In 1972, with the implementation of Title IX, universities were tasked with a new and daunting responsibility — addressing and adjudicating cases of gender-based violence.
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Beginning this year, students, faculty and staff will be required to complete an online training program regarding sexual harassment and sexual violence.
Read More »The conversation surrounding Title IX has been constantly evolving on college campuses around the country, with the latest change formally including transgender people.
Read More »Back in the Friday Center, where it all started.
Read More »More than a year after the University was accused of mishandling sexual assault, students are still without a revised sexual assault policy.
Read More »When top officials from the Obama administration tour the country to raise awareness of campus sexual assault, North Carolina is the first stop on the list.
Read More »The Sexual Assault Task Force met Wednesday to revise the most recent draft of the University’s new sexual assault policy.
Read More »UNC’s Sexual Assault Task Force is moving forward in deciding the types of punishments to give offenders.
Read More »As members of the Sexual Assault Task Force begin their discussion of sanctioning — the latest phase of policy reconstruction — they’ve amped up their meeting frequency.
Read More »When it comes to reforming sexual assault policies, UNC’s department of public safety is linked to every party involved.
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Under UNC’s current sexual assault policy, “consent” is defined in four sentences. But UNC’s Sexual Assault Task Force’s current draft of the policy has defined the term in 14 sentences. The task force hopes the changes will make the policy specific enough that survivors of sexual assault won’t have to research terms and definitons on their own.
Read More »Leaders across the UNC system gathered Tuesday to launch a systemwide campus security review — an initiative that will zero in on student alcohol and drug use and sexual assault reporting.
Read More »Student Body President Christy Lambden said representing student interests is always on his mind — even if that means he has to go up against an administrator.
Read More »At the second Student Congress meeting of the summer Tuesday, Student Body President Christy Lambden announced one step being taken to address the University’s handling of sexual assault cases.
Read More »As UNC’s handling of sexual assault cases continues to be examined, Duke University has taken steps to toughen its own sanctioning in such cases — naming expulsion as the recommended punishment for perpetrators.
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