Title IX Coordinator and Decisionmakers
The Title IX Coordinator, the Deputy Title IX coordinators, investigators, hearing panelists, and other decision-makers, will receive annual training, including education on the definition of prohibited conduct (including Title IX Sexual Harassment); issues related to dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking; the scope of the College’s education programs and activities; how to conduct an investigation and grievance process, including hearings and appeals processes, that protect the safety of complainants and promote accountability, as applicable; and how to serve impartially, including by avoiding prejudgment of the facts at issue, conflicts of interest, and bias; the standard of review; evaluating evidence in a fair and impartial manner; cultural awareness; technology to be used at a live hearing; issues of relevance of questions and evidence, including when questions and evidence about the complainant’s sexual predisposition or prior sexual behavior are not relevant. Training materials are maintained for a period of seven years and are publicly available on the website for Office of Gender Equity and Access. Training will be conducted pursuant to CFR 34 § 106.45(b)(1)(iii), (b)(10).
Students and Employees
Ongoing education regarding harassment and related College policies is required for all students and employees. The College educates its employees through mandatory annual online training and employee orientation. The College educates students about sexual misconduct through mandatory first-year orientation programs each fall, as well as mandatory annual online training and campus programming throughout the year for all returning students. This programming focuses on prevention, bystander intervention, risk reduction, sexual health and safety, and advocacy. The Sexual Violence Prevention and Advocacy offers programs to prevent dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking means comprehensive, intentional, and integrated programming, initiatives, strategies, and campaigns intended to end dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking that:
- Are culturally relevant, inclusive of diverse communities and identities, sustainable, responsive to community needs, and informed by research or assessed for value, effectiveness, or outcome; and
- Consider environmental risk and protective factors as they occur on the individual, relationship, institutional, community, and societal levels.
Programs to prevent dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking include both primary prevention and awareness programs directed at incoming students and new employees and ongoing prevention and awareness campaigns directed at students and employees. Information about sexual misconduct education, bystander prevention programming, risk reduction, and College response is available through the College website, outside the Student Health Center, and on the website for Sexual Violence Prevention and Advocacy.