Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct: Building a Climate of Safety and Respect at Yale

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SHARE: Information, Advocacy, and Support Yale Police Department sharecenter.yale.edu your.yale.edu/community/public-safety/police/ 203.432.2000 (24-hr availability) sensitive-crimes-support Professional, expert help for people who have experienced 203.432.4400 (24-hr availability) sexual misconduct and their friends and family Sworn police officers; Sensitive Crimes & Support Coordinates medical treatment, evidence collection Coordinator Assists with contacting police and/or initiating a complaint Conducts criminal investigations Will only share information if you wish, except in situations Provides services to victims, such as safety planning and of imminent harm assistance in obtaining a protective order Will consult without requiring a police report to be filed

University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct Reports information to the University Title IX Coordinator uwc.yale.edu 203.432.4449 (9 am–5 pm weekdays) Title IX Coordinators Yale’s internal disciplinary committee for cases of sexual provost.yale.edu/title-ix/coordinators misconduct 203.432.6854 (9 am – 5 pm weekdays) Members include faculty, staff, and students; supported by See page 29 for Title IX coordinators’ contact information professional, impartial fact-finders University Title IX Coordinator; deputy coordinators assigned Complainants can discuss options and seek resolution, to Yale College, the Graduate School, each professional remedies, and disciplinary action school, faculty, and staff Handles formal complaints Responsible for policies, programs, coordination of resources, tracking and investigating complaints Reports information to the University Title IX Coordinator Coordinate interim measures, accommodations, and remedies Another way to connect with Inform complainants of disciplinary and criminal options Yale resources! Required to take action in situations of immediate or Download the Livesafe® app from the ongoing threat to an individual or the safety of the Apple or Android app stores. community Report information to the University Title IX Coordinator

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table of contents This guide provides an overview of the University’s Yale Sexual Misconduct Policies policies and the broad range of resources available and Related Definitions 2 to prevent and respond to sexual misconduct at Primary Resources 7 Yale. For detailed information, please see the Sexual Prevention 10 Misconduct Response website (smr.yale.edu). Response Understanding Confidentiality 14 The most important thing that you need Know Your Options 16 to know is: Seeking Accommodations, Remedies, and Protective Measures 18 You should expect to feel safe and Pursuing a Complaint 18 respected at all times at Yale. If for any Appendix: Related Federal reason you do not, Yale will provide and State Laws and Definitions 20 resources to support you and help you Additional Resources 28 take action. Title IX Coordinators 29

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Yale University is committed to maintaining and strengthening educational, working, and living environments founded on mutual respect in which students, faculty, and staff are connected by strong bonds of intellectual dependence and trust. Sexual misconduct is antithetical to the standards and ideals of our community. Therefore, prohibits all forms of sexual misconduct.

Yale aims to eradicate sexual misconduct through education, training, clear definitions and policies, and serious consequences for policy violations. The University Title IX Coordinator has responsibility for ensuring compliance with Yale’s policies regarding sexual misconduct. The University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct (UWC) and the Title IX coordinators both address allegations of sexual misconduct.

These policies apply to all members of the Yale community as well as to conduct by third parties (i.e., individuals who are not students, faculty, or staff, including but not limited to guests and consultants) directed toward University students, faculty, or staff members. Conduct that occurs in the process of application for admission to a program or selection for employment is covered by these policies.

Many forms of sexual misconduct are prohibited by federal law, including Title IX of the education amendments of 1972, and by statutes, and could result in criminal prosecution or civil liability.

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Definition of Sexual Misconduct when: (1) submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a condition of an individual’s Sexual misconduct incorporates a range of behaviors employment or academic standing; or (2) submission including sexual assault, , intimate to or rejection of such conduct is used as the basis for partner violence, stalking, voyeurism, and any other employment decisions or for academic evaluation, conduct of a sexual nature that is nonconsensual, grades, or advancement; or (3) such conduct has the or has the purpose or effect of threatening, purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with intimidating, or coercing a person. an individual’s work or academic performance or Much sexual misconduct includes nonconsensual creating an intimidating or hostile academic or work sexual contact, but this is not a necessary component. environment. Sexual harassment may be found in a For example, threatening speech that is sufficiently single episode, as well as in persistent behavior. All severe or pervasive to constitute sexual harassment members of our community are protected from sex- will constitute sexual misconduct. Making ual harassment, and sexual harassment is prohibited photographs, video, or other visual or auditory regardless of the sex or of the harasser. recordings of a sexual nature of another person Definition of Sexual Assault without consent constitutes sexual misconduct, even if the activity documented was consensual. Similarly, Sexual assault is any kind of nonconsensual sexual sharing such recordings or other sexually harassing contact, including rape, groping, or any other electronic communications without consent is a form nonconsensual sexual touching. of sexual misconduct. All members of our community are protected from sexual misconduct, and sexual Definition of Sexual Consent misconduct is prohibited regardless of the sex or Under Yale’s policies, sexual activity requires gender of the harasser. affirmative consent, which is defined as positive, unambiguous, and voluntary agreement to engage Violations of Yale’s Policy on Teacher-Student Consen- in specific sexual activity throughout a sexual sual Relations and its Policy on Relationships between encounter. Consent cannot be inferred from the Staff Members are also forms of sexual misconduct. absence of a “no;” a clear “yes,” verbal or otherwise, Definition of Sexual Harassment is necessary. Consent to some sexual acts does not constitute consent to others, nor does past consent Sexual harassment consists of unwelcome sexual to a given act constitute present or future consent. advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or Consent must be ongoing throughout a sexual physical conduct of a sexual nature on or off campus, encounter and can be revoked at any time. 3 yale sexual misconduct policies and related definitions

