Reporting

1. Report directly to the Title IX Coordinator by emailing [email protected]
2. Fill out the online Title IX Report Form
3. Talk to a mandatory reporter, which include most faculty, staff, and Community Assistants (CAs)
4. The Victim Advocate in the Center for Gender Equity can explain the reporting process and options for reporting before you decide whether you would like to report to Title IX

• If someone discloses or shares conduct or an incident that is or may be prohibited under our Title IX policy as sex-based discrimination, sex-based harassment, your report or complaint will be handled sensitively and privately by the Title IX staff.
• The Title IX Office will attempt to reach out by email to the person(s) who have shared they have experienced prohibited conduct to offer support and information about Title IX and how the Title IX Office can help. A person’s response to the email from the Title IX Coordinator is never obligated.
• The Title IX Office can offer supportive measures for reporting person(s) to work to provide needed support and to address immediate safety concerns. Such support services may include reasonable academic modifications, no contact orders, housing modifications, referrals to resources, etc.
• The Title IX Coordinator will discuss options available to address the conduct, including the formal investigation and hearing process and informal processes to address the asserted prohibited conduct; and options to also report to law enforcement, if the reporting person(s) so chooses.
• Retaliation against a person for a good faith report and complaint under Title IX or for participation in any Title IX investigation or proceeding under Albion College’s Title IX Policy is also a form of prohibited conduct. Retaliation is prohibited, unlawful, and will not be tolerated, and will be addressed through a formal grievance process. Peer retaliation is also considered prohibited conduct under this policy. The Title IX Office will support reporting person(s) from retaliation and will respond to complaints or reports of retaliation through the Title IX formal grievance process.

Here at Albion, most employees are required to report to the Title IX Office any knowledge or disclosures of sex-based discrimination, sex-based harassment, relationship violence, sexual assault or stalking that involves Albion’s students, faculty, or employees. The only exception to the mandated reporting obligation to the Title IX Office is if the employee is a confidential employee (counseling services and the Victim Advocate).

A confidential employee is an employee whose position of employment at Albion allows them confidentiality of information shared with or disclosed to them. These employees are typically licensed mental health or medical health professionals.  Confidential employee’s professional position at Albion is to perform confidential counseling or medical services that affords them confidentiality under the law. Confidential employees include licensed mental health professionals employed at Albion’s Counseling Services and the Victim Advocate in the Anna Howard Shaw Center for Gender Equity.