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Title IX

Camden County College is committed to providing a work and academic environment that promotes personal integrity, civility, and mutual respect in an environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, which includes all forms of sexual misconduct. Sex discrimination violates an individual’s fundamental rights and personal dignity. Camden County College considers sex discrimination in all of its forms to be a serious offense. This policy refers to all forms of sex discrimination committed against students, including but not limited to: unfair treatment based on sex, sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual misconduct, and sexual violence by other students, employees, or third parties.

What is Title IX?

Title IX is a federal civil rights law passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. This law protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance. Title IX states that:

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.

Title IX applies to any institution receiving federal financial assistance from the Department of Education, including state and local educational agencies. Educational programs and activities that receive federal funds from the Department of Education must operate in a nondiscriminatory manner. Also, a recipient may not retaliate against any person for opposing an unlawful educational practice or policy, or because a person made charges, testified or participated in any complaint action under Title IX.

Download Camden County College Title IX Policy and Procedures


Camden County College’s Sexual Harassment Policy

Policy # 340- Prohibiting Sexual Contact and Harassment, Sexual Violence, Relationship Violence and stalking

Title IX Coordinator

Camden County College has a designated team of responsible employees who received Title IX training and are available to help in cases of sexual harassment, sexual violence, or other unwelcome sexual behavior which occurs on campus or during activities related to school, such as athletic events.

Overseeing the team of trained employees is the college’s Title IX Coordinator.

The Title IX Coordinator is responsible for coordinating a response to all complaints involving possible sexual discrimination.

If a case of sexual harassment or sexual violence occurs, CCC will promptly and equitably investigate under Title IX to ascertain what happened. We are also required to implement certain actions to resolve the situation.

Title IX Coordinator

Executive Dean of Student Affairs
Taft Hall, Office 236 – Blackwood Campus
Phone: 856-227-7200, Ext. 4371
Email: adalyeimer@annasimmerleindds.com


How to Report a Violation

If this is an emergency, please CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY

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Emergency Assistance

Call Public Safety: (856) 374-5089

Emergency Assistance on Campus – Dial 7777

Or Dial 911

 

Important Definitions and Examples

Complaint

A complaint brought under this Policy.

Complainant

The alleged victim of an act of Prohibited Conduct, whether reported by the alleged victim or by a third party.

Complicity

Any act that knowingly aids, facilitates, promotes, or encourages the commission of Prohibited Conduct by another person.

Confidential Resources

Any person who has a legal obligation to protect confidentiality when acting in a professional capacity unless there is an imminent threat to health or safety or other legal basis for disclosure. Confidential Resources include licensed mental-health counselors, pastoral counselors, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists.

Consent

Words or actions that demonstrate an affirmative, knowing and voluntary agreement to engage in a mutually agreed-upon sexual act. Consent must be informed and freely given by a person aged 16 years or older. Consent cannot be given when it is forced, coerced, or when a person is physically and/or mentally incapable of giving consent. For example, a person who is substantially impaired by drugs or alcohol may not be able to consent.

Consent is an active, on-going process. It can be withdrawn at any time, and consent for one sexual act does not imply consent for another subsequent sexual act. Consent, a lack of consent, or a withdrawal of consent can be expressed by words, actions, or both. For example, verbal silence or the absence of physical resistance does not automatically mean someone has consented to a sexual act; nor is physical resistance required for a person to verbally communicate a lack of consent or to withdraw consent.

Some of the key points regarding Consent include:

  • Consent to one form of sexual activity does not automatically imply consent to any other form of sexual activity;
  • Consent may be withdrawn at any time;
  • Previous relationships or prior consent does not automatically imply consent to future sexual acts;
  • Consent cannot be given by an individual who one knows to be, or, based on the circumstances, should reasonably have known to be, substantially impaired; and
  • Intoxication is not a basis for failing to obtain Consent.

Cyberstalking

A form of Stalking in which electronic media, such as the Internet, email, social networks, text messages, cell phones, or other electronic devices are used.

Dating Violence

Violence committed by a person who is or who has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim. The existence of such a relationship will be determined based on the Complainant’s statement, and with consideration of the length of the relationship, type of relationship, and frequency of interaction between the persons in the relationship. Dating Violence includes, but is not limited to, sexual or physical abuse or the threat of such abuse.
Dating Violence does not include conduct that constitutes Domestic Violence.

Discrimination

The treatment of a member of Camden County College less favorably because that person is a member of or associates with a member of a protected class. The College prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, reproductive health decision, national origin, age (over 40), disability (mental or physical), genetic information, marital status, family responsibilities, victim of domestic violence, sexual offense, or stalking, or veteran status.

Violence

Violence committed by a current or former intimate partner of the victim or by any person against a victim who is protected from the person’s acts under the domestic or family-violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the act of violence occurred. Domestic Violence includes, but is not limited to, sexual or physical abuse or the threat of such abuse.

Gender-Based Harassment

A form of Sexual Harassment and refers to unwelcome conduct based on an individual’s actual or perceived sex, including harassment based on gender identity or nonconformity with sex stereotypes, and not necessarily involving conduct of a sexual nature.

Hostile Environment

Results from unwelcome conduct that is sufficiently severe, pervasive, or persistent that it interferes with or limits the ability of a member of the College community to participate in, or receive benefits, services, or opportunities from the College’s programs or activities.

Incapacitated

A state in which an individual cannot make rational, reasonable decisions because the individual lacks the capacity to give knowing Consent (e.g., to understand the “who, what, when, where, why, or how”) of his or her sexual interaction. Examples include, but are not limited to, being: unconscious; asleep; voluntarily or involuntarily intoxicated; or use of any drug, intoxicant, or controlled substance. An individual who is incapacitated cannot give Consent.

Interim Measures

Reasonably available and feasible measures, accommodations, or steps the College may take while a Complaint is pending in order to assist, support, and/or protect the Complainant, Respondent, or another person, and/or to protect the integrity of the investigation and resolution process.

Non-Consensual Sexual Contact

Any intentional sexual touching, however slight, with any body part or object, by an individual upon another that is without Consent. Sexual cont