Consent cannot be obtained by threat, coercion, or Definition of Intimate Partner Violence force. Agreement under such circumstances does not Intimate partner violence (IPV) occurs when a current constitute consent. or former intimate partner uses or threatens physical Consent cannot be obtained from someone who or sexual violence. IPV also may take the form of a is asleep or otherwise mentally or physically pattern of behavior that seeks to establish power incapacitated due to alcohol, drugs, or some and control by causing fear of physical or sexual other condition. A person is mentally or physically violence. Stalking may also constitute IPV. incapacitated when that person lacks the ability to Definition of Stalking make or act on considered decisions to engage in sexual activity. Engaging in sexual activity with a Stalking is repeated or obsessive unwanted attention person whom you know—or reasonably should know directed toward an individual or group that is —to be incapacitated constitutes sexual misconduct. likely to cause alarm, fear, or substantial emotional distress. Stalking may take many forms, including following, lying in wait, monitoring, and pursuing contact. Stalking may occur in person or through a Guidance Regarding Sexual Consent medium of communication, such as letters, email, text messages, or phone calls. In some circumstances, Consent can be accurately gauged only through two instances of such behavior may be sufficient to direct communication about the decision constitute stalking. to engage in sexual activity. Presumptions based upon contextual factors (such as Yale Policy on Teacher-Student Consensual clothing, alcohol consumption, or dancing) are Relations unwarranted, and should not be considered as The integrity of the teacher-student relationship evidence for consent. is the foundation of the University’s educational mission. This relationship vests considerable trust Although consent does not need to be verbal, in the teacher, who, in turn, bears authority and verbal communication is the most reliable form accountability as a mentor, educator, and evaluator. of asking for and gauging consent. Talking with The unequal institutional power inherent in sexual partners about desires and limits may this relationship heightens the vulnerability of seem awkward, but it serves as the basis for the student and the potential for coercion. The positive sexual experiences shaped by mutual pedagogical relationship between teacher and willingness and respect.

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student must be protected from influences or activities that can interfere with learning and personal development.

Whenever a teacher is or in the future might reasonably become responsible for teaching, advising, or directly supervising a student, a sexual relationship between them is inappropriate and must be avoided. In addition to creating the potential for coercion, any such relationship Teachers or students with questions about this policy jeopardizes the integrity of the educational process are advised to consult with the University Title IX by creating a conflict of interest and may impair the Coordinator, the Title IX coordinator of their school, learning environment for other students. Finally, the department chair, the appropriate dean, the such situations may expose the University and the Provost, or one of their designees. Students or other teacher to liability for violation of laws against members of the community may lodge a formal or sexual harassment and sex discrimination. informal complaint regarding an alleged violation of this policy with the University Title IX Coordinator, Therefore, teachers must avoid sexual relationships with the Title IX coordinator of their school, or with students over whom they have or might with the University-Wide Committee on Sexual reasonably expect to have direct pedagogical or Misconduct. supervisory responsibilities, regardless of whether the relationship is consensual. Conversely, teachers Violations of the above policies by a teacher will must not directly supervise any student with whom normally lead to disciplinary action. For purposes of they have a sexual relationship. Undergraduate this policy, “direct supervision” includes the following students are particularly vulnerable to the unequal activities (on or off campus): course teaching, institutional power inherent in the teacher- examining, grading, advising for a formal project student relationship and the potential for coercion, such as a thesis or research, supervising required because of their age and relative lack of maturity. research or other academic activities, serving in such Therefore, no teacher shall have a sexual or amorous a capacity as Director of Undergraduate or Graduate relationship with any undergraduate student, Studies, and recommending in an institutional regardless of whether the teacher currently exercises capacity for admissions, employment, fellowships or or expects to have any pedagogical or supervisory awards. responsibilities over that student.

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“Teachers” includes, but is not limited to, all ladder or relocation, will be made to address any issue of and non-ladder faculty of the University. It also conflict of interest. Any decision affecting any aspect includes graduate and professional students and of employment (for example, transfer, promotion, postdoctoral fellows and associates only when they salary, termination) must be made by disinterested are serving as part-time acting instructors, teaching and qualified supervisory personnel. fellows or in similar institutional roles, with respect to Violations of this policy will normally lead to the students they are currently teaching or supervising. disciplinary action, up to and including termination. “Students” refers to those enrolled in any and all educational and training programs of the University. Individuals with questions about this policy or staff Additionally, this policy applies to members of the Yale concerned about a romantic or sexual relationship in community who are not teachers as defined above, but violation of this policy are encouraged to speak with have authority over or mentoring relationships with their supervisor, Human Resources Generalist, or any Title IX coordinator. students, including athletic coaches, supervisors of See HR 600 Workplace Practices Policies at www.your.yale.edu. student employees, advisors and directors of student organizations, Residential College Fellows, as well as Yale Policy on Retaliation others who advise, mentor, or evaluate students. Yale policy strictly forbids retaliation against Yale Policy on Relationships Between individuals who report sexual misconduct, file Staff Members complaints of sexual misconduct, cooperate in the investigation of sexual misconduct, or hear formal Staff are expected to avoid romantic or sexual or informal complaints of sexual misconduct. This relationships with employees (including temporary prohibition against retaliation protects complainants, employees) for whom they have or might respondents, witnesses, or other persons who have reasonably expect to have supervisory or reporting provided or may provide information to a Title IX responsibilities. coordinator or the University-Wide Committee on Under no circumstances can supervisors directly Sexual Misconduct (UWC). supervise or evaluate any employee with whom If you believe you have experienced retaliation, you they have a romantic or sexual relationship. If such should consult with a Title IX coordinator or the a relationship exists or develops, the supervisor and Secretary of the UWC. employee must promptly disclose it to the Depart- See “Appendix: Related Federal and State Laws and Definitions” ment Head or the Human Resources Generalist. at the end of this guide for definitions of these offenses under Arrangements, which may include reassignment state and federal law.

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The SHARE Center Information, Advocacy, and Support 55 Lock Street, Lower Level Office hours: 9 am–5 pm weekdays 203.432.2000 (24/7 availability) sharecenter.yale.edu

SHARE, the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education Center, offers professional counseling and assistance for members of the Yale Community who have experienced sexual misconduct either directly or indirectly. SHARE is available any time of the day or night via its direct hotline, as well as for drop-ins on weekdays during regular business hours. SHARE services are confidential and can be anonymous when desired. SHARE can also facilitate access to mental health or medical care (including accompanying students to the emergency room for evidence collection when needed), help with initiating formal and informal complaints, and assist students in contacting police. SHARE also offers on- going counseling and support. When requested, its staff works closely with the Title IX coordinators, the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, working hours. Some legal and medical options are the Yale Police Department, and other campus time-sensitive, so if you have been assaulted, we resources to best address the needs of community encourage you to call SHARE and/or the Yale Police members who have experienced sexual misconduct. as soon as possible. Counselors can talk with you If you wish to make use of SHARE’s services, you over the phone or meet you in person at Yale Health can call 203.432.2000 at any time for a phone or the Yale-New Haven Hospital Emergency Room. consultation or to set up an in-person appointment. You may also drop in on weekdays during regular

