Title IX Today: Understanding Compliance and Navigating Best Practices

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

1:00 PM – 1:50 PM MDT

Location: Mile High Ballroom 1A-C

Changes to Title IX in 2020 have had a significant impact on the law’s applicability abroad. However, there is a difference between compliance with the law and duty of care to participants. This session offers insight into how international education offices and institutions can navigate the complexity of compliance and best practice.

Learning Objectives:

Understand how the changes to the applicability of Title IX abroad impacts on education abroad program operations.
Learn how best practices in preparing for, and responding to, incidents of sexual harassment and sexual violence can be proactively deployed at one’s institution.
Identify state regulations and/or institutional policies that may govern responses to incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault in lieu of Federal Title IX regulations.
Describe measures and approaches that could be utilized at any institution to bolster one’s approach to incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault.

Chair and Presenter(s)

Mark Eckman

Director Of Education Abroad
University Of Massachusetts Amherst

Presenter(s)

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Erica Austin

U.S. Department of Education
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Janelle Ramsel, JD, PhD

Chief Legal Officer
Regis University