Saturday, August 20, 2011
Washington State University Fined for Violating Clery Act (sexual assault)
NYTimes.com
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August 20, 2011
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Washington: University Fined Over Crime Reporting
National Briefing | NORTHWEST
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Federal education officials have fined Washington State University $82,500 for violating a campus crime reporting law in 2007, including not properly reporting two sexual assaults.
Federal education officials have fined Washington State University $82,500 for violating a campus crime reporting law in 2007, including not properly reporting two sexual assaults , the university said Friday. Darin Watkins, a spokesman for the university, said it would appeal the fine. Education officials audited campus crime statistics at about a dozen schools this year, including Washington State. Some of those schools remain under investigation and could also be fined for violations of the Clery Act, which requires campus notification of potential threats to students and employees. Washington State was charged with failing to properly disclose forcible sex crime statistics and accurately classify offenses, and with failing to include statements about campus crime reporting policies in its annual security report.
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Monday, August 15, 2011
ATIXA -- A New Membership Association for School and College Title IX Compliance
Announcing a New Membership Association for School and College Title IX Compliance
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 15th, 2011
ATIXA, the Association of Title IX Administrators, launched today. ATIXA provides a professional association for school and college Title IX Coordinators and administrators who are interested in serving their districts and campuses more effectively. Since 1972, Title IX has proved to be an increasingly powerful leveling tool, helping to advance gender equity in schools and colleges.
Title IX's benefits can be found in promoting equity in academic and athletics programs, preventing hostile environments on the basis of sex, prohibiting sexual harassment and sexual violence, protecting from retaliation and remedying the effects of other gender-based forms of discrimination.
ATIXA Executive Director Brett A. Sokolow, Esq., gave the following statement at the launch event: “Every school district and college in the United States is required to have a Title IX Coordinator who oversees implementation, training and compliance with Title IX. ATIXA brings campus and district Title IX Coordinators and administrators into professional collaboration to explore best practices, share resources and advance the worthy goal of gender equity in education.”
The April 4th, 2011 Dear Colleague Letter on campus sexual violence gave us some insight that the role and responsibilities of the Title IX Coordinator are a lot broader and deeper than we thought. The Coordinator role is complex, sophisticated, and comprehensive. In honor of the remarkable impact this has already caused in higher education, and will cause in the future to both schools and colleges, ATIXA has chosen to use the term Title IX Administrators to describe its membership, rather than coordinators, to reflect the broad compliance responsibilities that fall on administrators widely in school districts and on college campuses. To assist in that compliance challenge, ATIXA offers comprehensive benefits to its members, including:
• Access to the best source materials and training on Title IX
• Title IX Legal Updates
• An active and pertinent professional listserv
• Quarterly newsletters
• An annual conference*
• The ATIXA Title IX Coordinator Training and Certification Course*
• Annual Certification Update Opportunities (seminars & webinars)*
• 15% Member discounts on many ATIXA events
• The ATIXA Blog
• Access to the OCR Investigation Finding Letter Database
• Access to Partner and Sponsor organization resources and discounts
• Access to the most comprehensive online Title IX library available
• Membership roster access
*Additional registration fees apply
What can ATIXA do for you? Consider the wealth of the resources we can offer, based on the expertise of our executive team and our amazingly talented Advisory Board. As one example, ATIXA is distributing freely and publicly its Model Gender-Based and Sexual Misconduct Model Policy to commemorate its launch. We hope that it will help your campus or district to comply with Title IX and protect the safety of your community. Access this free resource on the ATIXA homepage at www.atixa.org.
While you’re there, please join ATIXA today.
For more information, please contact ATIXA Executive Director Brett A. Sokolow, Esq. at (610) 993-0229 or email to: Brett@ATIXA.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 15th, 2011
ATIXA, the Association of Title IX Administrators, launched today. ATIXA provides a professional association for school and college Title IX Coordinators and administrators who are interested in serving their districts and campuses more effectively. Since 1972, Title IX has proved to be an increasingly powerful leveling tool, helping to advance gender equity in schools and colleges.
