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Title IX Deputy Coordinators:
Employee-related compliance matters:
Don Jones, Director of Human Resources
Columbia International University, 7435 Monticello Road, Columbia, SC 29203
(803) 807-5009,
djones@ciu.eduAthletics-related compliance matters:
Kim Abbott, Athletics Director
Columbia International University, 7435 Monticello Road, Columbia, SC 29203
(803) 807-5004,
kabbott@ciu.eduStudent and general compliance matters:
Rick Swift, Dean of Student Life
Columbia International University, 7435 Monticello Road, Columbia, SC 29203
(803) 807-5234,
rswift@ciu.eduColumbia International University Title IX Policy
Biblical Foundation for the Policy:
The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the
body…Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside
the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not
know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from
God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your
body (1 Cor. 6:13b, 18-20).
Definitions:
Title IX:
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects people from
discrimination based on sex, in educational programs or activities which
receive Federal financial assistance. Further, Title IX forbids sex discrimination
in all university services and programs. More specifically, Title IX covers
sexual harassment and sexual assault as a form of sex discrimination. Sexual
harassment, which includes acts of sexual assault/violence such as rape,
sexual battery or sexual coercion, along with stalking, is a form of gender-
based discrimination prohibited by Title IX.
See additional definitions under the
Campus SaVE Act Policy.
Sexual harassment:
Sexual harassment refers to unwelcome sexual advances,
requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual
nature when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual’s well-
being, unreasonably interferes with an individual’s living, educational or work
performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment.
Sexual assault:
Sexual assault refers to a range of behaviors, including but
not limited to, a completed nonconsensual sex act (e.g., rape), an attempted
nonconsensual sex act, and/or abusive sexual contact (i.e., unwanted
touching). Sexual assault includes any sexual act or behavior that is
perpetrated when someone does not or cannot consent. Lack of consent may
be inferred when a perpetrator uses force, harassment, threat of force, threat
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