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CHRISTIAN EVANS REPORTER idwestern State University has been operating without an effective Title IX Coordinator for the last two months. The former Title IX Coordinator, Rachael Fornof, was at MSU for about a year and a half and left the campus in early December of last year due to the relocation of her husband to a different part of the country. Fornof was a well-received Title IX Coordinator who was active in campus life, well known by students and brought campus-wide attention to Title IX via many different programs and events that she brought to campus. Since her departure, Amanda Snodgrass, the assistant athletic director of business and finance and student women administrator, has taken over from Fornof as the acting Interim Title IX Coordinator at the request of Keith Lamb, vice president of student affairs. Snodgrass graduated from MSU with a master’s in counseling, a bachelor’s in sociology and a minor in psychology; she also has a background of six years of investigative work on many cases of different varieties at either the primary or secondary role. Snodgrass said she took on the role of Interim Title IX Coordinator until a replacement was hired since she was already heavily involved with two other positions related to the athletic
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1) Title IX is a civil right t nation in education. 2) Title IX applies to ALL gender identity. 3) Schools should ensure share campus space (such workplaces) with their ab 4) Schools can issue no-c vent accused students fro acting with the complaina 5) ALL schools receiving public K-12 schools and t are subject to Title IX. department and had experience with investigative work. care of its students and when an incident report comes in, she “I was asked to take this over when Rachael left,” Snodgrass takes care of it as soon as possible. said. “I’ve been an investigator for, I think, six years so I have “I don’t want a student to wait and not feel like we are hearworked on a number of cases. I guess Dr. Lamb felt comfortable ing them,” Snodgrass said. “I definitely do more Title IX stuff with me taking over this until we found someone else.” than my actual, current job.” Snodgrass said she balances this position with her other According to Snodgrass, Lamb is in charge of hiring the new, positions by working from home permanent Title IX Coordinator, and practices a lot of time-manand she gets to be apart of the proagement as well as prioritizing her cess of finding. tasks. “Amanda is doing a fabulous “I work a lot,” Snodgrass said. job in the interim role,” Lamb said. “I am lucky that my job in athlet“I know this is a burden on her, as ics is somewhat flexible depending it would be on anyone since she on what our schedule is as far as already has her job and this is an games and everything, but that added responsibility. I know Kristi AMANDA SNODGRASS does mean that I work a lot of Schulte, who is the deputy Title IX INTERIM TITLE IX COORDINATOR hours and I work a lot from home Coordinator for students is helpmaking up all my paperwork. It’s ing quite a bit. The team is doing a just about time-management. I did good job of pulling it together [and] not want to take on this position and it just be something I did I have comfort in knowing they’re doing a good job so we can get every once in a while. For me, it’s really important to make sure the right person.” we are taking care of our students.” Lamb said Fornof set a good foundation for the next Title IX Snodgrass said it’s most important that the school is taking Coordinator to come into. He also said she is still engaged with
“For me, it’s really important to make sure we are taking care of our students.”
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