Title IX

Starting on September 1, 2024, Assembly Bill 2683 requires California Community Colleges to annually train their students on Sexual violence and sexual harassment. The training also must cover additional topics such as “the differing rates at which students experience sexual harassment and sexual assault in the educational setting based on their race, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity.”

Students are required to complete their annual training within 6 months of the beginning of the academic year.

 

+ How can I complete the mandatory training?

New students who have recently completed the online orientation process have already met this requirement.

 

Returning students should submit theSelf-Certification Training Completion Form after watching the videos below.

 

Required

• Sexual Harassment Prevention at your Community College
• Understanding Sexual Harassment & Its Impacts

Optional

• Preventing Sexual Harassment
• Recognizing and Responding to Sexual Harassment
• The Title IX Experience

+ I am a Dual Enrollment student, am I required to take the training?

Yes. AB 2683 requires that ALL students receive training annually.

 

+ If I do not complete the training will my registration be impacted?

No. Your registration will not be impacted if you do not complete the training.

For additional information, please refer to the updated Title IX polices on the GCCCD Title IX website.

 

+ What is Title IX?

Sexual Harassment is conduct that is sexual in nature, unwelcome, and denies or limits a student's ability to participate in or benefit from a school's education program.

Sexual harassment may take different forms depending on the harasser and the nature of the harassment. The conduct may be carried out by college employees, students, and non-employee third parties such as a visiting speaker.  All persons, regardless of gender identity, can be victims of sexual harassment, and the harasser and the victim can be of the same sex.

 

Inappropriate behavior may include sexual jokes, innuendoes, gestures; unwanted flirtation, advances, or propositions; pressure for sex; leering; display of sexually suggestive objects/visuals; display/transmission of sexually suggestive electronic content; any unnecessary, unwanted physical contact; and sexual assault (if this occurs, contact law enforcement immediately and maintain evidence).

 

Sexual Harassment is conduct that meets one or more of the following:

• Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment:When an employee of the District conditions the provision of an aid, benefit, or service of the District on an individual’s participation in unwelcome sexual conduct;
• Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment: Unwelcome conduct determined by a reasonable person in the shoes of the Complainant to be so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the District’s program or activity;
• and/or Sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, or stalking as defined in Administrative Policy 3540.

The conduct can occur in any college program or activity and can take place in college facilities or at other off-campus locations such as a college-sponsored field trip or a training program at another location. The conduct may be verbal, nonverbal or physical.

 

+  Where can I learn more about District policies and procedures?

 

For District policies and procedures pertaining to discrimination, harassment, sexual assault, student rights, responsibilities and code of conduct, as well as student discipline, click on the links below:

 

AP 3500: Campus Safety

BP 3500: Campus Safety

AP 3515: Reporting of Crimes

BP 3515: Reporting of Crimes

AP 3410: Nondiscrimination

BP 3410: Nondiscrimination

AP 3435: Discrimination and Harassment Complaints and Investigations

BP 3435: Discrimination and Harassment Complaints and Investigations

BP 3430: Prohibition of Harassment

AP 3430: Prohibition of Harassment

AP 3540: Sexual and Other Assaults Occurring on District Property

BP 3540: Sexual and Other Assaults Occurring on District Property

AP 5530: Student Rights, Grievances, and Due Process

BP 5530: Student Rights, Grievances, and Due Process

GCCCD promptly and thoroughly investigates and resolves complaints alleging sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual violence. Non-emergency reports may be submitted online.  For assistance regarding a complaint involving sex discrimination, sexual harassment, or sexual violence, please contact:

 

Michael Salvador

Director of Title IX, Equal Employment Opportunity, and Diversity 

Email: Michael.Salvador@gcccd.edu 
Phone: (619) 644-7039    

 

Sara Varghese
Dean of Student Affairs, Grossmont College

Email: Sara.Varghese@gcccd.edu

Phone: 619-644-7600 or 

 

 

+  Where can I find additional resources?

Please visit the College & Community Resources website for a variety of campus and community resources.

 

+ Title IX Training Materials

The Department of Education’s Federal rule, “Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance” requires institutions to publish on their websites training materials for our Title IX personnel. 

Association for Title IX Administrators

Atixa URL https://atixa.org/2020-regulations-requirement-posting-of-training-materials/

 

• Student Code of Conduct   
• College and Community Resources