Tuesday, May 5, 2026
2:00 – 3:15 pm ET

Train Your Hearing Board to Provide Fair, Timely & Balanced Hearings

The changing legal landscape makes it difficult to help hearing officers understand evolving legal standards, evidentiary rules and procedural process requirements which can be a lot to ask for if serving as a hearing officer is an “add on position” rather than an individual’s full-time role. It’s your responsibility as an administrator to ensure that your Title IX hearing boards are doing exactly what needs to be done to avoid legal issues, while supporting individuals involved in the Title IX process. As your campus works toward ensuring compliance, training your hearing board on Title IX is a critical part of this process.

Join us on May 5, 2026 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 be. You’ll hear about the stages of the investigative process from pre-hearing through appeal, learn about examples of challenges and roadblocks hearing boards have faced, and explore tools you can provide hearing officers to assist them in their review of investigative reports and evidence.

During this webinar, you will learn best practices for training on all aspects of the hearing process including: 

• Sorting through relevant vs. non-relevant evidence
• Ensuring respondents are charged appropriately for their behavior
• Understanding when a hearing needs to be stopped and reconvened as a result of uncovering new evidence
• Handling criminal proceedings in addition to conduct hearings
• Recognizing and addressing issues of bias to ensure board members can fairly hear cases
• How to ask questions that are consistent with institutional policy
• Handling dual charges when the parties are both the complainant and the respondent
• Navigating the live hearing format 
• Handling appeals
  

Topics Covered

As a result of 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.
• Provide fair, timely and balanced Title IX hearings – train hearing officers to navigate a considerable amount of information and data, apply policies consistently to arrive at fair and equitable decisions.
• Help hearing board members recognize and address issues of bias – ensure your hearing board members are able to handle all types of cases regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation and more.
• Recruit hearing board members – strategies for identifying and selecting qualified individuals to serve.
• Conduct a comprehensive training process that encompasses all aspects of sexual misconduct hearings to ensure your board members are as prepared as possible. 
  

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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Invite your entire team for one low price!

• Live 75-minute online session with carefully selected expert(s)
  
• Unlimited access for your entire team to view webinar recording for two years (available after live event)
• Materials for your team (handouts, discussion questions, etc.)
• Certificate of completion for each participant
  

Instructions for live webinar access for your group are provided to you immediately upon checkout. Instructions for accessing the on-demand recording will be emailed to you approximately 24 hours following the live webinar. Feel free to contact us at info@paper-clip.com or 1-866-295-0505 with any questions. For information about licensing this webinar for unlimited distribution on your institution’s internal network/server, email info@paper-clip.com.

PaperClip Communications welcomes persons with disabilities to join our webinars. If you anticipate needing an accommodation or have questions about the online access provided, please email info@paper-clip.com at least two weeks in advance of your participation.