Responsible Employees

A “Responsible Employee” is:

• a person designated as a supervisor of any University employee;
• any person who is designated as a Campus Security Authority;
• any ECU employee responsible for coordinating or supervising clinical education experiences, practicum and/or internships.

Responsible Employees must report incidents of sexual assault, sexual harassment, dating and domestic violence, and stalking to the Title IX coordinator and must not attempt mediation with the Complainant and Respondent. Faculty and other ECU employees who are responsible for coordinating or supervising clinical education experiences, practicum and/or internships are considered to be Responsible Employees with respect to the students participating in those experiences and are required to report any allegations of sexual assault, sexual harassment, dating and domestic violence, and stalking that they receive relating to those students to the Title IX coordinator. The University reserves the right to take disciplinary action against a Responsible Employee, up to and including discharge from employment, who fails to report sexual assault, sexual harassment, dating and domestic violence, and stalking to the Title IX Coordinator.

A Responsible Employee is required to report to the University’s Title IX Coordinator all relevant details (obtained directly or indirectly) about an incident of sexual assault, sexual harassment, dating and domestic violence, and stalking that involves a campus community member as a Complainant, Respondent, and/or witness, including dates, times, locations, and names of parties and witnesses. Responsible Employees include Resident Assistants, and Graduate Teaching Assistants, when disclosures are made to any of them in their capacities as employees. Responsible Employees are not required to report information disclosed (1) at public awareness events (e.g., “Take Back the Night,” candlelight vigils, protests, “survivor speak-outs”, or other public forums in which students may disclose incidents of sexual assault, sexual harassment, dating and domestic violence, and stalking, “Public Awareness Events”), or (2) during a student’s participation as a subject in an Institutional Review Board-approved human subjects research protocol (“IRB Research”). The University may provide information about Students’ Title IX rights and about available University and community resources and support at Public Awareness Events, however, and Institutional Review Boards may, in appropriate cases, require researchers to provide such information to all Student subjects of IRB Research.

Supervisors, management and human resources professionals are required to report to the University’s Title IX Coordinator all relevant details about an incident of sexual assault, sexual harassment, dating and domestic violence, and stalking where either the Complainant or the Respondent is an Employee. Reporting is required when such supervisors, management and human resource professionals know (by reason of a direct or indirect disclosure) or should have known of such sexual assault, sexual harassment, dating and domestic violence, and stalking. For academic faculty, supervisors include department chairs, deans, and other unit administrators.