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Title IX Coordinators Programs, Valarie Stanley, serves as the Senior 203.432.6854 (9 am–5 pm weekdays) Deputy Title IX Coordinator for faculty and staff. provost.yale.edu/title-ix Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and See the inside back cover of this guide for additional Sciences, and each of the professional schools have contact information. designated deputy Title IX coordinators. These coordinators report to Dr. Spangler. Title IX 1 coordinators are senior administrators and faculty members throughout the University who: You may contact any coordinator at any time by email or phone. Some community members • Meet with students, faculty, and staff in order prefer to contact the Title IX coordinator that to answer questions related to issues of works directly with their school; others prefer to discrimination on the basis of sex or gender or contact a coordinator from another area of campus. sexual misconduct All coordinators are available to the entire Yale • Inform Yale community members about all of community. You can find their contact information their options for resolving complaints on page 29 of this booklet or online at • Coordinate resources, accommodations, remedies, provost.yale.edu/title-ix/coordinators. and interim measures • Investigate complaints to the degree possible and 1 consistent with the complainant’s wishes Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (see appendix) • Ensure that the University responds effectively to protects people from discrimination on the basis of sex or each complaint gender in educational programs and activities at institutions • Track and monitor incidents, identify patterns and that receive federal funding. Discrimination on the basis of systemic issues, and take steps to address them sex or gender includes sexual harassment, sexual assault, and other forms of sexual misconduct. The University Title IX Coordinator, Stephanie Spangler, has campus-wide responsibility for all University-Wide Committee (UWC) policies, processes, and programs that address 203.432.4449 (9 am–5 pm weekdays) and prevent discrimination on the basis of sex or uwc.yale.edu gender, including sexual misconduct. In addition to Dr. Spangler, Assistant Provost Jason Killheffer The University-Wide Committee on Sexual serves as the Senior Deputy Title IX Coordinator and Misconduct (UWC) is an internal disciplinary board helps to oversee the University’s Title IX programs. available to students, faculty, and staff across the The Director of the Office for university for complaints of sexual misconduct, as

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described in the committee’s procedures. The UWC is an accessible, representative, and trained body established to fairly and expeditiously address formal complaints of sexual misconduct. UWC members can answer inquiries about procedures and the University definition of sexual misconduct. In cases where formal resolution is sought, investigations are conducted by professional, impartial fact finders.

Yale Police 101 Ashmun Street 203.432.4400 (24/7 availability) your.yale.edu/community/public-safety/police/ sensitive-crimes-support

The Yale Police Department (YPD) operates 24/7 and is comprised of highly-trained, sworn police officers, including a Sensitive Crimes & Support Coordinator. The YPD has the capacity to perform full criminal investigations. In addition, the YPD can provide information on available victims’ assistance services, safety planning, and other related issues. The YPD works closely with the New Haven Police Department, the New Haven State’s Attorney, the SHARE Center, the University’s Title IX coordinators, and various other departments within the University.

Contact information for additional resources is provided at the end of this guide.

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Preventing sexual misconduct is a community- wide effort. Everyone can play a role in making our campus safer and more respectful.

General Strategies

• Trust your instincts. If there are elements of an environment that feel uncomfortable, trust your instincts and seek help. Call on friends, colleagues, and other allies, including SHARE, Title IX coordinators, supervisors, deans, and professors, to support you.

• Be a role model. A community free from sexual misconduct requires effort from all of us. Engage respectfully with your peers and colleagues, and think carefully about how words or actions that may seem insignificant to you could hurt someone else. Set high standards for your community and model the behavior you expect.

• Look out for people around you. Simply stepping in to act when you see a troubling situation can make a big difference. If you see something that causes you concern—even if you’re not sure—check in and seek help, if necessary. SHARE, Title IX coordinators, and/or Would you like to get involved in the Yale Police can always guide you on how to help. Yale’s prevention efforts? Please visit smr.yale.edu/get-involved

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• Respond to even minor issues. Serious intimidation, and threats seriously, even if they situations can often be averted by responding seem small alone. Stalking can sometimes at the first sign of trouble. SHARE, Title IX seem merely annoying or even flattering, but coordinators, and the Yale Police are always its intrusive nature must be taken seriously, available to discuss such incidents. If you are whether it is online or in person. In cases of in a position of authority, you are responsible intimate partner violence (IPV), be on the for establishing and maintaining a respectful lookout for patterns of isolation, control, and environment. If you are a supervisor, you must intimidation. report any sexual misconduct that comes to • Be safe. In an emergency, you should always your attention to a Title IX coordinator. call 911. If you need to make a longer-term plan • Communicate with your sexual and romantic for your safety, SHARE, Title IX coordinators, partners. Open discussion of desires and limits and the Yale Police can help. is a critical part of building a positive sexual culture. Take any signs of reluctance or refusal, Bystander Intervention including nonverbal signs, very seriously. If Sexual violence is often enabled by cultural the signs are ambiguous, be sure to stop, and patterns of disrespect and pressure—patterns that then check in or ask questions. In general, it’s let aggression pass unchecked. However, you can easy to tell if someone is enthusiastic about an interrupt these patterns. Interventions don’t have encounter or not. to be large or dramatic. Small interventions—asking • Take sexual pressure seriously. Many sexual a friend to leave a party with you, redirecting a assaults begin with low-level sexual pressure. conversation with a joke, or acting as a third Though sexual pressure and disregard don’t wheel—are very effective. always lead to assault, you deserve to have your boundaries respected, not pushed. Steps to Action: • Pay attention: be alert to things that make

• Be alert to patterns, not just isolated actions. you uncomfortable. In particular, look out for Sometimes, sexual misconduct can take the signs of sexual pressure, unwanted attention, form of patterns of behaviors that might not disrespect, extreme drunkenness, or signs of be worrying in isolation, but that together fear and confusion. Keep an eye on anything constitute a problem. Take repeated disrespect, worrying; don’t ignore “little” things.

