Webinar Details
In January, the Biden Administration announced an intent to promulgate new Title IX regulations to better ensure equal access to education for all students, with a proposed focus on protections regarding sexual harassment, gender-based violence, and gender identity. The Department of Education’s intent to release proposed amendments to Title IX’s implementing regulations by April 2022 offers Title IX coordinators and other campus leaders a moment to consider the new rule making process and how they will respond. Join nationally recognized legal scholar and Title IX expert, Nancy Chi Cantalupo, and Vector Solution’s Vice President of Impact, Holly Rider-Milkovich, for a discussion that invites participants to examine ways to establish a consistent approach to upholding this important civil right protection on campus and building institutional confidence and trust, regardless of regulatory process outcomes.
- Reflect on the current Title IX landscape.
- Discuss expectations for the new regulations and what preparations institutions can take now.
- Explore what institutions can do right now to yield equitable results from Title IX processes and reduce institutional uncertainty, confusion or mistrust.
- Identify frequent missteps and how institutions can rectify them.
Additional Resources
Presenters
Holly Rider-Milkovich
VP, Impact
Holly leads the Impact & Education team at Vector Solutions, helping ensure that the thought leadership we deliver to our customers is based on research and established best practice and she's also our subject matter expert on preventing sexual and gender-based harassment and violence. Holly joined Vector Solutions most recently from the University of Michigan where she oversaw that institution's prevention and advocacy efforts for nearly a decade. Holly also brings national policy experience to her role at Vector Solutions as one of the rulemakers for the 2014 Clery Act regulations and an advisor to the Obama Administration White House Taskforce on preventing campus sexual assault. She brings over 25 years of experience in preventing and responding to sexual- and gender-based violence in higher education, workplaces, and communities.
Nancy Chi Cantalupo
Assistant Professor of Law
Nancy Chi Cantalupo joined the Wayne State University Law School faculty in 2021. She has also taught as full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, or a fellow at Barry University School of Law, California Western School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, George Washington University Law School, and Temple University Beasley School of Law. Prior to becoming a professor, she practiced with the firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, and served as assistant dean for clinical programs at Georgetown Law, as an associate vice president for equity, inclusion & violence prevention at a higher education professional association, and as a research fellow with the Victim Rights Law Center.
Cantalupo is a nationally-recognized scholar and expert on Title IX, sexual harassment, and gender-based violence in education. Her scholarship draws from her over 25 years of anti-campus sexual harassment and gender-based violence work as a researcher, campus administrator, victims’ advocate, attorney, and policymaker and focuses on the use of law to combat discriminatory violence. Cantalupo’s articles have appeared in the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, Wake Forest Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, California Law Review Online, Yale Law Journal Forum, Utah Law Review, Maryland Law Review, the peer-reviewed social science journal Trauma, Violence & Abuse, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, and several issues of the Journal of College & University Law. She also has been invited to write several book chapters, as well as op-eds for the Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, and Time magazine.
In her pro bono work, Cantalupo has consulted with President Obama’s White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, participated on a U.S. Senate roundtable, served as a Negotiator on the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee that amended regulations for the Clery Act, and testified before the Maryland and Virginia state legislatures. She has also chaired the board of D.C. Law Students in Court and served on the Advisory Boards for SurvJustice and The Clery Center for Security on Campus, as well as on the Boards of Directors for the Asian/Pacific-Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project and the Conference for Asian Pacific American Law Faculty. In 2016, she co-authored “Title IX & the Preponderance of the Evidence: A White Paper,” signed by over 115 law professors from across the country and from 2017-19 was asked by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence to draft and edit (based on feedback from peer reviewers) its Recommendations for Improving Campus Student Conduct Processes for Gender-Based Violence (pdf).