The University of Missouri Title IX office has released data it collected from the 2014 fall semester.
Of the 144 reports that were released, 135 fell under one or more of the five categories the office uses to classify violations.
The five categories used to classify offenses are sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, dating or intimate partner violence, stalking on the basis of sex and sex discrimination.
Of the 135 reports that were classified as an offense, sexual misconduct had the most violators at 55. This includes nonconsensual sexual intercourse or sexual contact.
Title IX Investigator Salama Gallimore said she also does investigations into sexual orientation discrimination as well as the rest of the categories.
She described what the office considers the most general category of the five.
“The broad category of behavior that’s prohibited at the university is sex discrimination and that’s any sort of adverse action taken against a person on the basis of their sex.”
Linda Bennett, Title IX Coordinator, said the goal of collecting this data is to have annual reports the office can start providing by summer 2016.
She said the information will be helpful in determining trends and patterns that will help the office in the future.
“We look at the information and determine what trends, like individuals, or places, or events that have occurred throughout the year, and those trends and patterns help us keep our students and faculty and staff safe here on campus,” Bennett said
This data was not available prior to the office being developed in June of 2014, but she hopes it will help in the future.
