Tuesday, April 29, 2025
11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET

Train Your Hearing Board and Officers to Ensure Confidence & Compliance

As your campus works toward ensuring compliance, training your hearing board on Title IX is a critical part of this process.  Ensure that your Title IX hearing boards are doing exactly what needs to be done so you can avoid legal issues, while supporting individuals involved in the Title IX process. 
 
Join us on April 29, 2025 and hear from our expert presenter on the hearing board process and how you can train your panelists to be the most effective hearing officers they can. You will explore relevant statutes, the updated regulations, the impact of resolution agreements and current case law on this landscape to set a foundation to navigate creating sound processes. You will also establish a knowledge foundation to be imparted to hearing boards. 
 
Learn best practices for training on all aspects of the hearing process which includes how to:

• Conduct and oversee cross-examinations, including what constitutes relevant questioning
• Relevant determinations and documenting those determinations
• Manage biases and approach the hearing with both impartiality and care
• Understand when a hearing needs to be stopped and reconvened as a result of uncovering new evidence
• Manage sensitive cases
• Handle criminal proceedings in addition to conduct hearings
• Draft the outcome notification
• Handle appeals

You will walk away with tools to tailor to your campus to train your hearing boards, so you can avoid missteps in your sexual misconduct processes. 

Topics Covered

After attending this webinar, you will be able to:

• Understand the hearing board’s role in Title IX Compliance and why training panelists through every step of the process is critical in avoiding a lawsuit.
• Understand emerging legal issues and trends in sexual misconduct processes and hearings, including concerns related to due process so you can avoid sinking your entire process before even beginning.
• Comply with each of the federal laws, including the Clery Act and Title IX, as they relate to sexual misconduct processes and hearings – prep your hearing board to set-up hearings, follow a script for hearings, and incorporate cross-examination and Title IX advisors.
• Help hearing board members recognize and address issues of bias.
• Conduct a comprehensive training process that encompasses all aspects of sexual misconduct hearings to ensure your board members are as prepared as possible – train your hearing board on relevancy determinations, documenting those determinations, and documenting outcome determinations, among other important hearing board tasks. 
  

Presenter

Pam Peter currently serves as the Title IX Coordinator for Students and Director of Student Title IX Case Management at Syracuse University.
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