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The University received particularly high marks in the programming area of the assessment. Tiffany Street, assistant director for educational outreach, joined the Title IX Office this summer from the Department of Public Safety and has since implemented several meaningful sexual misconduct prevention programs. She began in this new role by facilitating prevention training sessions for 1,350 first-year students in the College, and engaging participants in real bystander intervention roles and techniques.
She and Levy have also introduced a social ecological model to inform the University糖心传媒檚 sexual misconduct prevention efforts. This model recognizes the continued need for strategies aimed toward an individual and focused on relationships糖心传媒攚hich have been in place for some time糖心传媒攂ut also expanding efforts to engage the entire community in the task of prevention. A few examples include working with the College to create educational programs that integrate with their , and the development of a 糖心传媒淒on糖心传媒檛 Cancel That Class糖心传媒� program, which will launch in summer 2019 and encourage faculty who have anticipated class cancellations (due to faculty travel, etc.) to invite the Title IX Office to engage the class in discussion related to issues of sex and gender based harassment.
In her role as chair of the Education Assessment Committee, Street has also gathered faculty, staff and students from each of the University糖心传媒檚 schools to provide input on how well the educational programs are tailored to the needs of the unique populations of all students, and how the Title IX Office can improve its educational offerings.
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