URPD mistakingly sends out two timely warning emails
University of Richmond’s Police Department mistakenly sent two timely warning emails Monday morning because the full message did not go out in the first email, Captain John Jacobs said.
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University of Richmond’s Police Department mistakenly sent two timely warning emails Monday morning because the full message did not go out in the first email, Captain John Jacobs said.
After serving as dean of Westhampton College for 12 years, Juliette Landphair moved in August to the University of Mary Washington to become its vice president for student affairs. A starter job at Richmond became a career and a passion after Landphair fell in love with the Richmond community.
Five Burning Questions is an Q&A series where The Collegian asks prominent professionals five questions that affect the University of Richmond.
Five Burning Questions is an Q&A series where The Collegian asks prominent professionals five questions that effect the University of Richmond.
The Collegian released the complete results of its Campus Attitudes on Sexual Assault survey Wednesday, and the full report can be read here.
3:51 p.m. Zero students attend open forums
Months after University of Richmond asked students to answer its UR Campus Climate survey on Sexual Violence and Bystander Intervention, Richmond still cannot report its findings, as the response rate is too small, Dean Juliette Landphair said at the town hall forum on sexual misconduct policies Tuesday.
With representatives from the Department of Education scheduled to hold student-only focus groups on campus Tuesday, March 31, as part of its on-going investigation into University of Richmond’s sexual assault policy, Westhampton College deans and other administrators heavily encouraged Richmond students to attend the sessions at the town hall forum on sexual misconduct policies Wednesday night.
For the second time this semester, Richmond College and Westhampton College hosted a Town Hall Forum about University of Richmond’s sexual misconduct policy, and once again student government members represented an overwhelming majority of attendees.
The event concludes. Overall it was productive and good questions were asked. Collegian reporters are in the process of collecting more information from administrators, and more specific storylines regarding the forum will be available as soon as they are available. Thank you for following along.
With new changes to the sexual misconduct policy that was updated at the start of the academic school year, University of Richmond will host a town forum event Wednesday with the hopes of educating the campus community on these changes, Beth Curry said, who is the coordinator for sexual misconduct education and advocacy on campus.
The Collegian received 1,004 University of Richmond undergraduate student responses – 34 percent of the student body – to its Spring 2015 Campus Attitudes on Sexual Assault survey. 621 of those started surveys were completed, and the response rates to individual questions varied significantly. The following represents the most pertinent results corresponding to questions asked in the survey. For press inquiries, please email collegianpress@gmail.com.
The Title IX office has received 62 reports of Title IX offenses, ranging from non-consensual sexual intercourse to relationship violence, since fall 2014, including 14 reports since Jan. 22, 2015, Kerry Fankhauser, deputy Title IX coordinator and associate dean of Westhampton College, wrote in an email.
The University of Richmond sexual misconduct policy has expanded from three pages to 31 pages, and now includes details on the definition of consent, clauses on domestic violence and overhaul to the policies on stalking, among other changes.
Issues regarding campus sexual assault have routinely garnered national attention throughout this year, as everything from White House plans to investigate Title IX violations, to mattress-carrying advocacy efforts by undergraduate sexual assault survivors, to last week’s harrowing story of a gang-rape at UVA, have thrown the national spotlight onto how colleges confront this widespread scourge.
Peter LeViness, director of Counseling and Psychological Services, wrote in an email on Sunday that 718 students had responded to the UR Campus Climate survey on Sexual Violence and Bystander Intervention, a study that will give University of Richmond the most detailed look at the sexual assault environment on campus ever.
Last Friday, President Obama and Vice President Biden launched a national campaign to stop and prevent sexual assault on college campuses. Their “It’s On Us” campaign was launched Sept. 19 with an event at the White House to kick off its efforts of “preventing sexual assault at colleges and universities, changing the culture on campuses and better engaging men in this new effort.”
Richmond became one of the 76 universities under federal investigation June 12 for a Title IX policy complaint, which has prompted university coordinators and administrative officials to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the university’s Title IX procedures.