Title IX Investigator Training

Scheduled for September 22-23

SCICU is pleased to announce that Title IX Investigator Training will be held at Southern Wesleyan University in Central, SC on September 22 and 23. The sessions will be conducted from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day.

Attorneys Natasha Baker and Megan Farrell of Hirschfeld and Kraemer Employment Law will conduct the training. Training will consist of pre-session videos plus two full days of lectures and interactive exercises. Print and electronic materials will be made available prior to the classroom dates.

Training is limited to 100 participants from SCICU member colleges and universities. The cost per person will be $315.00 to include all training and materials and breakfast, lunch, and refreshments on both days. SWU has generously donated the cost of the meeting facility. On-line registration and payment is available at SCICU TIX Training.

This is a great opportunity for staff to attend required training at an in-state location and at a very reasonable price. The added benefit is that each member school can send a team, and those team members will be able to interact with teams from schools of similar size and circumstances. Training is designed for small liberal arts colleges and sensitive to faith-based missions.  

In addition to contracting for person to person in-state training, SCICU has negotiated enterprise contracts with three national providers of on-line sexual assault awareness and prevention programs for students, faculty, and staff: EverFi (Havens), Campus Answers, and Campus Clarity/Law Room.  

The final regulations implementing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) amendments to the Clery Campus Safety Act were effective July 1, 2015. SCICU will continue to work with campus Title IX coordinators in an effort to assist our member colleges and universities to meet their obligations and responsibilities under Title IX and to maintain safe living and working environments for the students, faculty and staff.

SCICU will have a chance to formally recognize the work of CIC and thank them for their latest gift when Mr. Ned Moore, Vice President of the Council of Independent Colleges, attends the October 6 meeting of the SCICU Board of Trustees.

The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) has selected Coker College, Limestone College, Presbyterian College, and Wofford College to participate in a new Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and Research.

The consortium is comprised of 42 colleges and universities that will work together to build digital collections using the cloud-based digital platform Shared Shelf. Developed by Artstor, Shared Shelf will enable member institutions to increase their capacity to store, preserve and catalogue collections of digital images, documents, audio and video files while streamlining administrative capabilities.

Funding for Shared Shelf is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Over the next four years, the grant will subsidize the use of Shared Shelf by Consortium member institutions as well as team participation in three workshops.

The four SCICU members will be working on the following projects:

Coker College
The project will allow the college to share digital collections and student and faculty projects and research. For example, students in a course on British Literature or World Literature receive assignments that are often confusing to them. Shared Shelf will provide students with a searchable database of previous students' responses to the assignments.

Limestone College
Limestone College will focus on digitizing and archiving student research and creative works including conference papers, poster sessions, studio art works, creative writing projects, and oral histories.

Presbyterian College
Presbyterian will work on three archival collections to support an overall theme: the Textile Mill Memory Project. The collection chronicles the history of Clinton Cotton Mills and other small businesses in upstate South Carolina and includes photographs, correspondence, clippings, and a complete run of the mill's newsletter between 1952 and 1984.

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