Annual Reports
In response to the CSU systemwide audit conducted by Cozen O’Connor, the CSU’s newly revised Title IX/DHR Annual Report Survey establishes more robust and standardized data collection methods across all 23 universities.
The survey results have been made publicly available through an online dashboard to provide transparency and accountability for the CSU’s Title IX/DHR casework. This data will inform Civil Rights programming across the system, identify and track emerging patterns/trends, and highlight opportunities for additional prevention education and training.
Things to keep in mind when reviewing the CSU online dashboard:
- Concerns v. Reports v. Complaints v. Investigations: Concerns are conduct which does not fall under the Nondiscrimination Policy and these are now being captured. All incident reports will result in action, but not all reports will graduate to the level of a complaint or an investigation.
- Comparing Campuses: Universities vary dramatically in terms of size, student body, location (urban vs. rural), residential vs. commuter, Greek life, athletics, or situations they have faced and thus the data cannot be compared campus by campus.
Message Regarding the Title IX Annual Report for 2022-2023
In response to feedback from Cozen O’Connor following their assessment of the CSU’s Title IX and Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation (DHR) programs and from the California State Auditor following their audit of the CSU’s system to assess the CSU’s handling of sexual harassment complaints against employees at the Office of the Chancellor (Chancellor’s Office), California State University, Fresno, San José State University, and Sonoma State University the CSU Chancellor’s Office is refining the categories of Title IX data it gathers to ensure the accuracy of campus Title IX Annual Reports and to facilitate more precise analysis and identification of patterns and trends. While the CO works to update the data queries, CSU campuses will defer issuing Title IX Annual Reports until the Chancellor’s Office finalizes new guidance for data collection and reporting.
During this time, all CSU campuses will continue to issue the Annual Security Report, accessible for CSU Bakersfield at csub.edu/civil-rights-compliance/clery, in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the Clery Act). This report includes statistics for the previous three years concerning Clery Act defined crimes that were reported to have occurred on campus, in certain off-campus buildings or property owned or controlled by the CSU, and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus. This report includes, but is not limited to, reported incidents of sexual assault (including rape, fondling, incest, and statutory rape), domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking. Please note that the data in the Annual Security Report differs from the data that has historically been reported in a campus’s Title IX Annual Report due to the specific definitional and geographical parameters required for Clery statistics.
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