Join Husch Blackwell’s Education attorneys for a half-day training that focuses on the intersection between Title IX and the First Amendment’s protections for freedom of speech and freedom of association. This course is intended for Title IX Coordinators, Deputy Title IX Coordinators, student affairs professionals, and human resources professionals, who are called upon to process and resolve cases that involve alleged sexual harassment predicated on speech, or other expressive activity, that may be protected by the First Amendment. The course will include advanced scenarios involving academic freedom, social media-based misconduct, political speech, and will include a survey and overview of recent cases and legal developments. The course assumes participants will have a basic working knowledge of Title IX and its implementing regulations.
Continuing Education Credit
This program is pending approval for Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin continuing legal education credit, and HR Certification Institute and Society for Human Resource Management recertification credit.