Office for Civil Rights and Title IX

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The Office for Civil Rights and Title IX receives reports of discrimination, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexual exploitation, dating violence, domestic violence, stalking and retaliation and provides support and resolution options.

The Office for Civil Rights and Title IX is committed to ensuring that all members of the SFSU community can fully participate in university educational and employment opportunities free from discrimination, harassment, sexual misconduct and related retaliation. We promote equal access and opportunity for students and employees by providing support, engaging in prevention and education efforts, and in fostering accountability through neutral resolutions. 

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Nondiscrimination

The California State University does not discriminate on the basis of gender, which includes sex and gender identity or gender expression, or sexual orientation, in its education programs or activities. 

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and certain other federal and state laws, prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender or sexual orientation in employment, as well as in all education programs and activities operated by the University (both on and off campus), including admissions. The protection against discrimination on the basis of gender or sexual orientation includes sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, sexual exploitation, dating and domestic violence and stalking. 

Any person may report sex discrimination, including sexual harassment (whether or not the person reporting is the person alleged to have experienced the conduct that could constitute sex discrimination or sexual harassment), in-person, by mail, by telephone or by electronic mail, using the contact information for their campus Title IX Coordinator, or by any other means that results in the Title IX Coordinator receiving the person’s verbal or written report. Such a report may be made at any time (including during non-business hours) by using the telephone number or electronic mail address, or by mail to the office address, listed for the Title IX Coordinator. 

Please see the systemwide Notice of Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Gender or Sex.

Get Help

We have several resources and contacts available so you can get the help you need. The Title IX coordinator is the employee responsible for administering the Nondiscrimination Policy and ensuring compliance with Title IX, the VAWA/Campus SaVE Act and other state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination, harassment and retaliation (DHR).

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More about OCRTIX

Find our more about our annual reports, trainings and the Cozen O'Connor assessment.

In 2024-2025, SFSU worked in collaboration with the California State University’s (CSU) Chancellor’s Office’s Civil Rights Programming and Services Unit to complete our Annual Report Survey. The results of the Annual Report Survey can be accessed at the link below: 

SFSU Annual Report Survey (2024-2025)

Message Regarding the Title IX and DHR 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 or CO), California State University, Fresno, San José State University, and Sonoma State University. The CSU Chancellor’s Office refined the categories of Title IX and DHR data it gathered to ensure the accuracy of campus Title IX and DHR Annual Reports and to facilitate more precise analysis and identification of patterns and trends. While the CO worked to update the data queries, CSU campuses deferred issuing Title IX and DHR Annual Reports for 2022-2023 until the Chancellor’s Office finalized new guidance for data collection and reporting for 2023-2024. 

During this time, all CSU campuses continued to issue the Annual Security Report, accessible for San Francisco State University, in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the Clery Act).  This report included 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 included, 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 and DHR Annual Report due to the specific definitional and geographical parameters required for Clery statistics. 

Prior Annual Title IX Reports:

Cozen O’Connor has completed its assessment of how the California State University (CSU) and its campuses respond to reports and incidents of discrimination and harassment. Through a series of interviews, campus visits, survey results and email feedback, they have identified core observations for improvements at both the system and campus levels. The recommendations from this assessment will guide and help us improve our Title IX and Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation (DHR) training, awareness, prevention, intervention, compliance and support systems.  

Please see the full systemwide report, systemwide summary report and the SFSU-specific report. They can also be found on the CSU’s Commitment to Change website.

SFSU's Implementation Plan

Since August 2023, SFSU’s Cozen Report Implementation Team met regularly and worked in close collaboration with the Chancellor’s Office’s Civil Rights Programming and Services unit to develop SFSU’s Implementation Plan. The Implementation Plan outlines the university's detailed strategy to respond to each recommendation from Cozen O'Connor and our plan to improve Title IX and DHR Programs at SFSU.

Read the Implementation Plan 

The Implementation Plan will be updated on the link above as additional tasks are completed. 

SFSU's Implementation Team 

  • Jamillah Moore, Vice President, Student Affairs, co-chair
  • Anna Titus, Assistant Vice President for Title IX and DHR, co-chair
  • Lori Makin-Byrd, Interim Title IX Coordinator (2023-24 co-chair)
  • Ingrid Williams, Associate Vice President of Human Resources
  • Janet Remolona, Personnel and Academic Affairs Officer, Lam Family College of Business
  • Mirna Vasquez, Office Coordinator of the Academic Senate
  • Iese Esera, Graduate Student in Public Administration (2023-2024)
  • Brandon Foley, President, Associated Students (2024-2025)
  • Mai Nhung Le, Professor, Asian American Studies
  • Loan Le, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
  • Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, Professor, School of Art
  • Persis Karim, Professor, Neda Nobari Chair in Iranian Diaspora Studies 
  • Jeff Greensite, Professor, Physics and Astronomy
  • Fred Smith, Associate Vice President for Equity and Community Inclusion
  • Carleen Mandolfo, Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs and Development
  • Pam Su, Associate Dean of Students (Fall 2023)
  • Alison Kleaver, University Counsel
  • Mia Reisweber, (co-facilitator), Associate Dean of Students
  • Teddy Albiniak, (co-facilitator), University Ombuds and Director of Strategic Initiatives, Office of the President 

FY 2022-2023 

FY 2021-2022 

Training Provided to CSU Hearing Officers 

FY 2020-2021