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Culture of Respect Webinar: Evaluating Title IX Cases Without Gender Bias

Culture of Respect Webinar: Evaluating Title IX Cases Without Gender Bias

Includes a Live Web Event on 04/11/2025 at 3:00 PM (EDT)

Note: This session will only be available live and will not be recorded.

Researchers find that essentially all reports of sexual assault are credible, but the vast majority of Title IX complaints end in inaction. In this workshop, Dr. Nicole Bedera will reflect on her yearlong ethnographic study of one university’s Title IX process and explore the reasons that Title IX administrators hesitated to intervene in clear-cut cases. Specifically, this workshop will focus on the role of gender bias throughout the Title IX process, including staff interactions with complainants and respondents, expectations guiding informal resolution, assessment of evidence in investigations, sanctioning decisions, and provision of supportive measures.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Define key concepts relating to gender bias in organizational settings, including “himpathy,” “credibility deficit,” “credibility surplus,” and “orchestrated complexity”
  2. Develop a framework for distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant evidence
  3. Assess gender bias in hypothetical Title IX scenarios

Nicole Bedera

Researcher and Consultant

Nicole Bedera, Ph.D. is a sociologist and author of the book On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence. Her research focuses on how our social structures contribute to survivors’ trauma and make sexual violence more likely to occur in the future. Her scholarship has been featured in many popular outlets, including The New York Times, NPR, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Teen Vogue. Nicole puts her work into practice as an Affiliated Educator at the Center for Institutional Courage and as a co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting.

Continuing Education Credits

Participants who complete the course will be eligible for Continuing Education (CE) credits in the Core Student Affairs Educator Certification (CSAEd™) continuing education. This session will only be available live and will not be recorded, so credit will not be available for on-demand viewing of this event.

NASPA has been approved by the Higher Education Consortium for Student Affairs Certification to provide CE credit for Certified Student Affairs Educators (CSAEd). NASPA is solely responsible for all aspects of this program.

Guidelines for earning CE credit

1 CE is awarded for attending this live session for ONE category of Continuing Education. You cannot receive more than 1 credit hour total. 

No partial credit will be rewarded. 

To receive CSAEd credit, attendees must complete the Feedback Survey in the online event offering the credit. Once the survey is completed, your Certificate will be available in the event modules. The Credit Certificate, which will show the event, date and credit earnings, is available for download and/or print from the event or your Dashboard on the Online Learning Community.

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