64 / 65
2017-2018 CIU Student Handbook
64
Bystander Intervention:
All students, faculty and staff should learn to recognize
troublesome situations and intervene in a simple and safe manner, including:
•
Provide a distraction that interrupts an action
•
Directly engage one or more parties involved
•
Get Campus Security involved
•
Get a friend to assist in helping
•
Ask the person in a potentially dangerous situation if he/she is OK and/or
wants to leave
•
Make sure a person gets home safely
All students, faculty and staff should learn to be proactive bystanders:
•
Speak up when you overhear bragging, jokes, or stories glorifying sexual
violence
•
Treat people with respect (the second great commandment)
•
Watch out for your friends at parties – don’t go to those kind of parties!
•
Educate yourselves and your friends
•
Talk to, and challenge friends about confronting sexual and relational
violence
•
Be a knowledgeable resource for survivors
CIU Response:
At the report of any incident falling into the category of sexual
assault, dating violence, domestic violence, or stalking, CIU will seek to:
•
stop the activity and provide any care and attention necessary for the
accuser and the accused,
•
prevent any ongoing behaviors with a balance between confidentiality and
CIU’s obligation to provide a safe and nondiscriminatory environment, and
coordinate with local law enforcement (when applicable), and
•
remedy the situation by determining the proper investigative and
disciplinary process, and a long-term, campus-related response.
Disciplinary Process and Appeals:
The investigative, disciplinary, and appeal
process will follow as described in the Title IX Policy and in the CIU Student
Handbook.