Learn essential strategies and tools to be an effective Title IX Coordinator.
Overview
The issues facing Title IX Coordinators are continuing to become more complex. Many who are new to the role are struggling to find their footing, and even those with more experience are finding it hard to get accustomed to the continually shifting legal landscape and uncertainty. Additionally, with the recent notification of the new Title IX federal regulations issued by the Department of Education, Title IX Coordinators must move quickly and efficiently to implement these new compliance requirements.
Join us for this comprehensive learning experience, designed to prepare you with the skills, tools, and resources you need to be confident in your role while leading Title IX compliance efforts on your campus. We will address a wide range of responsibilities, such as:
- Understanding the new grievance procedures mandated per the 2024 regulations.
- Managing the role and scope of your responsibilities.
- Learning best practices for investigating and adjudicating cases.
- Analyzing threat assessment considerations.
- Training for your teams, campus community, and much more.
This conference isn’t like your typical association event. So what makes it different?
1) Hands-On Practice: This event is your opportunity to practice real-life scenarios and case studies, all designed to address the most pressing—and sometimes isolating—challenges you face in your role.
2) Real-Time Planning: You'll be able to apply what you're learning in real time by creating tangible plans and resources you can put into play as soon as you return to campus.
After completing the conference, you will receive a certificate of completion to document your participation and credentials in your role as Title IX Coordinator.
Optional Pre-Conference Workshop: Foundations for New Title IX Coordinators
As a new Title IX Coordinator, you may be entering your role with little or no formal training. This 3-hour foundational workshop will provide new coordinators who have less than one year of Title IX experience with the right tools and strategies to be successful in their new role. The workshop will cover the main responsibilities of a Title IX Coordinator, including:
- Understanding and actualizing the value of and critical need for your role.
- Establishing and communicating your policy, procedures, and processes to your campus and your community.
- Leading campus-wide efforts for prevention, response, and remediation of sex discrimination incidents.
You’ll come away from this workshop with a collection of practical tools, resources, and roadmaps that will help you to accelerate your growth within the demands of your complex new leadership role on campus.
If you’d like to attend the conference as well as this pre-conference workshop, simply select the Pre-Conference Workshop + Virtual Conference option at registration, and save $50.
Who Should Attend
This conference is best suited to those responsible for providing direction, leadership, and accountability in their role as Title IX (Deputy) Coordinator. Supervisors of Title IX Coordinators, Legal Counsels, and representatives from Human Resources will also benefit from the content of this training.
Unlock Greater Savings by Joining the Title IX Success Program
This conference is a part of the 2024 Title IX Regulation Success Program for Coordinators and Investigators—your one-stop-shop that provides timely legal requirements and skill development for you and your Title IX team! Enjoy this conference along with the other benefits of this success package, including:
- A 5-user membership for your team.
- Access to an online discussion series that covers the new regulations.
- A community of practice discussion circle to connect with peers around the country.
- Additional online events—such as virtual conferences as well as resources.
Space is limited. Sign up by July 10, 2024, to reserve your spot.
Agenda
Pre-Conference: Foundations for New Title IX Coordinators
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | All Times Eastern
Check-in & Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:30 a.m.
Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Title IX 101: Understanding Your Purpose, Scope, and Context
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
As a Title IX Coordinator, you are responsible for overseeing the entirety of an institution’s response to concerns related to sex discrimination. This session will provide a brief overview of the 2020 and 2024 Title IX regulations and related laws, and we’ll also dive into the expectations and requirements for coordinating your school’s compliance with Title IX.
Defining Your Role: Establishing Policy, Procedure, and Process
10:00 – 10:45 a.m.
To be effective in your role, you must have an expert understanding of your institutional policy, procedure, and process. You will explore the necessary institutional mechanisms for preventing, responding to, and remediating sex discrimination incidents—including necessary policy provisions, grievance procedures, and training requirements.
Break
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.
