The Title IX Coordinator has the important role of being visible and authoritative in order to train students and college faculty and staff, conduct survey's of the climate, process requests for confidentiality, maintain record keeping, modify and increase safety measures when needed and to continually review the effectiveness on campus. Here again, since we are on online educational source I see the role of Title IX Coordinator as being a difficult one. The colleges of our consortium are probably the better sources of this role.

Reply to Robin Wiebe's post:I agree with you Robin except that I don't think being in an online environment necessarily makes us immune from sexual or gender-based harrassment. In fact, it has been my experience that students wil sometimes say things in an online discussion that they never would have in a face to face discussion.