The University of Cincinnati is going back to the drawing board in its search for a new Title IX coordinator.
UC has gone almost two years without a full-time Title IX coordinator after the departure of Jyl Schafer in 2016.
According to the listed job description, the Title IX coordinator handles day-to-day application and review of university policies and practices as it relates to Title IX, Title VII and other Equal Opportunity laws at both the state and federal levels. They also coordinate response, prevention and education initiatives pursuant to Title IX and related statutes. The position is also responsible for handling regulations and disseminating information of implementation requirements.
“My hope was to have a person hired at the beginning of this semester; however, it didn’t work out,” Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Bleuzette Marshall said. “I messaged members of our community [those who participated in on-campus interviews] that I made an offer to a finalist, but it was declined because she wanted to pursue other interests by joining a law firm. Our search committee is back to the drawing board and continuing the search.”
The university is working hard to find a coordinator, with the search being led by Marshall.
“Bleuzette is really beating the bushes to find a candidate,” said Vice President for Student Affairs Debra Merchant. “As soon as she has someone qualified to fill the position, she will let us know. I know it is very high on her priority list.”
The university is looking for a candidate who has a bachelor’s degree with a minimum of ten years of progressive experience in student personnel, student affairs, higher education administration, legal studies, counseling, human resources, equal opportunity, social work or a related field, according to a job description provided by Marshall.
Other qualifications include: experience or training in responding to complaints of gender-based harassment and gender-based violence as well as complaint investigation, resolution and grievances, experience collaborating with departments to develop campus/company-wide strategies for the implementation of prevention programs, experience dealing with the specialized needs and concerns of marginalized communities and their experiences with gender-based violence, with trauma informed training preferred.
The university is still facing two separate U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights lawsuits to determine whether it is a sexually hostile environment.
This is an example that the university cares only about its image, said McKenna Corey, a Students for Survivors (SFS) member, in a forum Thursday.
Corey said the university has shown through failure to hire a coordinator or rewrite a sexual misconduct policy that it would rather sweep negative things under the rug than deal with them.
“The university cares a lot about their image, and a lot about profit. They profit off of us as bodies here. And it’s been evident by the fact that they’re encouraging rape culture — and encouraging white supremacy — that they don’t care about the way that we feel in response to these things.”
Grace Cunningham, co-founder of SFS, said she was “not surprised, but disappointed.”
“UC’s complacency in rape culture has been clear,” Cunningham said. “This is just another example. UC has and continues to fail survivors on this campus. Survivors deserve to have support at the university they pay to attend.”
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