Description

This day-long event requires registrants to prepare for their role in advance, learn their part, and prepare to testify, question, rule, or deliberate. The roles include a hearing facilitator, a voting chair, two decision-maker panelists, two parties, two advisors, and three witnesses. Then, facilitators take the participants through the hearing script per the regulations, and then facilitate deliberations.

In this course, participants will have the opportunity to:

• Understand the live hearing process

• Comprehend due process as prescribed in the 2020 Title IX Regulations

• Understand the role of all hearing participants

• Experience a live hearing and observe others’ experience of the hearing

• Receive feedback from the facilitators on their role in the process and the overall proficiency of the hearing

• Learn how to best prepare for a hearing

• Understand appropriate techniques for questioning and assessing credibility

• Learn the pace of a hearing and flow of a hearing script

• Understand evidence rulings, the effect of not answering, and inferences

• Experience or observe the questioning and cross-examination process

• Experience deliberation and application of policy and the standard of proof

• Learn about the use, management, and application of virtual hearing technology

​Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for Virginia Title IX coordinators and investigators, hearing/process advisors, hearing facilitators, hearing chairs, decision-makers, hearing panelists, appeals officers, and others who have the responsibility for assisting with or overseeing Title IX compliance on their Virginia college campuses.  

Partial In-service Credit

Partial In-service Credit for law enforcement and campus security officers is not available.

Training Times

Check in will begin at 8:30 am.

Training will begin at 9:00 am and conclude at 4:30 pm.