Title IX Policy and Resources
This site is a resource for students, employees, and third parties to learn more about MCCCD's Title IX Sexual Harassment/Discrimination Policy and protections. If you have experienced or witnessed an act of sexual harassment, discrimination, or dating/partner violence, you are encouraged to report the incident to your college's designated Title IX Regional Director. Your Regional Director will serve as your Title IX Coordinator. You can locate the contact information of your college's designated Title IX Regional Director here.
If you would like to file a formal Title IX report, please click the button below.
Immediate Assistance
If you are in an emergency situation, make sure you are in a safe place and call 911. For non-emergencies, contact your college's Title IX/504 Coordinator, Department of Public Safety, or local law enforcement.
Sexual Harassment and Discrimination (2020)
Applicability
For all Title IX allegations where the alleged discriminatory incident occurred prior to August 1, 2024.
Policy Statement
The policy of the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) is to provide an educational, employment, and business environment free of sexual violence, unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct or communications constituting Sexual Harassment as prohibited by state and federal law. Discrimination under this Policy is an unequal treatment of a student based on the student’s actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, or pregnancy. This Policy prohibits Sexual Harassment and Discrimination in any college education program or activity, which means all academic, educational, extracurricular, athletic and other programs.
Sexual Harassment
The 2020 Title IX Regulations define sexual harassment broadly to include any of three types of misconduct that—on the basis of sex—jeopardize the equal access to education and the educational programs/activities that Title IX is designed to protect. These three types of misconduct are:
- Any instance of quid pro quo harassment by a school's employee;
- any unwelcome conduct that a reasonable person would find so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it denies a person equal educational access;
- any instance of sexual assault (as defined in the Clery Act), dating violence, domestic violence, or stalking as defined in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). For definitions of sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and stalking, please see AR 5.1.16 Title IX Sexual Harassment Policy.
Sex Discrimination, Sex-Based Harassment, and Retaliation (2024)
Applicability
For all Title IX allegations where the alleged discriminatory incident occurred on or after August 1, 2024, AR 5.1.17 Prohibited Sex Discrimination, Sex-Based Harassment and Retaliation and related procedure will apply to all eligible MCCCD Colleges and campuses.
Policy Statement
Title IX Sexual Harassment Policy
MCCCD adheres to all federal, state, and local civil rights laws prohibiting sex discrimination and sex-based harassment in employment and education. MCCCD does not discriminate in its admissions practices, employment practices, or educational programs or activities on the basis of sex, except as may be permitted by law. As a recipient of federal financial assistance for education activities, MCCCD is required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) to ensure that all of its education programs and activities do not discriminate on the basis of sex. Sex includes sex assigned at birth, sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy or related conditions. Sex discrimination is prohibited under Title IX and by MCCCCD policy, and it includes sex-based harassment, sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, stalking, quid pro quo harassment, hostile environment harassment, disparate treatment, and disparate impact. MCCCD also prohibits retaliation against any person opposing sex discrimination or sex-based harassment or participating in any internal or external investigation or complaint process related to allegations of sex discrimination. Any MCCCD employee or student who acts to deny, deprive, or limit the educational, employment, or social access, opportunities, and/or benefits of any member of the MCCCCD community on the basis of sex is in violation of this policy.
Sex-based harassment is a form of sex discrimination and means sexual harassment and other harassment on the basis of sex (conduct that is sexual in nature, or that is directed to the complainant because of his/her/their actual or perceived sex or gender identity), including sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity; sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking.
The types of misconduct are:
- Quid pro quo: An employee, agent, or other person authorized by MCCCD, conditions the provision of an aid, benefit, or service of the under MCCCD’s educational program or activity, explicitly or impliedly conditioning the provision of such aid, benefit, or service, on an individual’s participation in unwelcome sexual conduct.
- Hostile environment harassment: Unwelcome sex-based conduct, that based on the totality of the circumstances, is subjectively and objectively offensive, and is so severe or pervasive, that it effectively limits or denies a person’s ability to participate in or benefit from equal access to the MCCCD’s education program or activity (i.e., creates a hostile environment).
- Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct: Any instance of sexual assault (as defined in the Clery Act), dating violence, domestic violence, or stalking as defined in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). For definitions of sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and stalking, please see AR 5.1.17 Title IX Sexual Harassment Policy.