Institutional courage is needed to reform Title IX mandatory reporting requirements
Institutional courage is needed to reform Title IX mandatory reporting requirements Rebecca L. Howard, M.A., 1 Allison E. Cipriano, M.A., 1 & Jennifer M. Gómez, Ph.D. 2,3 1 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2 Wayne State University 3 Center for Institutional Courage What happens when a graduate student wants to tell their professor that they have been sexually harassed? Or when a college freshman tells their resident assistant that they were sexually assaulted? What about an assistant professor who wants to share with a trusted colleague that they have experienced unwanted sexual advances by a tenured professor? Too often, these survivors find themselves silenced, betrayed, or both. Mandatory reporting policies require designated faculty, staff, and employees to report disclosures of sexual violence to the Title IX office or administration. Mandatory reporting has been widely embraced on university campuses, with the vast majority designating all, or nearly all, of their facul