http://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Baylor-hires-new-Title-IX-coordinator-480384253.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KWTX_News_10Quote:
WACO, Texas (KWTX) Baylor University has hired a new Title IX coordinator, university President Dr. Linda Livingstone said in her weekly email message to students and staff Friday.
Dr. Laura Johnson will begin the job on June 11.
She's currently the vice president for student life/dean of students and Title IX coordinator at Georgetown College, a small private Christian school in Georgetown, Ky.
The college, which was chartered in 1829, has an undergraduate enrollment of just more than 1,000 students.
"She has a wide range of experience in student services overall and in the prevention, investigation and management of sexual violence on college campuses," Livingstone said in the email.
Johnson will succeed former Title IX Coordinator Kirstan Tucker who resigned from her position effective Jan. 2.
Sources with direct knowledge of the situation told KWTX earlier that Tucker has been out of the office for about a month at the time her resignation was announced on Dec. 6, 2017.
Tucker was serving as senior deputy Title IX coordinator when was promoted to the position in October 2016, less than 48 hours after Patty Crawford, the former head of the school's Title IX office resigned following a daylong mediation of a retaliation complaint she filed with the university's Human Resources Department.
As senior deputy coordinator, Tucker helped direct the functions of the office and trained faculty, staff and students on the school's Title IX policy.
Before joining the Baylor staff, Tucker served as the lead Title IX investigator at East Carolina University.
She also worked as senior equity compliance officer in the University of Tennessee System.
Maureen Holland, a consulting member of the international legal firm Cozen O'Connor, was named to serve as the university's interim Title IX coordinator until a replacement was found,
Holland was formerly a member of the Pepper Hamilton law firm, whose review of the school's handling of sexual assaults involving athletes led to the reassignment of Chancellor and President Ken Starr, the termination of football coach Art Briles and the suspension of athletic director Ian McCaw.
Title IX, which is part of a more than 40-year-old law aimed at ensuring equal rights for those participating in educational programs that receive federal financial assistance, applies to all facets of a school's environment.
It has been interpreted to mean that sexual harassment of students including sexual violence interferes with the right to receive an education free from discrimination, and requires schools to take immediate action to end harassment and sexual violence.
I didn't realize one of the Pepper Hamilton chicks had been our interim this semester.
And FWIW, my great-great-great-grandfather (who graduated from Georgetown College in about 1855) moved his family by covered wagon from near Georgetown, KY to McLennan County in 1870. No reports yet on how this one is going to move here.
