were expressed by Taylor & Hardin (2017) in USA; Steinkamp (2010) in South Africa; Norman, Aikins, & Binka, (2013) in Ghana; Mamaru,, Getachew, & Mohammed (2015) in Ethiopia; and Nwagbara (2011) in Nigeria. Both boys and girls are victims of sexual misconduct, though in many instances, experience of sexual victimisation are more common among women than men (Mitchell, Ybarra, & Korchmaros, 2014). There are reported cases of male staff taking advantage of their superior position, or their economic superiority to lure, coerce or sexually intimidate girls. In some instances, male students are found to sexually intimidate fellow female students (Kheswa, 2014). However, data on the prevalence of campus-based sexual harassment has remained circumscribed because of under-reporting of cases. Rather than reporting, victims would maintain silence or avoid the harasser out of fear or embarrassment (Cortina & Wasti, 2005). According to Dziech & Weiner (in the book Lecherous Professor cited in Smit and Plessis, 2011): sexual harassment by university professors of their female students is a fact of campus life and that the silencing thereof is part of the reason for the historical invisibility of the problem: silence, promoted by the fear that somehow they (the victims) are responsible for the sexual harassment in one way or the other, and/or the fact that students know they are subordinate to faculty staff and administrators. Erinosho et al.,