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Campus & Community Collaborations

Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP) Team
  • Co-chaired by the Office of Title IX and Center for Health Education & Wellness staff
  • Composed of more than 30 members across the campus and the greater Knoxville community
  • Includes student, faculty, and staff representation from UT Athletics, University Housing, Student Conduct and Community Standards, the Office of the Dean of Students, the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life, and numerous other campus departments, as well as the Sexual Assault Center of East Tennessee and the Knoxville Family Justice Center
  • Provides leadership to the university’s sexual misconduct prevention through primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention efforts
  • Ensures that campus-wide prevention (student, faculty, and staff) is aligned with evidence-based research and the patterns and trends of the UT community
  • Provides oversight and support in the development of annual prevention plans for student life, intercollegiate athletics, and faculty and staff

 

Title IX Response Team
  • Addresses individual reports of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, and stalking
  • Ensures consistency across case responses
  • Provides oversight of supportive measures, investigations, and individual case resolutions
  • University of Tennessee Action Collaborative Members (currently more than 15) include faculty representatives appointed by the dean of each college to serve a three-year term; staff from the Office of Title IX, Human Resources, the Office of Investigation and Resolution, the Office of the Provost, and the Office of Ombuds Services; and representatives of Faculty Senate, Graduate Student Senate, and Undergraduate Senate
  • Guides the university in addressing the underlying issues that allow sexual harassment to exist and persist in the academic environment
  • Works to implement the following recommendations through prevention, response, remediation, and evaluation:
    • Move beyond legal compliance
    • Improve transparency and accountability
    • Diffuse the hierarchical and dependent relationship between students and faculty
    • Provide support for those who have experienced sexual harassment