49 2024 ANNUAL SECURITY REPORT Understanding Conflicts of Interest and Bias; What is Affirmative Consent?; Privacy, Confidentiality & Privilege in Disclosures of Sexual and Interpersonal Violence; Cultural Relevance and Inclusiveness, and Responding to Sexual and Interpersonal Violence on Campus; Due Process Part One: Theory and History; Understanding the Investigative Report Template for Investigations of Title IX Sexual Harassment; Title IX Final Rule Basics; Collecting and Understanding Specialized Evidence; No Contact Orders, Emergency Removals, and Interim Suspensions; Effective Interviewing of Parties and Witnesses; Relevance and Decorum in a Title IX Hearing; Determining Relevance in Title IX Hearings: Part One; Cross-Examination in a Title IX Hearing; Neurobiology of Sexual Assault Trauma – Part 1: Introduction; Disability Law in Student Conduct Proceedings; and Technology Basics- Information Security, Confidentiality, and Decorum. Additionally, the Title IX Officers from PASSHE institutions meet monthly. At these meetings, Title IX (including updates and best practices) is discussed. Sexual Offenses Prevention Programs The University engages in comprehensive, intentional and integrated programming, initiatives, strategies and campaigns intended to end dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking that: • Are culturally relevant, inclusive of diverse communities and identities, sustainable, responsive to community needs, and informed by research, or assessed for value, effectiveness, or outcome; and • Consider environmental risk and protective factors as they occur on the individual, relationship, institutional, community and societal levels. • Educational programming consists of primary prevention and awareness programs for all incoming students and new employees and ongoing awareness and prevention campaigns for students and employees that: • Create a caring environment that fosters education, support and dialogue. • Identify domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking as prohibited conduct; • Use definitions provided both by the Department of Education as well as state law as to what behavior constitutes domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; • Define what behavior and actions constitute consent to sexual activity in the State of Pennsylvania and/or using the definition of consent found in the Student Code of Conduct; • Provide a description of safe and positive options for bystander intervention. Bystander intervention means safe and positive options that may be carried out by an individual or individuals to prevent harm or intervene when there is a risk of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking. Bystander intervention includes recognizing situations of potential harm, understanding institutional structures and cultural conditions that facilitate violence, overcoming barriers to intervening, identifying safe and effective intervention options, and taking action to intervene; • Provide information on risk reduction. Risk reduction means options designed to decrease perpetration and bystander inaction, and to increase empowerment for victims in order to promote safety and to help individuals and communities address conditions that facilitate violence. • Provide an overview of information contained in the Annual Security Report in compliance with the Clery Act. Throughout the course of an academic year, these programs are consistently presented to students and employees in order to improve awareness about sexual
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