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• Decide: should someone intervene? Does • Disrupt the situation: Intrude. Make a joke. the situation seem to be making someone Change the topic. Spill something. Be a third uncomfortable? Does someone need help? wheel. If you can, check in with whomever you’re • Name the problem: Acknowledging that aiming to help—but if you can’t, trust your there are troubling dynamics at play can go instincts. a long way. • Make a plan: fit your intervention to the • Check in again later: Some interventions are situation. Determine who is in the best one-off occurrences; others may be ongoing. position to act. You can call on friends, allies, Consider checking in with the person you hosts, and authority figures, or you can do helped to see how they are doing. something yourself. When’s the best moment? Now? Later? Be creative and strategic. • Above all — be safe and remember that small interventions can be the most • Make it happen: follow your plan, and be ready effective. Act early, act often, but if you to get help if you need it. Look for allies, and think you are in danger, step back and be alert for others trying to help. Start with the get help. smallest possible intervention. Act even if you feel awkward or nervous.

Techniques to Try: • De-escalate. Change the topic. Don’t laugh at inappropriate jokes. Shift the focus away from the problem.

• Offer help. Signal your concern and willingness to act. It’s okay if you are turned down at first or altogether: simply offering to help can change the dynamics.

• Slow things down: If a situation seems troubling, give people time to extricate themselves, if that’s what they want.

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Communication and Consent Educators (CCEs) develop skills for effective interventions, and work on strategies for avoiding problems altogether. CCE Yale College teams often collaborate with other student groups yale.edu/cce to change the campus environment, reimagining [email protected] traditional events and practices to maximize The CCEs are a diverse group of undergraduates opportunities for our ideals to flourish. who work together to foster a more positive sexual CCEs run workshops for all freshmen and and social climate on the Yale College campus. The sophomores on consent and bystander intervention. CCEs aim to end sexual violence by transforming Most of their work, though, takes place within their our community into one where respect, mutuality, own communities and residential colleges. The CCEs and mindfulness are the norms. A safe campus is are always happy to collaborate with student groups, critically important, but the CCEs aim higher: for so get in touch with your college CCEs if you have Yale to be a place where everyone can thrive. ideas. Through workshops, trainings, and conversations, the CCEs help students identify troubled dynamics,

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Understanding Confidentiality

Privacy concerns are often at the forefront when someone has experienced sexual misconduct. It is useful to know the confidentiality that individuals can expect from each of the University resources. University officials are trained in the importance of confidentiality and the protocols for maintaining that confidentiality.

Information you share with SHARE counselors, healthcare providers, and chaplains

When you consult them in their professional capacities, SHARE counselors, healthcare providers (including mental health practitioners), and chaplains will not reveal any information you share without your explicit permission except in rare circumstances where your or another person’s health and safety is at imminent risk.

Information you share with the Title IX coordinators

Title IX coordinators will not share identifying information with anyone beyond the Title IX office without your permission, except in the rare event of an immediate or ongoing threat to your safety or community safety. In cases of sexual assault or other criminal conduct, Title IX coordinators will share non-identifying details about the incident with the Yale Police Department for statistical purposes (as required by the federal ), and will advise you about the resources and assistance that the police can provide.

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Title IX coordinators will work with you to address Information you share with the Yale Police your immediate concerns, connect you with Department (YPD) appropriate resources, review the complaint options The Yale Police Department (YPD) offers confidential (formal, informal, criminal) available for further consultations regarding possible criminal action, and help facilitate those actions at your investigation. Ordinarily, the decision about whether request. Many actions and accommodations can be or not to press criminal charges is up to you. In cases taken or made while protecting your identity. Some of sexual misconduct, the YPD will share information accommodations may require the Title IX coordinator with the Title IX office, and will advise you about the to work with other University personnel (e.g., deans, resources and assistance the University can provide. HR, housing staff), but they will only be pursued with your permission. “Messages from the Chief”

You may ask that a complaint be pursued without Under the federal Clery Act, the University is revealing your name or other identifying details. responsible for issuing “timely warnings,” also Your request will be accommodated to the extent known as “Messages from the Chief,” in response to possible, but an anonymous complaint on its some reports. Only specific crimes require a timely own cannot be the basis for disciplinary action. In warning; the crime must have occurred within the situations where a confidentiality request limits an officially-designated campus area; and there must investigation or prevents the University from taking be a serious or ongoing threat to the community. If direct disciplinary action, the University will take you report an incident that meets these criteria, a other reasonable steps to minimize the effects of the message will be sent out from the Chief of Police. The reported misconduct and to prevent its recurrence. warning message will contain a brief description of You may also ask that a complaint not be pursued. the crime, and may indicate the location where the However, in the rare event of an immediate or incident occurred. It will not include any information ongoing threat, the University may need to take that would identify you or other individuals involved. additional action to protect your safety and the safety of others. Information you share with individuals with reporting responsibilities Information you share with the University-Wide Certain individuals on campus have a responsibility Committee (UWC) to report allegations of sexual misconduct to a UWC members observe strict confidentiality with Title IX coordinator. These individuals include all respect to all information they receive about a case. faculty, certain administrators, UWC members, and

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students in official roles such as Communication and Know Your Options Consent Educators (CCEs), Peer Liaisons, and First- Sexual assault, harassment, and other forms of Year Counselors. When a Title IX coordinator receives sexual misconduct can have profound impacts on information about an incident of sexual misconduct, personal, professional, and academic life. If you they may reach out to you to assess the situation have experienced sexual misconduct of any kind, and to offer you options and accommodations. the University urges you to take action to seek Some individuals, known as Campus Security the help and support that you need, which may Authorities (CSAs) under the federal Clery Act, also include making a report and pursuing disciplinary have a responsibility to report allegations of sexual and criminal sanctions. misconduct to the Yale Police Department without Individual experiences of sexual misconduct vary including identifying details. A CSA is defined by law widely, as do people’s needs. At Yale, you have choices as a member of the campus police/public safety and about what to do and when – and people who can security, any individual who has responsibility for explain the options, answer your questions, and campus security or an individual who has significant support you along the way. responsibility for student and campus activities.

