Sexual Misconduct Prevention for Faculty & Staff

The goal of Sexual Misconduct Prevention for Faculty & Staff is to gain awareness, knowledge, skill, and self-confidence to effectively recognize, report, and prevent sexual misconduct against students and peers.

Learning objectives:

• Respond effectively to students’ report of sexual misconduct, avoiding secondary trauma and protecting their confidentiality to the extent permissible.

• Evaluate how to make room for consent within everyday actions, while understanding it can be taken back at any time, and power differentials will always play a role​

• Refer students who have experienced sexual misconduct to reporting options and on- and off- campus resources

• Examine your role in creating and maintaining a safe and positive work environment​

• Apply safe, positive, actionable strategies for intervening in situations where there may be misconduct or the threat of impending misconduct, including incidents involving any gender dynamics and rape-tolerant attitudes

• Build and maintain professional, appropriate, and healthy relationships with students, all while being mindful of the power differential​

• Identify and prevent harassment through the use of bystander/upstander skills

For Responsible Employees (Mandatory Reporters Only):

• Understand and apply the requirement to provide students with information about: (1) available confidential resources for victim advocacy, counseling, and other support services; (2) their right to file a Title IX complaint; and (3) the option of reporting to campus or local police

• Understand how and where to report sexual misconduct​

• Understand the school’s and state’s sexual misconduct policies and procedures​

• Understand and define harassment, sexual misconduct, and consensual relationships ​

• Review the duty to report sexual misconduct and consequences for failing to report​

• Understand the procedures for responding to a student’s request for confidentiality​

• Recognize behavior or other warning signs of sexual misconduct​

• Recognize discrimination, protected categories, and bias​

Research shows that with experiential practice, increased emotional engagement and reflective thinking leads to stronger self-efficacy and behavior change.

The training in this simulation meets the compliance requirements for sexual misconduct and discrimination prevention and awareness as defined in the Clery Act, Title VII, Title IX, VAWA, state and local mandates.

Module 1: Title IX Training

This module has two parts, providing learning content and simulated practice for all target users:

• General faculty and staff
• General faculty and staff who are responsible employees, mandatory reporters

Module 2: Maintenance of Professional and Appropriate Relationships

This module offers essential content with knowledge checks for general faculty and staff and NCAA staff.

Module 3: Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Prevention

This module is divided into two parts, providing learning content and simulated practice for general faculty and staff and NCAA staff.