Title IX's benefits can be found in promoting equity in academic and athletics programs, preventing hostile environments on the basis of sex, prohibiting sexual harassment and sexual violence, protecting from retaliation and remedying the effects of other gender-based forms of discrimination.
ATIXA Executive Director Brett A. Sokolow, Esq., gave the following statement at the launch event: “Every school district and college in the United States is required to have a Title IX Coordinator who oversees implementation, training and compliance with Title IX. ATIXA brings campus and district Title IX Coordinators and administrators into professional collaboration to explore best practices, share resources and advance the worthy goal of gender equity in education.”
The April 4th, 2011 Dear Colleague Letter on campus sexual violence gave us some insight that the role and responsibilities of the Title IX Coordinator are a lot broader and deeper than we thought. The Coordinator role is complex, sophisticated, and comprehensive. In honor of the remarkable impact this has already caused in higher education, and will cause in the future to both schools and colleges, ATIXA has chosen to use the term Title IX Administrators to describe its membership, rather than coordinators, to reflect the broad compliance responsibilities that fall on administrators widely in school districts and on college campuses. To assist in that compliance challenge, ATIXA offers comprehensive benefits to its members, including:
• Access to the best source materials and training on Title IX
• Title IX Legal Updates
• An active and pertinent professional listserv
• Quarterly newsletters
• An annual conference*
• The ATIXA Title IX Coordinator Training and Certification Course*
• Annual Certification Update Opportunities (seminars & webinars)*
• 15% Member discounts on many ATIXA events
• The ATIXA Blog
• Access to the OCR Investigation Finding Letter Database
• Access to Partner and Sponsor organization resources and discounts
• Access to the most comprehensive online Title IX library available
• Membership roster access
*Additional registration fees apply
What can ATIXA do for you? Consider the wealth of the resources we can offer, based on the expertise of our executive team and our amazingly talented Advisory Board. As one example, ATIXA is distributing freely and publicly its Model Gender-Based and Sexual Misconduct Model Policy to commemorate its launch. We hope that it will help your campus or district to comply with Title IX and protect the safety of your community. Access this free resource on the ATIXA homepage at www.atixa.org.
While you’re there, please join ATIXA today.
For more information, please contact ATIXA Executive Director Brett A. Sokolow, Esq. at (610) 993-0229 or email to: Brett@ATIXA.org
Thursday, August 4, 2011
NCHERM Partner W. Scott Lewis Quoted in Chronicle Article on Threats by College Faculty
http://chronicle.com/article/Casual-References-to-Violence/128422/
NCHERM Announces Title IX Administrator Training and Certification Courses
The NCHERM Campus Title IX Coordinator Certification and Training Course is being offered to 170 college and university administrators this week in St. Louis, MO.
This event greatly surpassed the initial projection of 100 participants a month ahead of our registration deadline, and even at 170, created a waiting list of more than 50 people. To address continuing interest, NCHERM has scheduled three more Campus Title IX Coordinator Certification and Training Courses around the country, and has broadened the attendance to include not just Title IX Coordinators, but also conduct administrators, HR staff, legal counsel, academic administrators, investigators, campus law enforcement, athletics administrators, k-12 school Title IX Coordinators and administrators and others concerned with Title IX compliance.
Registration is now open and seats are already filling quickly (60+ already) for our Philadelphia event, October 17th – 20th, 2011.
Please visit www.ncherm.org for details and to register for a seat. Or, come to our January 2012 event on the Riverwalk in San Antonio, or Atlanta in spring of 2012 (more information coming soon).
