Title IX

To remain in compliance with Title IX Regulation 106.45(b)(10)(i)(d), the training materials used to train Odessa College's Title IX personnel, as of the 2025-2026 academic year, can be viewed here. 

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These materials are the exclusive property of Title IX Solutions, LLC. All rights reserved, ©2022. The publishing of these materials on this website is authorized by Title IX Solutions, LLC solely for use by this institution in compliance with Regulation 34 CFR §106.45(b)(10)(i)(D). No other use or dissemination by this institution or any third party is authorized without the prior written consent of Title IX Solutions, LLC.

The information and materials provided during this program were for educational purposes only and not intended to be legal advice. Attendees should seek independent legal advice concerning the issues presented.

Odessa College Employees can login to their custom Higher Ed Works online training account to access the following Title IX Trainings:

• Title IX: Protecting Students and School Employees from Sexual Harassment (General Awareness)
• Title IX: Additional Information for Coordinators, Investigators and Decision-Makers 

Title IX training resources for college personnel are available via STARLINK. Click Get Started and register as a First Time User to complete the Title IX training.

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Senate Bill 212

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STARLINK was established in 1989 with a Perkins State Leadership grant. Since its founding, STARLINK has been committed to empowering student success and providing exceptional professional development to higher education communities. Our online courses allow staff, faculty, adjuncts, and CEOs to take responsibility for their growth and development, giving them the ability to personalize their learning with on-demand courses. STARLINK provides courses that maintain academic rigor, technical knowledge and skill sets which drive positive growth. STARLINK offers members a personalized dashboard to track training and 24/7 access to over 200 hours of professional development training through its eLibrary. New courses, features, and webinars are released monthly.   STARLINK currently provides professional development programming annually to member colleges and universities across the United States, Canada, and throughout the world through U.S. Military and embassies. STARLINK, empowering student success!

Recent legislation, SB212, requires all employees (both faculty and staff) at a public or private post-secondary institution to promptly report any knowledge of any incidents of sexual assault, sexual harassment, dating violence, or stalking "committed by or against a person who was a student enrolled at or an employee of the institution at the time of the incident." 

SB212 has strong criminal and administrative penalties for not complying with the law. Employees failing to report incidents of sexual assault can be charged with a Class B Misdemeanor and terminated. If the person intentionally tries to cover up the incident, they could also face a Class A misdemeanor charge. Furthermore, the college may also face a disciplinary action as a failure to comply with the bill’s requirements and could incur as much as a $2 million penalty. 

Employees who make a report, or assist in an investigation of a report, are protected under the legislation. The legislation has only two exceptions for requiring reports of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence or stalking:

• if you are the victim of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence or stalking; or
• if the disclosure is made at a public awareness event sponsored by the college or college-affiliated student organization. 

Please use the Sexual Misconduct link on the bottom of our home page to report all information concerning an incident. The reporter must provide all information that may be relevant to the investigation. It is not incumbent on the reporter to discern which category the incident may be classified.

Thank you in advance for your immediate support and cooperation. Should you have any questions or need additional information, please feel free to contact Kim McKay - kmckay@odessa.edu. We all have a responsibility to ensure that this campus and our extension centers are safe places to live, learn, work and play. 

Students and Employees are encouraged to report a Title IX violation using the college’s SEXUAL MISCONDUCT REPORT when:

• An incident has negatively affected your academics, employment, or student involvement.
• You have concerns about your safety or the safety of others.
• You need assistance and support, but you do not want to disclose details or names.
• You would like a No Contact Order to prohibit communication between you and another party.
• You would like the college to take action and investigate the incident.  

The report may be completed anonymously; however, anonymous reports mitigate the college’s ability to support the victim/complainant while providing the following interim supportive measures:

• Academic accommodations (revising schedule, transitioning to remote learning, rescheduling due dates for assignment or exam)
• Access to medical and mental health services, including counseling
• Change in campus housing and/or dining
• A No Contact directive pending the outcome of an investigation (both parties have no verbal, electronic, written, or third party communication with one another)
• Provide a campus escort to ensure that you can move safely between school programs and activities;
• Assistance identifying an advocate to help secure addition resource or assistance including off-campus and community advocacy, support and services.

Consent is an act of reason and deliberation. A person who possesses and exercises sufficient mental capacity to make an intelligent decision demonstrates consent by performing an act recommended by another. Consent assumes a physical power to act and a reflective, determined, and unencumbered exertion of these powers.

Intentionally or knowingly for adult or child:

• Causes the penetration of the anus or sexual organ of another person by any means, without that person’s consent;
• Causes the penetration of the mouth of another person by the sexual organ of the actor, without the person’s consent;
• Causes the sexual organ of another person, without the person’s consent, to contact or penetrate the mouth, anus, or sexual organ of another person, including the actor.

Is without the consent of the other person if:

• The actor compels the other person to submit or participate by the use of/or threatening the use of physical force or violence against the other person, or the person believes that the actor has the present ability to execute the threat;
• The person has not consented and the actor knows the person is unconscious or physically unable to resist;
• The actor knows that as a result of mental disease or defect the other person is at the time of the sexual assault incapable either of appraising the nature of the act or of resisting;
• The other person has not consented and the actor knows the other person is unaware that the sexual assault is occurring; or
• The actor has intentionally impaired the other person’s power to appraise or control the other person’s conduct by administering any substance without the other person’s knowledge.

An act by a member or a family or household against another member of the family or household that is intended to result in physical harm, bodily injury, assault, or sexual assault, or that is a threat that reasonably places a member in fear of imminent physical harm, bodily injury, assault, or sexual assault, but does not include defensive measures to protect oneself.

Abuse, by a member of the family or household toward a child of the family or household.

A person commits an offense if the person, on more than one occasion and pursuant to the same scheme or course of conduct that is directed specifically at another person, knowingly engages in conduct, including following the other person.

The actor knows or reasonably believes the other person will regard actions as threatening:

• Bodily injury or death for another person;
• Bodily injury or death for a member of the other person’s family or household
• That an offense will be committed against the other person’s property

Would cause a reasonable person to fear:

• Bodily injury or death for him/herself
• Bodily injury or death for a member of the person’s family or household.
• That the offense will be committed against the person’s property.