Title IX

Employees must promptly report sex or gender-based harassment, sexual violence, and/or retaliation to CRTC if they know of actual or suspected incidents. Western must take effective steps to end the behavior, prevent its recurrence, and address its effects.

Confidential support resources such as Survivor Advocacy Services, the Counseling and Wellness Center, the Student Health Center, and the Employee Assistance Program do not report what they learn to the Title IX Coordinator unless a complainant requests that they do so.

Western takes interim steps to protect all parties as necessary prior to the final outcome of the investigation. Even if a complainant requests confidentiality and a full investigation cannot be undertaken, support measures are available to the complainant.

Western has an established grievance procedure to investigate complaints which uses the preponderance of evidence standard, includes an equal opportunity for both parties to present witnesses and other evidence, allows individuals to bring a support person with them to meetings related to the investigation, and provides the parties with the same procedural rights.