These events will open for registration soon. The faculty will shift slightly for each event, but will include the NCHERM partners, practitioner experts, leaders in issues of athletics equity, and anticipated representatives from the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
For the Philadelphia event, new faculty members include professor and legislative authority John Wesley Lowery, Ph.D., Daniel C. Swinton, J.D., Ph.D., Director of Student Conduct at Vanderbilt University, and Professor David O’Brien, a noted expert on athletics administration and gender equity in athletics programs. These events are the only certification courses on Title IX, and feature advantages unavailable in any other course, including:
• A top-notch expert faculty with extensive writing, publication, research and practical application on Title IX
• Invited representatives from the Office of Civil Rights
• Four full days of content (okay, that’s a blessing and a curse, but you can come for less than all four days if you are willing to forego certification)
• A comprehensive set of 250 PowerPoint slides
• On-site case studies with group and faculty feedback
• Extensive exploration of the NCHERM Civil Rights Investigation Model
• 250 pages of materials, including exclusive access to the Model NCHERM Sexual Misconduct Policy, Civil Rights Investigation and Grievance Procedure
Consider the advantages of attending this course in any of our locations around the country – you get comprehensive advice to enhance your competent compliance. And, if litigation should occur, you’ll have the ability to demonstrate certification from NCHERM, the most trusted source of Title IX expertise.
This event is no mere rehashing of the April 4th, Dear Colleague Letter. It is a comprehensive exploration of Title IX and the role of the Coordinator. Including §504 Disability compliance, another area of responsibility for campus Coordinators.
We’ll go beyond the DCL, share best practice ideas that OCR hasn’t divulged, and explore areas where OCR may have muddied waters on how we’re supposed to comply. Simply put, you’ll have Title IX coming out of your ears after four days with us. But, when you get back to campus, you’ll have the tools you need to implement and operationalize Title IX compliance best practices, take training to your community, and bring meaningful prevention to your campus.
Register for Philadelphia today. www.ncherm.org
This event greatly surpassed the initial projection of 100 participants a month ahead of our registration deadline, and even at 170, created a waiting list of more than 50 people. To address continuing interest, NCHERM has scheduled three more Campus Title IX Coordinator Certification and Training Courses around the country, and has broadened the attendance to include not just Title IX Coordinators, but also conduct administrators, HR staff, legal counsel, academic administrators, investigators, campus law enforcement, athletics administrators, k-12 school Title IX Coordinators and administrators and others concerned with Title IX compliance.
Registration is now open and seats are already filling quickly (60+ already) for our Philadelphia event, October 17th – 20th, 2011.
Please visit www.ncherm.org for details and to register for a seat. Or, come to our January 2012 event on the Riverwalk in San Antonio, or Atlanta in spring of 2012 (more information coming soon).
These events will open for registration soon. The faculty will shift slightly for each event, but will include the NCHERM partners, practitioner experts, leaders in issues of athletics equity, and anticipated representatives from the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
For the Philadelphia event, new faculty members include professor and legislative authority John Wesley Lowery, Ph.D., Daniel C. Swinton, J.D., Ph.D., Director of Student Conduct at Vanderbilt University, and Professor David O’Brien, a noted expert on athletics administration and gender equity in athletics programs. These events are the only certification courses on Title IX, and feature advantages unavailable in any other course, including:
• A top-notch expert faculty with extensive writing, publication, research and practical application on Title IX
• Invited representatives from the Office of Civil Rights
• Four full days of content (okay, that’s a blessing and a curse, but you can come for less than all four days if you are willing to forego certification)
• A comprehensive set of 250 PowerPoint slides
• On-site case studies with group and faculty feedback
• Extensive exploration of the NCHERM Civil Rights Investigation Model
• 250 pages of materials, including exclusive access to the Model NCHERM Sexual Misconduct Policy, Civil Rights Investigation and Grievance Procedure
Consider the advantages of attending this course in any of our locations around the country – you get comprehensive advice to enhance your competent compliance. And, if litigation should occur, you’ll have the ability to demonstrate certification from NCHERM, the most trusted source of Title IX expertise.
This event is no mere rehashing of the April 4th, Dear Colleague Letter. It is a comprehensive exploration of Title IX and the role of the Coordinator. Including §504 Disability compliance, another area of responsibility for campus Coordinators.
We’ll go beyond the DCL, share best practice ideas that OCR hasn’t divulged, and explore areas where OCR may have muddied waters on how we’re supposed to comply. Simply put, you’ll have Title IX coming out of your ears after four days with us. But, when you get back to campus, you’ll have the tools you need to implement and operationalize Title IX compliance best practices, take training to your community, and bring meaningful prevention to your campus.
Register for Philadelphia today. www.ncherm.org
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