Publications Steps you should consider taking: • Get support. You should not have to cope with The University issues regular publications—such this experience alone. There are many places as the semi-annual Report of Complaints of Sexual to turn, but SHARE offers particular expertise. Misconduct and the annual Campus Safety Report— The SHARE staff can provide information and to inform the community and the public in general advocacy as well as support, all with strict about complaints of sexual misconduct brought confidentiality. SHARE can also help you take to the University’s attention. These reports are any of the steps below. You may contact SHARE written with great care to preserve the privacy of 24/7 at (203) 432-2000. the individuals involved by omitting names and providing only minimal descriptions or statistical • Seek medical treatment. If you have experi- summaries. enced physical or sexual violence, it’s import- ant to get care as soon as possible. Even if you feel okay, you may be injured or at risk of contracting a sexually transmitted infection or becoming pregnant. If you were sexually

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assaulted within the past 72 hours, you should Making a report does not ordinarily commit strongly consider having physical forensic you to pursuing a complaint; in rare situations evidence collected at the time of your medical where there is an immediate or ongoing threat examination. SHARE will coordinate with the to individual or community safety, a Title IX hospital emergency room and the police to coordinator may take independent action. make arrangements and guide you through • Pursue a complaint. Individuals come to the this process. complaint process with different needs and • Collect and preserve evidence. Prompt goals, so it is important that there is a range collection of physical forensic evidence is of options for pursuing a complaint. Title IX particularly important, as discussed above. coordinators, the UWC, and the YPD work hard, Other pieces of evidence are also important along with SHARE, to streamline and coordi- to save. Voicemail, emails, and text messages, nate complaint processes, so it does not matter for example, can be very powerful in building where you begin. The options are not mutually a strong case. Even if you don’t initially plan to exclusive; you can pursue any or all of them as pursue a disciplinary or criminal complaint, it is you wish. You will always be part of the deci- good to keep those options open by retaining sion-making process and the choices regarding evidence. SHARE can help you to work with the whether or how to proceed are generally up to Title IX coordinators and the police to identify you (except in the rare event of an immediate evidence and understand collection processes. or ongoing threat to your safety or the safety • Report the incident. If you have experienced of the community). (or learned about) sexual misconduct involving See pages 18-19 for more details on reporting and a member of the Yale community, you may complaint processes. These details are also available at report to any Title IX coordinator, the UWC, smr.yale.edu. or the Yale Police. (See the Resources section • Continue to get support. Support can come for contact information.) By reporting the in many forms, be it from friends, family, or incident, you alert the University and enable professionals. You may reach out at any time to administrators to respond appropriately one of Yale’s mental health counselors, SHARE both to your case and to broader patterns of counselors, chaplains, or Title IX coordinators. concerning behavior. Reporting also allows you to discuss your options and gives you immediate access to various accommodations.

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Seeking Accommodations, Remedies, processes. In the absence of an immediate or ongoing and Protective Measures threat to individual or community safety, you may decide which among the available options you wish If you have experienced sexual misconduct, there to pursue. These options are not mutually exclusive. are steps the University can take to help minimize the impact of the incident, decrease the chance Whichever path(s) you choose, you may have an of recurrence, and provide a safe educational advisor present at every stage. SHARE staff members and work environment. Many steps can be taken are commonly chosen as advisors, but you may select regardless of whether or not you chose to pursue whomever you wish to fill this role. Respondents may a complaint. Usually, a Title IX coordinator will also have an advisor of their choice. All proceedings organize accommodations, remedies, and protective are designed to be fair, prompt, and impartial. measures; SHARE, the YPD, and Human Resources • Title IX Coordinators are often involved too. As always, your privacy will be safeguarded as these arrangements are made. The Title IX coordinators are employees to whom steps taken will be determined on a case-by-case students, faculty, and staff may go when they basis, responding to your needs, the nature of the have questions or would like to make a report incident, and other contextual factors, including the concerning issues of sexual misconduct and need to ensure individual and community safety. gender-based discrimination. Title IX coordinators Measures can include steps such as no contact orders, are available for community members to bring residential reassignments, changes to employment or their concerns and questions—no matter how big academic assignments, and temporary suspensions. or small—about a specific incident or the campus sexual climate in general. Pursuing a Complaint When you contact a Title IX coordinator you Complaints may be pursued with the Title IX can choose what information you would like coordinators, the University-Wide Committee, and to share with the coordinator. Based on the the Yale Police–all of whom receive annual and information shared, you and the coordinator can ongoing training on relevant laws, regulations, and work to address immediate concerns, especially disciplinary codes; the dynamics and patterns of safety, emotional well-being, and professional sexual misconduct; the importance of confidentiality, and academic requirements. (See “Seeking fair process, and impartiality; safety considerations Accommodations, Remedies, and Protective when determining interim measures; and Measures on page 18 for more information.) appropriate disciplinary and criminal sanctions. These Title IX coordinators can also assist in resolving officials coordinate closely to streamline complaint complaints. Title IX coordinators do not conduct 18 smr.yale.edu

formal hearings but may investigate complaints The full UWC procedures are available online at and work with the complainant and the uwc.yale.edu. There is also a set of videos made by respondent to achieve resolution of a complaint. undergraduates that offer an accessible overview Title IX coordinators may also help connect the for anyone in the community; these are available complainant or the respondent, when requested, at yale.edu/cce. to the SHARE Center, the University-Wide • Yale Police Committee, or the Yale Police. The Yale Police Department has sworn police You can contact any coordinator at any time by officers with full powers of law enforcement email or phone. You can find contact information who receive advanced training in crimes of for all of the University’s Title IX coordinators on interpersonal violence. They can assist in page 29 of this booklet or online at determining whether the conduct experienced provost.yale.edu/title-ix/coordinators. was criminal in nature, and launch an investigation • University-Wide Committee accordingly. If an incident occurs outside the YPD’s jurisdiction, the YPD can assist in contacting the As the disciplinary board for addressing formal appropriate alternative law enforcement agency. complaints of sexual misconduct, the University- Criminal proceedings use “beyond a reasonable Wide Committee uses an impartial fact-finder doubt” as the standard of evidence. to gather evidence and then holds a hearing to determine whether a violation of University policy has occurred, based on the “preponderance Concerns about Disciplinary of the evidence” standard (i.e., if it is more likely Consequences for Alcohol or Drug Use than not that such a violation occurred). Advisers The University recognizes that students who may accompany the complainant and respondent have been using alcohol and/or drugs may for support at every stage. be hesitant to report incidents of sexual Normally, the formal complaint process takes misconduct due to the fear of potential about 60 days. The chair may extend the process consequences for their own conduct. Therefore, if necessary due to illness, holidays, the absence any student who reports in good faith that of witnesses from campus, the complexity of the they witnessed or were the victim of sexual case, or competing demands on UWC members misconduct will not face disciplinary charges or decision makers. UWC sanctions can include for being under the influence of alcohol or mandated training, reprimand, probation, prohibited substances at the time of the suspension, and termination/expulsion. incident.

