Campus SaVE Act / Title IX
LSUHSC-NO is committed to providing a learning, working, and living environment that
promotes integrity, civility, and mutual respect in an environment free from discrimination
on the basis of sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, & pregnant/parenting
status as well as sexual misconduct which includes sexual harassment, dating violence,
domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
(PM-73: Prohibiting Power-based Violence, including Sex- and Gender-based Harassment and Discrimination,
and Sexual Misconduct)
Violence may cause lasting physical and psychological harm and can permanently impact our employees' and students' lives. LSUHSC-NO believes that violent, threatening or harassing behavior violates our institutional values and presents a barrier to fulfilling the Health Sciences Center's mission of education, research and public service.
All LSUHSC-NO employees and students have a reasonable expectation to a safe and secure
working and learning environment free of threats and assaults. Employees and students
also have a responsibility to help ensure the safety and security of the LSUHSC-NO
campus. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans is committed
to maintaining a campus free from violence including sexual assaults, threats of violence
including verbal and non-verbal threatening behavior, and harassment. Such behavior
is unacceptable and is not permitted on the LSUHSC-NO campus.
(CM-44 - Campus Security Policy)
Sexual Violence includes:
Domestic Violence
Attempting to cause or causing physical harm to another family or household member,
placing another family or household member in fear or physical harm, and threats of
force or duress.
Dating Violence
Violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic
or intimate nature with the victim is dating violence. The existence of such a relationship
shall be determined based on a consideration of the following factors: the length
of the relationship, the type of relationship, and the frequency of interaction between
the persons involved in the relationship.
Stalking
The intentional and repeated following or harassing of another person that would cause
a reasonable person to feel alarmed or to suffer emotional distress. Stalking shall
include but not be limited to the intentional and repeated uninvited presence of the
perpetrator at another person's home, workplace, school, or any place which would
cause a reasonable person to be alarmed, or to suffer emotional distress as a result
of verbal or behaviorally implied threats of death, bodily injury, sexual assault,
kidnapping, or any other statutory criminal act to himself or any member of his family
or any person with whom he is acquainted.
Sexual Assault
Sexual assault is any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit
consent of the recipient. Falling under the definition of sexual assault are sexual
activities as forced sexual intercourse, forcible sodomy, child molestation, incest,
fondling, and attempted rape.
Click this link to read the Victims' Rights Document
Click this link for information regarding LSUHSC Campus Police
Click this link for information regarding the Jeanne Clery Act & crime reports
LSUHSC CONTACTS:
LSUHSC New Orleans Title IX Coordinator
Each Chancellor shall designate a Title IX Campus Coordinator to oversee on-campus
Title IX compliance for their respective campus.
Leigh Smith-Vaniz (she/her/hers)
(504) 568-2211
titleix@lsuhsc.edu
Resource Center Building
433 Bolivar Street, Ste. 826A
New Orleans, LA 70112
LSUHSC New Orleans Campus Police
(504) 568-8999
Individuals are also strongly encouraged to report the offense to campus police or
local law enforcement if they believe criminal conduct occurred (i.e. sexual assault,
sexual battery, stalking, etc.). To the extent possible, the Complainant and those
who receive the complaint should preserve evidence and not disturb a potential crime
scene. (This includes preserving all text or email communications that may be related
to the incident.
Confidential Advisors
Campus designees selected by Title IX Campus Coordinators and trained in accordance
with Louisiana law to provide confidential services to students regarding reporting,
supportive measures, rights to report to law enforcement and other information under
this policy.
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