55. Establish strong institutional policies to ensure compliance with Title VI, Title IX, and Section 504.

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Here’s what state government can do:

  • Higher education coordinating agencies should collect and disseminate best practices for preventing and responding to discrimination, including harassment.

Here’s what institutional leaders can do:

  • Higher education institutions should broadly disseminate information to the entire campus community about prohibited discrimination, including harassment, and processes for filing complaints.
  • Higher education institutions should identify and make widely known civil rights coordinators who will support compliance with nondiscrimination law and receive and address complaints of discrimination, including harassment.
  • Higher education institutions should provide all students who report discrimination, including harassment, with supportive measures that restore and preserve their equal access to education.
  • Higher education institutions should prioritize institutional efforts to create diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible campus environments in order to prevent discrimination, including harassment.

Higher education institutions receiving federal funding must affirm a greater sense of belonging and protect the civil rights of all students by establishing strong university policies that are in compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. All higher education institutions, including private colleges and universities, must create safe and healthy campuses to protect the civil rights of their students. All members of the campus community must understand their obligations and how to take action when they have knowledge of discrimination, including harassment, on campus.