Report 2022-109 Recommendation 14 Responses

Report 2022-109: California State University: It Did Not Adequately or Consistently Address Some Allegations of Sexual Harassment (Release Date: July 2023)

Recommendation #14 To: University, California State

To assist campuses in providing a harassment-free environment for their students and employees, the Chancellor's Office should, by July 2024, create a policy—such as an attachment to its sexual harassment policy—for conducting regular compliance reviews of its campus Title IX offices to determine whether they are complying with relevant portions of federal law, state law, CSU policy, and best practices for preventing, detecting, and addressing sexual harassment and related misconduct. The Chancellor's Office should publicize the results of these reviews to the extent possible considering confidentiality concerns, and it should similarly publicize any steps it has taken or plans to take to address areas of concern it identifies. In preparation for performing this work, the Chancellor's Office should determine the number of additional staff that it will need to conduct these reviews.

6-Month Agency Response

The Chancellor's Office is developing the process by which it will conduct regular compliance reviews and the mechanism for reporting the results. The process is expected to be finalized by July 2024. Reviews are expected to begin in August 2024 and results from the first round of reviews are anticipated by February 2025.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Pending

60-Day Agency Response

The Chancellor's Office Nondiscrimination Policy workgroup met in August 2023 to discuss the development of a policy, or an attachment to the current sexual harassment policy, for conducting regular compliance reviews of the campus Title IX offices.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Pending

All Recommendations in 2022-109

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.