Tools of the Trade: Best Practices for Prevention, Response, and Remediation
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Once you’ve defined your role as a Title IX Coordinator, it’s time to build a toolbox of evidence-based skills for preventing, responding to, and remediating sex discrimination. We will cover key items related to informal resolution, investigations, supportive measures, and education and outreach to ensure readiness to coordinate institutional Title IX efforts.
Lunch (for Pre-Conference Attendees Only)
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Main Conference: Comprehensive Strategies for Title IX Coordinators: Institute and Certification
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | All Times Eastern
Main Conference Registration
12:30 – 1:00 p.m.
Welcome & Opening Remarks
1:00 – 1:30 p.m.
4 Stages of the Title IX Grievance Process
1:30 – 3:45 p.m.
Includes a 15-minute afternoon break at 2:30 p.m.
In this opening session, we’ll provide a brief overview of the 2024 regulations that breaks the grievance procedure down into four stages: evaluation, investigation, determination, and appeal. We will identify best practices relating to the investigative and adjudication process, including the three adjudication models available under the 2024 regulations, by providing you with the definitions, requirements, and considerations that you will need to consider and employ in your role as the Title IX Coordinator.
Executing Your Role as Title IX Coordinator
3:45 – 4:30 p.m.
Beyond providing direction and oversight of your Title IX grievance procedure, you have other responsibilities that contribute to your institution's Title IX compliance, including ensuring that your employees, students, and Title IX team undergo training as required by state or federal laws. Other responsibilities include ensuring that your employees know their duty to report and the purpose thereof. This session will provide a broad overview to help you to better understand the scope of your collective responsibilities, along with tips on managing your responsibilities while maintaining your caseload.
Networking Reception
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 17, 2024 | All Times Eastern
Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Investigative and Adjudication Best Practices
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
We will invest time in taking a deep dive to review and identify some best practices relating to the investigative and adjudication process. We will review the three models, under the new regulations, that your institution can employ, including: a) investigator as adjudicator b) adjudication with a hearing, and c) adjudication with no hearing.
Morning Break
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Roundtable Sessions: Investigative/Adjudication Models
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Participants will have the opportunity to select the model that they are currently utilizing on their own campuses and discuss some of the benefits and challenges of working under one of these models with one of our speakers.
Lunch
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Considerations for Informal Resolution Processes
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
The Title IX 2024 regulations permit the resolution of sex discrimination cases through an informal resolution process. Informal Resolution is an alternative to the formal grievance procedure that empowers the individual parties to negotiate an amenable resolution on their terms. There are many models for informally resolving a complaint. You will learn about some of those models and what you need to do to effectively employ whatever model you select within your informal resolution process.
Afternoon Break
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Threat Assessment Considerations
2:45 – 4:30 p.m.
As a Title IX Coordinator, you may not be frequently involved in necessary dialogue with your campus partners when one of your cases rises to the level of serious threat to your campus community. In this session, participants will understand the basics of threat assessment national best practices, and how they relate to Title IX. Through a case scenario, we will also discuss the application of threat assessment cases and intersection with supportive measures, emergency removals, support from law enforcement, and Clery compliance issues.
Day Two Final Q&A
4:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Friday, October 18, 2024 | All Times Eastern
Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Students
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
The 2024 Title IX regulations strengthen protections for pregnant and parenting students. This session will equip you with everything you need to ensure compliance under the 2024 rule.
Morning Break
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.
Building Title IX Awareness for your Campus Community
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
We will provide you with some creative approaches to training your designated Title IX investigators, adjudicators/decision-makers, hearing board chairs, appellate officers, advisors, mediators, and your faculty, staff, and student community at large.
Conference Wrap-Up and Final Q&A
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Pricing
Pre-Conference + Main Conference
Starting at:
$2,745
/person
Main Conference Only
Starting at:
$2,395
/person
Location
The Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Baltimore
550 Light Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
A discounted room rate of $199/night is available if you use this link to book your room before September 26, 2024
Questions About the Event?
Rabia Khan Harvey
Senior Learning & Development Manager
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