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CAMPUS SaVE ACT: What is it? How is it related to Title IX?

Learn about the Campus SaVE Act and its relationship to Title IX. Understand how colleges and universities are required to increase transparency, guarantee victims' rights, provide conduct proceedings standards, and offer prevention education programs. Non-compliance can result in severe consequences.

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CAMPUS SaVE ACT: What is it? How is it related to Title IX?

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  1. CAMPUS SaVE ACT: What is it? How is it related to Title IX? Melissa Flores, Assoc. General Counsel, Sr.

  2. What is it? • The Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act, or Campus SaVEAct, is a 2013 amendment to the federal Jeanne Clery Act. • SaVEwas designed as a companion to Title IX—with the goal of improving response and prevention of sexual violence in higher education. ​ • Institutions were required to implement these new measures by October 1, 2014.

  3. Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (Campus SaVE) Act Campus SaVErequires ALL colleges and universities, both public and private, who participate in federal student aid programs, to do the following: • increase transparency about the scope of sexual violence on campus, • guarantee victims enhanced rights, • provide standards in institutional conduct proceedings, and • provide campus community-wide prevention educational programming.​

  4. SaVE requires colleges to have policies that: • Prohibit sexual violence (dating violence, sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking, etc.)  • Explain to whom offenses should be reported • Explain the rights of victims and the institution’s responsibilities  • Address confidentiality  • Address disciplinary action procedures for these actions • Notify students of available resources Designate a Title IX coordinator and widely distribute their name and contact information. Disclose campus statistics around sexual violence. Colleges and universities must have a policy in their Annual Security Report about primary education and awareness programs for incoming students and employees, as well as ongoing prevention and awareness campaigns. ​

  5. Non-compliance can result in: (All or any of the following) • Suspension or limiting of the institution’s Title IX funding  • The institution’s name being provided to Congress by the Secretary of Education  • The Education Department can issue civil fines up to $35,000 per violation (increased from $27,500 on October 2, 2012).  • Final Review Determination Reports are public records  • Negative media attention

  6. So, what? • The purpose of this law is transparency(colleges should be transparent about campus sexual violence). • Prior to Campus SaVE’s enactment, institutions only had to keep track of forcible and non-forcible sex offenses (in addition to other crimes, such as robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, and arson). • UnderCampus SaVE, institutions must also maintain statistics on dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking incidents. • Each institution is also required to provide an explanation of its anti-sexual violence policies and procedures in itsAnnual Security Report.

  7. Review of CAMPUS Save Notice to students

  8. What questions do you have?

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