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The following summary of federal and state laws related to sexual misconduct is provided for reference only. For the Yale policies and definitions, please see the Yale Sexual Misconduct Policies and Definitions section in this guide. For additional information on Yale’s policies and resources, see the Sexual Misconduct Response website at smr.yale.edu.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 USC §1681)

No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

Connecticut General Statutes 10a-55m through 10a-55q

Connecticut laws on campus policies and procedures regarding sexual assault, stalking, and intimate partner violence.

20 U.S.C 1092(f)

Code as amended by the Campus SaVE Act of 2013.

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Sexual Assault of his/her age or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity. Federal Definition 42 U.S.C.A. § 13925. The term “sexual assault” means C. Sexual Assault With An Object—To use an any nonconsensual sexual act proscribed by Federal, object or instrument to unlawfully penetrate, tribal, or State law, including when the victim lacks however slightly, the genital or anal opening capacity to consent. of the body of another person, without the consent of the victim, including instances 20 U.S.C.A. § 1092. The term“sexual assault” means where the victim is incapable of giving consent an offense classified as a forcible or nonforcible sex because of his/her age or because of his/her offense under the uniform crime reporting system of temporary or permanent mental or physical the Federal Bureau of Investigation. incapacity.

Sex Offenses Definitions From the National D. Fondling—The touching of the private body Incident-Based Reporting System Edition of the parts of another person for the purpose of Uniform Crime Reporting Program sexual gratification, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim Sex Offenses—Any sexual act directed against is incapable of giving consent because of his/ another person, without the consent of the her age or because of his/her temporary or victim, including instances where the victim is permanent mental incapacity. incapable of giving consent. Sex Offenses—Nonforcible Unlawful, nonforcible A. Rape—The carnal knowledge of a person, sexual intercourse. without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of A. Incest—Nonforcible sexual intercourse giving consent because of his/her age or between persons who are related to each because of his/her temporary or permanent other within the degrees wherein marriage mental or physical incapacity. is prohibited by law.

B. Sodomy—Oral or anal sexual intercourse B. Statutory Rape—Nonforcible sexual with another person, without the consent intercourse with a person who is under the of the victim, including instances where the statutory age of consent. victim is incapable of giving consent because

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Connecticut Definition member or organ of the victim’s body, such person C.G.S. Sec. 53a-70. Sexual assault in the first degree: causes such injury to such victim, (3) under circum- Class B or A felony. (a) A person is guilty of sexual stances evincing an extreme indifference to human assault in the first degree when such person (1) com- life such person recklessly engages in conduct which pels another person to engage in sexual intercourse creates a risk of death to the victim, and thereby by the use of force against such other person or a causes serious physical injury to such victim, or (4) third person, or by the threat of use of force against such person is aided by two or more other persons such other person or against a third person which actually present. No person shall be convicted of sex- reasonably causes such person to fear physical injury ual assault in the first degree and aggravated sexual to such person or a third person, or (2) engages in assault in the first degree upon the same transaction sexual intercourse with another person and such but such person may be charged and prosecuted for other person is under thirteen years of age and the both such offenses upon the same information. actor is more than two years older than such person, C.G.S. Sec. 53a-71. Sexual assault in the second or (3) commits sexual assault in the second degree as degree: Class C or B felony. (a) A person is guilty provided in section 53a-71 and in the commission of of sexual assault in the second degree when such such offense is aided by two or more other persons person engages in sexual intercourse with another actually present, or (4) engages in sexual intercourse person and: (1) Such other person is thirteen years with another person and such other person is men- of age or older but under sixteen years of age and tally incapacitated to the extent that such other per- the actor is more than three years older than such son is unable to consent to such sexual intercourse. other person; or (2) such other person is impaired C.G.S. Sec. 53a-70a. Aggravated sexual assault in because of mental disability or disease to the the first degree: Class B or A felony. (a) A person is extent that such other person is unable to consent guilty of aggravated sexual assault in the first degree to such sexual intercourse; or (3) such other person when such person commits sexual assault in the is physically helpless; or (4) such other person is first degree as provided in section 53a-70, and in the less than eighteen years old and the actor is such commission of such offense (1) such person uses or person’s guardian or otherwise responsible for the is armed with and threatens the use of or displays or general supervision of such person’s welfare; or (5) represents by such person’s words or conduct that such other person is in custody of law or detained such person possesses a deadly weapon, (2) with in- in a hospital or other institution and the actor has tent to disfigure the victim seriously and permanent- supervisory or disciplinary authority over such other ly, or to destroy, amputate or disable permanently a person; or (6) the actor is a psychotherapist and

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such other person is (A) a patient of the actor and the C.G.S. Sec. 53a-72a. Sexual assault in the third degree: sexual intercourse occurs during the psychotherapy Class D or C felony. (a) A person is guilty of sexual session, (B) a patient or former patient of the actor assault in the third degree when such person (1) and such patient or former patient is emotionally compels another person to submit to sexual contact dependent upon the actor, or (C) a patient or former (A) by the use of force against such other person or patient of the actor and the sexual intercourse occurs a third person, or (B) by the threat of use of force by means of therapeutic deception; or (7) the actor against such other person or against a third person, accomplishes the sexual intercourse by means of which reasonably causes such other person to fear false representation that the sexual intercourse is physical injury to himself or herself or a third person, for a bona fide medical purpose by a health care or (2) engages in sexual intercourse with another professional; or (8) the actor is a school employee person whom the actor knows to be related to him and such other person is a student enrolled in a or her within any of the degrees of kindred specified school in which the actor works or a school under the in section 46b-21. jurisdiction of the local or regional board of education C.G.S. Sec. 53a-72b. Sexual assault in the third degree which employs the actor; or (9) the actor is a coach with a firearm: Class C or B felony. (a) A person is in an athletic activity or a person who provides guilty of sexual assault in the third degree with a intensive, ongoing instruction and such other person firearm when such person commits sexual assault in is a recipient of coaching or instruction from the actor the third degree as provided in section 53a-72a, and and (A) is a secondary school student and receives in the commission of such offense, such person uses such coaching or instruction in a secondary school or is armed with and threatens the use of or displays setting, or (B) is under eighteen years of age; or (10) or represents by such person’s words or conduct that the actor is twenty years of age or older and stands such person possesses a pistol, revolver, machine in a position of power, authority or supervision over gun, rifle, shotgun or other firearm. No person shall such other person by virtue of the actor’s professional, be convicted of sexual assault in the third degree legal, occupational or volunteer status and such and sexual assault in the third degree with a firearm other person’s participation in a program or activity, upon the same transaction but such person may be and such other person is under eighteen years of charged and prosecuted for both such offenses upon age; or (11) such other person is placed or receiving the same information. services under the direction of the Commissioner of Developmental Services in any public or private C.G.S. Sec. 53a-73a. Sexual assault in the fourth facility or program and the actor has supervisory or degree: Class A misdemeanor or class D felony. (a) disciplinary authority over such other person. A person is guilty of sexual assault in the fourth

