Title IX
Welcome
Samuel Merritt University is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming educational and working environment for everyone where sexual misconduct, sexual assault, gender discrimination, and gender-based violence within the SMU community is not tolerated and is promptly addressed.
The Title IX Team receives complaints of sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, gender discrimination, and gender-based violence, conducts investigations of each complaint, and connects those affected with campus and community resources and support.
The U.S. Department of Education issued new regulations on May 6, 2020 mandating how colleges and universities must investigate and adjudicate sexual misconduct and sexual assault cases under Title IX, a federal statute that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex or gender in any federally funded education program or activity. Like all educational institutions that receive federal funding, Samuel Merritt University was required to amend its current policies and procedures to implement these new regulations.