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.
Read More:
New Protections Under The Law
- Offenses against national Origin*
- Offenses against gender identity *
- Offenses of domestic violence: offenses against a current or former spouse or cohabitant
- Offenses of dating violence: violence against a person in a romantic or intimate relationship.
- Offenses against stalking: conduct that would cause a reasonable person to fear for their or other’s safety or behavior that causes substantial emotional distress
*These categories cover the commission of a hate crime, based on whether the individual was victimized because of their status or because of their perceived status.
-
- An estimated 20 to 25% of females will be the victims of rape or attempted rape on college campuses each year
- 90% of these victims know their attacker
- Off-campus rape is more prevalent – occurring about 66% of the time
- Freshman and sophomore women are at higher risk: 84% in one study reported sexually coercive experiences during their first 8 semesters
-
An active bystander is someone who intervenes to interrupt behaviors in social situations that could lead to sexual violence. Effective intervention is the community responsibility of every person. Individuals are encouraged to speak out against attitudes that promote sexual violence and become more supportive of survivors.
There are five stages to effective bystander intervention:
- notice the problem,
- understand that the problem demands action,
- feel responsibility to act,
- choose what form of assistance to provide, and
- respond.
Steps for Reporting Offenses
- Report sexual offense crimes directly to the Dean of Student Affairs- Mr. Jason Jessie by dialing 334-881-5364 or 5364 from any extension on any campus.
- All incidents are investigated and a report will be filed.
- In the event of a sexual crime, assistance is available to students in the student services office for counseling services.
The Dean of Students will be notified of any above listed crimes in reference to LBWCC students. The Senior Personnel Officer will be notified of any of the above listed crimes in reference to LBWCC employees.
-
- Victims shall be notified of their options to notify law enforcement
- Same opportunity as accused to have others present at disciplinary hearing
- Victims shall be notified of options for changing academic class or campus work arrangements
- Reasonable changes to academic, living, or work situations
- Victims shall be notified of available counseling services
- Both parties shall be unconditionally notified of outcome of hearing, sanctions, and terms of sanctions in place
- Speak (or choose not to speak) to anyone regarding the outcome
- Victims’ right to confidentiality
- Name and identity information kept confidential (FERPA)
-
- Alabama coalition against rape: 1-888-725-RAPE
- Alabama coalition against domestic violence: 1-334-832-4842
- Alabama statewide domestic violence hotline: 1-800-650-6522
- National domestic violence hotline: 1-800-799-7233
- National resource center on domestic violence: 1-800-537-2238
- Where to Get Help: http://www.aardvarc.org/sexual-assault-rape
-
Campus Safety Authority (CSA)
Who is a campus safety authority CSA?
A campus safety authority is defined as any administrator of staff person who have responsibility for a student or campus activity outside of the classroom including police officers, athletic coaches, the student activity facilitator, Dean of Students, or the Student Advocate.
Who is not a campus safety authority CSA?
A faculty member who does not have responsibility for a student or campus activity beyond the classroom.
Consent: Section 13A-6-70
It is a violation of State law to commit a sexual act without the consent of the individual. The law states that the lack of consent results from: 1) Forcible compulsion, and the 2) Incapacity to consent. A person is deemed incapable of consent if they are: forced, threatened, unconscious, drugged, less than 16, mentally or developmentally disabled, mentally incapacitated, physically helpless, chronically mentally ill, or believe they are undergoing a medical procedure.;
- Know your own limits and communicate what you don’t want
- Say “no” out loud if your don’t feel comfortable
- Don’t be afraid to tell them to “stop”
- “no” means no!
If they don’t stop when you tell them to, they have committed a sexual assault
Sexual assault: Section 13A-6-65
Sexual assault can be broadly defined as sexual contact that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient. For example, touching, fondling, kissing, and other unwanted sexual contact can be classified as sexual battery.
- Sexual intercourse against a person’s will is rape.
- Sexual intercourse with a minor more than three years younger is unlawful sexual intercourse.
- Perpetrators of sexual assault can be strangers, friends, and acquaintances, family members, male or female.
- Perpetrators may commit sexual assault by means of overt physical violence, threats, coercion, manipulation, pressure, or tricks. Often, sexual assault involves psychological coercion and taking advantage of an individual who is incapacitated or under duress, and therefore is incapable of making a decision on his or her own.
Rape: Section 13A-6-61
A person commits the crime of rape if he or she engages in sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex by forcible compulsion; 2) He or she, being 16 years old or older, engages in sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex who is less than 12 years old. (Rape in the first degree is a Class A felony).
Domestic violence: Section 13A-6-130
A person commits domestic violence when the commit an offense against a current or former spouse or cohabitant, parent, child, any person who has or had a dating or engagement relationship with the defendant. Domestic violence in the first degree is a Class A felony
Dating Violence:
- Forcible sex offenses: Any sexual act directed against another person, forcibly
- Non-forcible sex offenses: Any sexual act that includes incest and statutory rape
Stalking: Section 13A-6-90
Stalking is defined as a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear. A person who intentionally and repeatedly follows or harasses another person and who makes a threat, either expressed or implied is guilty of the crime of stalking.
Bystander (also see Bystander Intervention)
An active bystander is someone who intervenes to interrupt behaviors in social situations that could lead to sexual violence.
Education for the Violence Against Women Act