Title IX

Each year our Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Title IX Coordinators participate in Title IX training offered by the SUNY Student Conduct Institute. The required trainings include training on the definition of sexual harassment in the Final Rule, the scope of the school’s education program or activity, how to conduct an investigation and grievance process including hearings, appeals, and informal resolution processes, as applicable, and how to serve impartially, including by avoiding prejudgment of the facts at issue, conflicts of interest, and bias.  All materials utilized for these training courses through SUNY Student Conduct Institute are available for review here.   

For specific information about training attended by Title IX personnel, please contact the Title IX Coordinator, Dr. Stacy Fisher, at [email protected].

All faculty and staff members are required to complete the web-based training module, Preventing Sexual Misconduct (Title IX). This module for employees of colleges and universities focuses on preventing sexual misconduct, as required by Title IX.   The course objectives include identifying what constitutes sexual misconduct, including sexual discrimination, harassment and violence, explaining key laws and policies prohibiting sexual misconduct and violence, and taking appropriate actions to comply with and carry out their responsibilities under these laws and relevant university policies.  

Additionally, during their live orientation, faculty and staff receive a review of the material shared in the online module.  Additionally, this orientation provides information about their responsibility to report, to whom they should report sexual misconduct, and review scenarios they may encounter within our campus community. 

A PDF storyboard of these training materials is available upon request by contacting the Title IX Coordinator, Dr. Stacy Fisher at [email protected].
 
 

Each year, new students participate in in-person training, as well as all completing online training modules expected of all students on Title IX and sexual misconduct.  The online training modules are offered through Get Inclusive, provide education focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as harassment, discrimination, and Title IX.  A PDF storyboard of these training courses is available upon request by contacting the Title IX Coordinator, Dr. Stacy Fisher at [email protected]. 

During their in-person orientation, students engage in a presentation called interACT. The interACT performance is presented in two parts: first, two semi-scripted scenes are presented. One presents a sexual assault perpetrated by a male college student and the second displays a woman confessing to a friend that her boyfriend assaulted her. Then, several interactive scenes are used to invite audience members to come on stage with actor-educators to try to prevent sexual assault from occurring in the scenario, to better understand the experiences of the individuals involved. This allows audience members to have a safe space to rehearse assertive communication strategies. Following the performance, the facilitator discusses effective strategies for bystander intervention. 

Note: the program features a same-sex couple in one scenario and although it features a racially diverse cast, the program content does not explicitly address race or disability. These issues are all addressed explicitly in the discussion following the performance. 

The Title IX Coordinator, in partnership with the Offices of Community Standards, Student Support, and Student Culture and Belonging, offers awareness and prevention programs that seek to educate our community on and promote positive and healthy behaviors, foster healthy, mutually respectful relationships, encourage safe bystander intervention, and seek to ensure our community members know their rights and responsibility as Stevens Ducks and awareness of the resources available for incidents involving sexual harassment/misconduct, as well as discrimination, harassment, or bias incidents.