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Onboarding for new staff includes a thorough review of UW policies and procedures, a review of relevant documents and files, ongoing consultation with supervisors and colleagues, and training on technology and record-keeping systems. Personnel also regularly attend webinars and conferences relevant to their specific role and experience. Below are examples of the types of training received by Title IX personnel.

  • Association for Student Conduct Administrations: Annual Conference (2024)
  • The Clery Center: Intersections between Clery and Title IX (2024)
  • Office of Violence against Women (OVW) Campus Grant Technical Training Institute (2024)
  • National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA): Strategies Conference Preventing and Addressing Sexual Violence (2024)
  • National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM): Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education Annual Summit (2023)
  • UW Office for Minority Affairs & Diversity: Anti-Racist Leadership Institute: Power, Privilege, and Antiracist Leadership (2023)
  • Office of Violence against Women (OVW) Campus Grant: Bystander Intervention from an HBCU lens (2023)
  • Harborview Abuse & Trauma Center: Cultural Transformation and Gender-Based Violence (2023)
  • National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA): Developing & Implementing Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Initiatives – Strengths and Challenges (2023)
  • Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) OCR’s 2023 Higher Education Resolution Agreements (2023)
  • National Association of Clery Compliance Officers and Professionals (NACCOP): Safety & Risk Analysis for Sex-Based Harassment Emergency Removals (2023)
  • Domestic Violence Symposium: Strength at Home – A Trauma-Informed, Evidence-Based Intervention for Intimate Partner Violence (2023)
  • Harborview Abuse & Trauma Center (HATC): The Intersection of Fatphobia and Rape Culture: How Weight Stigma Influences Sexual Violence (2023)
  • Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA): Time with IX- Responding to Challenges from your Community (2023)
  • National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA): Title IX Coordinator Training – Online Course (2023)
  • National Association of Clery Compliance Officers and Professionals(NACCOP): 2nd Annual Mid-Year Conference (2023)
  • National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA): Strategies Conference (2023)
  • UW Professional & Organizational Development: De-escalation Basics (2023)
  • Grand River Solutions: From One Title IX Coordinator to Another: A Practical Approach to Navigating Beyond Compliance in the Post-Regulatory World (2023)
  • Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA): Time with IX -Title IX & DEI – The Intersection of Our Work Amidst Pending Regulations and Political Climate (2023)
  • Thompson Coburn LLP: Title IX Investigations and Informal Resolution Training Series (2023)
  • Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA): Pregnant and Parenting Students and Title IX (2023)
  • National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM): Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education Annual Summit (2022)
  • Office of Violence Against Women: Campus Grant CCRT – Training and Technical Institute TTI (2022)
  • National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM): Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education Annual Summit (2022)
  • UW Resilience Lab: Well-being for Life and Learning: Designing Learning Environments that Support the Whole Student (2022)
  • Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA): NPRiMer: Preparing for the 2023 Title IX Regulations: Training and Certification Course for Higher Education (2022)
  • Prevent Connect: Strengths-Based Prevention that Works (2022)
  • Association on Higher Education & Disability (AHEAD): The Intersection of Title IX and Disability Law (2022)
  • Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA): Title IX Coordinator & Administrator Level One Certification (June and July 2020)
  • Department of Education Office for Civil Rights: An introduction to the new regulations (May 2020)
  • D. Stafford & Associates: Title IX Coordinator/Investigator Certification (October 2018)

  • National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA): Title IX Coordinator Training: Jurisdiction and Other Threshold Topics (module 1) (2024)
  • National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA): Title IX Coordinator Training: Formal Complaints, Investigations & Grievance Procedures (module 2) (2024)
  • National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA): Title IX Coordinator Training: Policy and Training Obligations (module 3) (2024)
  • UW Human Resources: Implicit Bias Training (2024)
  • American Bar Association: Doxing, Bullying, and Sextortion: The Legal and Social Landscape of Technology Facilitated Harassment (2023)
  • WA State Bar Association: Effective Approaches in Working with Traumatized Clients (2023)
  • American Bar Association: Fostering Supportive Work Environments and Pronouns in the LGBTQ+ Community (2023)
  • Davis Wright Tremaine: The New Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and Key Considerations for WA Employers (2023)
  • D. Stafford and Associates: Title IX Investigator Tier 5 – Report writing (2023)
  • Grand River Solutions: Conducting Fair & Thorough Trauma-Informed Investigations (2023)
  • Perkins Coie LLP – WAL: The Delicate Task – How to Conduct a Trauma-Informed, Survivor-Centered Internal Investigation (2023)
  • American Bar Association: #MeToo Class Action & Derivative Suits Update (2023)
  • American Bar Association: Domestic Violence: A Primer on Accommodations and Discrimination in the Workplace (2023)
  • Perkins Coie LLP – WA: The Delicate Task: How to Conduct a Trauma-Informed, Survivor-Centered Internal Investigation (2023)
  • Karr Tuttle Campbell: Workplace Investigations (2023)
  • Harborview Abuse & Trauma Center (HATC): Verbal De-escalation (2023)
  • Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA): Time with IX: Ten Investigation Pitfalls and Best Practices to Avoid Them (2023)
  • Grand River Solutions: Conducting Fair & Thorough Trauma-Informed Investigations (2023)
  • T9 Mastered: Succeeding in Difficult Interviews (2023)
  • UWPD Campus Security Authority Training (CLERY) (2023)
  • National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA): Pregnancy Discrimination Law Update (2022)
  • TIX Education Specialists: New Proposed Regulations Overview (2022)
  • Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA): Special Edition Time with IX: Roe v. Wade and Title IX Implications (2022)
  • National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM): Department of Education Proposed Title IX Regulations (2022)
  • National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA): The Legal Implications of
  • Dobbs for College and University Clients (2022)
  • Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA): Time with IX: The Case for Mandatory Dismissals (2022)
  • National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA): Pregnancy Discrimination Law Update (2022)
  • Title IX Education Specialists: Washington Title IX Investigator Training (July 2019)
  • Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA): Civil Rights Investigator Level One Certification (February 2020) and Level Three Certification (May 2019)
  • National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA): Credibility and Investigations (September 2018); Higher Education Discrimination Law (April 2019)
  • Self-guided training for UW investigators of sexual misconduct allegations. Content includes information about the 2020 Department of Education federal regulations, including definitions, jurisdiction, investigator obligations, and how to assess formal complaints, conduct an investigation, and evaluate evidence.

  • Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA): NPRiMer – Preparing for the 2023 Title IX Regulations – Training and Certification Course for Higher Education (2023)
  • Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA): Rationale Writing Workshop for Decision-Makers and Investigators (2023)
  • TIX Education Specialists: Title IX Decision Maker Training (2022)
  • T9 Mastered: Training for Hearing Officers (March 2020); Conducting Remote Hearings (May 2020)
  • Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA): Hearing Officer and Decision-maker Certification (June 2019)
  • Title IX Education Specialists: Respondent Rights and Equity (March 2019)

Self-guided training for hearing and review officers (decision makers) in student conduct proceedings. Content includes general information about the 2020 Department of Education federal regulations as well as how to avoid bias, conflicts of interest, and prejudgment of facts, evaluate evidence, assess credibility, and conduct hearings or appeals.

Video overview of UW’s implementation of the 2020 Department of Education federal regulations. Content includes the 2-phase implementation strategy, communication plan, training, record-keeping, officials required to report, supportive measures, formal complaints, definitions of prohibited conduct, federal criteria & jurisdiction, and the federal regulations grievance process.