Trends in SVSH reporting
As seen in the accompanying figure, the 2021-2022 academic year saw a spike in SVSH cases reported to OPHD, slightly higher than the total in 2018-19, the first year to be covered by an SVSH Annual Report. As was discussed in the 2021-22 Annual Report, the lower reporting figures for the two intervening years are likely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to shelter-at-home orders in March 2020, the number of students (and employees) living and working on campus dropped dramatically, only returning to pre-pandemic levels in the summer of 2021. Setting aside the pandemic years, then, the comparison between 2018-19 and 2021-22 reveals a small increase in reports. (Figures for 2017-2018 were comparable to those for 2018-2019, but are not shown in the accompanying graph due to differences in how data was quantified at the time.)