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degree when: (1) Such person subjects another or (6) such person is a school employee and subjects person to sexual contact who is (A) under thirteen another person to sexual contact who is a student years of age and the actor is more than two years enrolled in a school in which the actor works or a older than such other person, or (B) thirteen years of school under the jurisdiction of the local or regional age or older but under fifteen years of age and the board of education which employs the actor; or (7) actor is more than three years older than such other such person is a coach in an athletic activity or a person, or (C) mentally incapacitated or impaired person who provides intensive, ongoing instruction because of mental disability or disease to the extent and subjects another person to sexual contact who that such other person is unable to consent to such is a recipient of coaching or instruction from the sexual contact, or (D) physically helpless, or (E) less actor and (A) is a secondary school student and than eighteen years old and the actor is such other receives such coaching or instruction in a secondary person’s guardian or otherwise responsible for the school setting, or (B) is under eighteen years of age; general supervision of such other person’s welfare, or (8) such person subjects another person to sexual or (F) in custody of law or detained in a hospital or contact and (A) the actor is twenty years of age or other institution and the actor has supervisory or older and stands in a position of power, authority or disciplinary authority over such other person; or supervision over such other person by virtue of the (2) such person subjects another person to sexual actor’s professional, legal, occupational or volunteer contact without such other person’s consent; or status and such other person’s participation in a (3) such person engages in sexual contact with program or activity, and (B) such other person is an animal or dead body; or (4) such person is a under eighteen years of age; or (9) such person psychotherapist and subjects another person to subjects another person to sexual contact who is sexual contact who is (A) a patient of the actor and placed or receiving services under the direction of the sexual contact occurs during the psychotherapy the Commissioner of Developmental Services in any session, or (B) a patient or former patient of the actor public or private facility or program and the actor and such patient or former patient is emotionally has supervisory or disciplinary authority over such dependent upon the actor, or (C) a patient or former other person. patient of the actor and the sexual contact occurs by means of therapeutic deception; or (5) such person Sexual Harassment subjects another person to sexual contact and accomplishes the sexual contact by means of false Federal Definition representation that the sexual contact is for a bona 29 C.F.R §1604.11. (a) Harassment on the basis of sex fide medical purpose by a health care professional; is a violation of section 703 of title VII. Unwelcome

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sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and acts of non-employees, with respect to sexual other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature harassment of employees in the workplace, constitute sexual harassment when (1) submission where the employer (or its agents or supervisory to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly employees) knows or should have known of a term or condition of an individual’s employment, the conduct and fails to take immediate and (2) submission to or rejection of such conduct by appropriate corrective action. In reviewing these an individual is used as the basis for employment cases the Commission will consider the extent of the decisions affecting such individual, or (3) such employer’s control and any other legal responsibility conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably which the employer may have with respect to the interfering with an individual’s work performance conduct of such non-employees. or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive (f) Prevention is the best tool for the elimination working environment. of sexual harassment. An employer should take (b) In determining whether alleged conduct all steps necessary to prevent sexual harassment constitutes sexual harassment, the Commission will from occurring, such as affirmatively raising the look at the record as a whole and at the totality of subject, expressing strong disapproval, developing the circumstances, such as the nature of the sexual appropriate sanctions, informing employees of advances and the context in which the alleged their right to raise and how to raise the issue of incidents occurred. The determination of the legality harassment under title VII, and developing methods of a particular action will be made from the facts, on to sensitize all concerned. a case by case basis. (g) Other related practices: Where employment (c) [Reserved] opportunities or benefits are granted because of an individual’s submission to the employer’s sexual (d) With respect to conduct between fellow advances or requests for sexual favors, the employer employees, an employer is responsible for acts of may be held liable for unlawful sex discrimination sexual harassment in the workplace where the against other persons who were qualified for but employer (or its agents or supervisory employees) denied that employment opportunity or benefit. knows or should have known of the conduct, unless it can show that it took immediate and appropriate Connecticut Definition corrective action. C.G.S. Sec. 46a-60. Discriminatory employment (e) An employer may also be responsible for the practices prohibited. (a) It shall be a discriminatory practice in violation of this section:

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(8) For an employer, by the employer or the receiving grant monies, or by any other person employer’s agent, for an employment agency, by against an adult or youth victim who is protected itself or its agent, or for any labor organization, by from that person’s acts under the domestic or family itself or its agent, to harass any employee, person violence laws of the jurisdiction. seeking employment or member on the basis (10) The term “dating violence” means violence of sex or gender identity or expression. “Sexual committed by a person— harassment” shall, for the purposes of this section, (A) who is or has been in a social relationship of a be defined as any unwelcome sexual advances or romantic or intimate nature with the victim; and requests for sexual favors or any conduct of a sexual nature when (A) submission to such conduct is made (B) where the existence of such a relationship shall either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of be determined based on a consideration of the an individual’s employment, (B) submission to or following factors: rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as (i) The length of the relationship. the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual, or (C) such conduct has the purpose or (ii) The type of relationship. effect of substantially interfering with an individual’s work performance or creating an intimidating, (iii) The frequency of interaction between the hostile or offensive working environment. persons involved in the relationship. Connecticut Definition Intimate Partner Violence C.G.S. Sec. 10a-55m. “Intimate partner violence” Federal Definition means any physical or sexual harm against an individual by a current or former spouse of or person 42 U.S.C.A. § 13925. (8) The term “domestic violence” in a dating relationship with such individual that includes felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence results from any action by such spouse or such committed by a current or former spouse or intimate person that may be classified as a sexual assault partner of the victim, by a person with whom the under section 53a-70, 53a-70a, 53a-70b, 53a-71, victim shares a child in common, by a person who 53a-72a, 53a-72b or 53a-73a, stalking under section is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the 53a-181c, 53a-181d or 53a-181e, or family violence as victim as a spouse or intimate partner, by a person designated under section 46b-38h. similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction

