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Equal Opportunity and Title IX Staff Training

§ 106.45(b)(10)(D)) of the Department of Education’s 2020 Title IX Regulations require institutions of higher education to post all trainings received by Title IX personnel to their publicly accessible websites.

Materials from the trainings listed below can be found in the training materials folder.

Training Materials Folder

Title IX Coordinator and Director, Office of Equal Opportunity and Title IX

  • 2024: Thompson Coburn Title IX Training Series
  • 2024: Academic Impressions (Virtual Training) – Foundations for New Title IX Coordinator

Investigators, Office of Equal Opportunity and Title IX

  • 2024: ICS Title IX Investigator Training (Virtual Certification)
  • 2024: ATIXA – Title IX Coordinator Foundations: Gender Equity for Higher Education Certification (2024 Regulations)
  • 2024: Academic Impressions – 2024 Title IX Educational Series: Translating the New Regulations into Your Title IX Policies and Procedures
  • 2023: Academic Impressions – Title IX Evidence Collection Strategies to Ensure a Complete Investigation
  • 2023: Academic Impressions – Freedom of Speech, Academic Freedom, and DEI: A Complicated Relationship
  • 2023: Academic Impressions – 5 Essentials to Title IX Investigations
  • 2023: Academic Impressions – Mitigating and Responding to Bias in Your Title IX Process
  • 2023: Academic Impressions – Title IX: Key Considerations for Working with Pregnant and Parenting Students
  • 2023: EEOC Training Institute – Investigative Interviewing Techniques: General Principles and Adapting for Trauma
  • 2022: ATIXA (Virtual Training & Certification) – Civil Rights Investigator One: Foundations
  • 2022: Academic Impressions – Develop a Questioning Plan for Your Title IX Investigations
  • 2022: Academic Impressions – The 5 Stages of Preparing Your Title IX Investigative Report

Hearing Panel, Equity Complaint Council

  • 2020: Policy Training
  • 2019: Ensuring Equity and Due Process in Title IX Hearings: Training for Hearing Panels and Hearing Officers

Title IX Hearing Officers

Appeals Officers

  • 2020: Appeals Training

Title IX Hearing Advisors

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Misty Bailey

Assistant Online Coordinator, Nursing

  • Areas of Academic Interest: Student Success, Recruitment and Retention, Academic Libraries
  • Areas of Teaching: GSD 101: Foundations for Success
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Ashton Chaffins

Associate Director, TRIO-NOVA

  • Areas of Academic Interest: First Generation College Students, Low Income Students, Students with Disabilities, Marginalized Student Populations
  • Areas of Teaching: GST 300: Principals of Peer Mentoring & Leadership
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Shawn Dowiak

Director, Fraternity & Sorority Life

  • Areas of Academic Interest: Research in Higher Education, Research in Leadership
  • Areas of Teaching: GSD 101 – Foundations for Success
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Julie Silver George

Librarian, Dean of Libraries

  • Areas of Academic Interest: Information Literacy, Universal Design for Spaces
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Dr. Ashley Sweat

Director, Student Success Center

  • Areas of Academic Interest: Student Success, First Generation College Students, Academic Advising
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Nick Wentzel

Assistant Director, Military & Veterans Affairs

  • Areas of Academic Interest: Military to Civilian Transition, Veteran Interventions, Veteran Development in Higher Education
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Alex White

Assistant Director, First Year Courses

  • Areas of Academic Interest: Data Science and Media Literacy, Mathematics and Trend Analysis of First Year Students College Success
  • Areas of Teaching:  GSD 101 (course design & teaching), QPR Instructor (suicide prevention)
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Dr. Ginny Whitehouse

Director, ICCA School of Communication & Professor of Multimedia Journalism

  • Areas of Academic Interest: Media Ethics, Cultural Representation in the Media, First Amendment, Documentary Film
  •  Areas of Teaching: Media Law, Information Gathering