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Campus SaVE Act at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College

Your continuing education and a safe, harassment-free work environment are two priorities for Lurleen B. Wallace Community College.  To help us meet our goals, we are providing an online mandatory training course.  

This training is a useful and informative learning experience and one which supports the College’s commitment to create an environment free of discrimination and sexual misconduct. All LBWCC employees are expected to complete the training and consider it an additional resource to further enhance awareness opportunities for our college community.  After reading the information below and the facts included in the additional links below, the training can be accessed by clicking the link for Education for the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).  

You will need to complete the training on a laptop or desktop computer.  A certificate of completion is at the end of the training and can be printed after the training is completed.  Print, sign, and deliver the Certificate of Completion to the Human Resources Office to place in your personnel file.  

Thank you in advance for completing this mandatory training to help us meet our goals in maintaining a safe, harassment-free work environment.  If you have questions or need assistance, please contact the Human Resources Office.   

What is the Campus SaVE Act?

In March of 2013, the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (SaVE) Act was passed by congress as part of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization.  The SaVE Act requires colleges and universities, both public and private, participating in federal student aid programs to increase transparency about incidents of sexual violence on campus, guarantee victims enhanced rights, provide standards for disciplinary proceedings, and provide campus community wide prevention educational programs. Colleges must provide “primary prevention and awareness programs” for new students and employees, as well as ongoing prevention and awareness campaigns. The clear transparency, victim rights, and educational responsibilities defined in the recent Campus SaVE Act are essential changes that will decline sexual violence on campus and require colleges to increase their effort when taking preventive measures.

Policy Statement

Lurleen B. Wallace Community College is committed to providing a learning and working environment that promotes personal integrity, civility, and mutual respect and is free of discrimination on the basis of sex, which includes all forms of sexual misconduct. Lurleen B. Wallace Community College does not condone any form of sexual misconduct whether physical, mental, verbal or emotional in nature. Sexual misconduct includes sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual exploitation, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking directed toward an individual based on their sex. Sexual misconduct by any member of the college community including students, faculty, employees, or staff is unacceptable and shall not be tolerated by any of the institutions that comprise the Alabama Community College System.

It is the policy of Lurleen B. Wallace Community College that no student or employee may threaten the health and safety of a member of the College community, of any person on College property, or at a College sponsored or supervised activity, through gender-based discrimination, sexual misconduct and violence.  A non-discriminatory environment is essential to the mission of the Alabama Community College System.  In order to create a safe and healthy environment, it is the responsibility of faculty, staff and students to report any sexual misconduct to College officials. If there is reason to believe the College’s policies prohibiting sexual misconduct have been violated, the College may pursue the matter as misconduct warranting disciplinary action by the College, even if law enforcement authorities choose not to prosecute.

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