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Stalking (1) Such person knowingly engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would Federal Definition cause a reasonable person to fear for such person’s 42 U.S.C. § 13925. The term “stalking” means physical safety or the physical safety of a third engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person; or person that would cause a reasonable person to-- (2) Such person intentionally, and for no legitimate (A) fear for his or her safety or the safety of others; or purpose, engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person (B) suffer substantial emotional distress. to fear that such person’s employment, business or Connecticut Definition career is threatened, where (A) such conduct consists C.G.S. Sec. 53a-181c. Stalking in the first degree: Class of the actor telephoning to, appearing at or initiating D felony. (a) A person is guilty of stalking in the first communication or contact at such other person’s degree when he commits stalking in the second place of employment or business, provided the actor degree as provided in section 53a-181d and (1) such was previously and clearly informed to cease such person has previously been convicted of this section conduct, and (B) such conduct does not consist of or section 53a-181d, or (2) such conduct violates a constitutionally protected activity. court order in effect at the time of the offense, or (3) C.G.S. Sec. 53a-181e. Stalking in the third degree: Class the other person is under sixteen years of age. B misdemeanor. (a) A person is guilty of stalking in C.G.S. Sec. 53a-181d. Stalking in the second degree: the third degree when he recklessly causes another Class A misdemeanor. (a) For the purposes of this person to reasonably fear for his physical safety by section, “course of conduct” means two or more wilfully and repeatedly following or lying in wait for acts, including, but not limited to, acts in which a such other person. person directly, indirectly or through a third party, by any action, method, device or means, (1) follows, lies in wait for, monitors, observes, surveils, threatens, harasses, communicates with or sends unwanted gifts to, a person, or (2) interferes with a person’s property. (b) A person is guilty of stalking in the second degree when:

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Mental Health & Counseling University Chaplain’s Office provides care related to the psycholog- provides confidential pastoral care to ical concerns of undergraduate, gradu- individuals and the Yale community in ate, and professional school students. times of crisis. 203.432.0290 203.432.1128 chaplain.yale.edu Office for Equal Opportunity Programs can assist with concerns related to Resources Beyond Yale affirmative action, equal opportunity, Sexual Assault Crisis Services sexual harassment, racial harassment, offers support services and support or fairness in admissions or groups for survivors of sexual violence employment at Yale. and their loved ones. 203.432.0849 1.888.999.5545 (English) equalopportunity.yale.edu www.womenfamilies.org/Content/ See inside front cover for Office of International Students Sexual_Assault_Crisis_Services.asp primary resources and Scholars RAINN Hotline serves as a resource on immigration is the nation’s largest anti-sexual matters and is Yale’s liaison to the U.S. Communication & Consent Educators assault organization. federal agencies that are concerned are a large, diverse group of 800.656.4673 (hotline) or 202.544.1034 with matters related to international undergraduates working together to www.rainn.org foster a more positive sexual and social students and scholars studying and climate in Yale College. working at Yale. The Umbrella Center for Domestic yale.edu/cce 203.432.2305 Violence Services oiss.yale.edu provides services for victims and their Counseling and Support Services children. Office of LGBTQ Resources is a free, confidential program provided 203.736.2601 provides education, outreach and to employees and their families by www.bhcare.org/page/16596--Center- support around sexual orientation and Magellan Health Services. for-Domestic-Violence-Services 1.800.327.9240 gender identity. 203.432.0309 New Haven Legal Assistance Human Resource Generalists lgbtq.yale.edu Association can assist staff with matters related to provides services to those otherwise Resource Office on Disabilities policy, administration and employee unable to obtain legal counsel. facilitates individual accommodations relations. 203.946.4811 203.432.5552 for all students with disabilities. 203.432.2324 New Haven Police Department rod.yale.edu works closely with the Yale Police. 203.946.6333 www.cityofnewhaven.com/police

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The Title IX coordinator in your school or unit may be best able to help you. However, you may contact any of the Title IX coordinators. See page 8 for more information about the role of a Title IX coordinator.

University Title IX Coordinator Divinity School School of Medicine Stephanie Spangler, Deputy Provost for Lisabeth Huck, Registrar Rosemarie Fisher, Director for Resident/ Health Affairs and Academic Integrity [email protected] Fellow Well-being [email protected] 203.432.5312 [email protected] 203.432.6854 203.688.1449 School of Drama Merle Waxman, Associate Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean Senior Deputy Title IX Coordinators [email protected] [email protected] For Faculty and Staff 203.737.4100 203.432.4781 Valarie Stanley, Director, Office of Equal School of Music Opportunity Programs School of Engineering and Applied Stefanie Parkyn, Chief of Staff [email protected] Science [email protected] 203.432.0849 Vince Wilczynski, Deputy Dean 203.432.4160 [email protected] Jason Killheffer, Assistant Provost 203.432.4221 [email protected] School of Nursing Lois Sadler, Professor 203.432.6854 School of Forestry & Environmental [email protected] Studies 203.737.2561 Deputy Title IX Coordinators Alyssa Student, Assistant Director of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Student Services School of Public Health Michelle Nearon, Associate Dean [email protected] Melinda Pettigrew, Associate Professor and Director 203.436.9631 and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs [email protected] [email protected] 203.432.1301 Law School 203.737.7667 Ellen Cosgrove, Associate Dean School of Architecture [email protected] Yale College Marilyn Weiss, Registrar and 203.432.7646 Ksenia Sidorenko Admissions Administrator Doug Kysar, Professor of Law and [email protected] [email protected] Management 203.432.6854 203.432.1023 [email protected] 203.436.8970 School of Art Sandra Burns, Lecturer For the most up to date contact School of Management [email protected] information of the Rebecca Udler, Director of Academic 203.764.0477 Affairs and Student Life Title IX coordinators, visit [email protected] provost.yale.edu/title-ix/coordinators 203.432.7501

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