Get Your Students Hired
The importance of education related to both on and off campus activities must be considered.
I appreciate learning and understanding immediate action needs to take place to support the accuser and the accused allowing for a just process.
Definition of consent is important so this is clear to all. Differnece of interim measures, sanctions, and remedies. The piece on bystander intervention was informative.
I really like the focus on defining what “consent” generally looks like, especially the last portion about consent being withdrawn at any time-I think this is very important in the teachings of consent. I’m also shocked to find out that some states do not define consent, seeing as though more and more sexual assault victims and survivors report and come forth. My question is, how does a Title IX coordinator education and create an environment where students feel comfortable learning and being held accountable for bystander intervention and sexual assault dynamics within at a trade or technical college- when populations of students historically and traditionally (not always) are male prominent environments. I ask only because I can somewhat foreshadow the level of uncomfortableness if I was the only female/singled out during these types of conversations. Does OCR have tactics or suggestions for situations like this? (Another example is the field of nursing, which is predominantly female learners, but not always). Class room dynamics and student population all affect how institutions have conversations.
I understood why anyone who will be handling cases needs to have some training because they will need to understand why the victims will be able to acting the way they are. If they do not have the training, they may misinterpret the behaviors.
This module has been eye opening in assessing sexual misconduct on campus. This has been an ongoing concern for most institutions and how it pertains to this institutions is indeed interesting.
I appreciated the very specific definitions of consent. I believe that there is a lot of misconception on this one aspect of sexual violence.
It is important to know the details of what consent means. It is key to know if an infraction has happened.
A bystander has the power to intervene in potential situations. Encouraging people to act is powerful and can potentially prevent harm.
It is important to understand the psychological impacts of sexual assualt and harassment.
This module provided some more detail and information on different types of assaults and how to categorize them (for example domestive violence).
Victims of sexual violence may behave differently than victime of other types of violence. To the untrained eye a victim of sexual violence may appear to be lying (likely why it's taken SO LONG for women to be "heard" by law enforcement. Thank God for training and the MeToo movement!!
Having students and staff understand policies of sexual harrassment, violence, and crime on and off campus is imperative as well as them knowing where to seek assistance.