In addition to required annual trainings, the Office of Title IX Compliance and HEA Compliance offers customized trainings to empower our community with the awareness, knowledge, and skills to understand, intervene, and address sexual harassment at Illinois Tech. To request training from Title IX staff, please contact any of the Title IX team members—we’d love to work with you to strengthen this campus together!
- Marli Messner - Mmessner1@illinoistech.edu
- Ryley Andrews - Randrews2@illinoistech.edu
- Virginia Foster - Foster@illinoistech.edu
You can also check out our upcoming events online, in addition to keeping up to date with the Title IX office on our Instagram: @title9_illinoistech.
Student Trainings
- Hazing Awareness and Prevention
- Sexual Assault Prevention
- Alcohol Edu
Employee Trainings
- Title IX Sexual Harassment Prevention
- Respect Edu for Non-Supervisors
- Respect Edu for Supervisors
- Preventing Harassment Through Bystander Intervention
- Protecting Youth: Abuse & Neglect Prevention
Additional Trainings Available to Employees and Students
- Alcohol- and drug-facilitated sexual assault
- Bystander intervention
- Consent
- Cultural competency and Title IX
- Gender and sexual diversity
- Healthy relationships
- How to report or file a sexual harassment complaint
- On- and off-campus resources
- Pregnancy and parenting rights under Title IX
- Retaliation
- Sexual misconduct
- Title IX formal complaint process
- Title IX sexual harassment
- Trauma-informed response
Annual Training Materials
Any person serving as a Title IX coordinator or designee, Title IX investigator, Title IX decision-maker, Title IX appellate decision-maker, or Title IX informal resolution facilitator is required to receive training annually.
- Definition of sexual harassment
- Definition of Illinois Institute of Technology’s education program or activity
- Instructions and procedures for conducting impartial investigations and adjudications including hearings, appeals, and informal resolutions
- How to serve impartially and avoiding prejudgment of evidence, conflict of interest, and bias
- Technology used during live hearings
- How to determine relevant questions and evidence, including those surrounding a person’s sexual predisposition or prior sexual behavior
- How to identify and avoid sex stereotypes
- How to create a fair and impartial investigative reports that fairly summarize evidence
The materials used to train Title IX team members must be made publicly available and can be found below by year.