The University of Colorado will increase the frequency of employees’ training on discrimination and harassment policies under new recommendations made in the wake of the Boulder campus’s botched handling of domestic violence allegations against a former football coach.
Chancellor Phil DiStefano accepted several recommendations from a committee formed last July to review the university’s policies and address his goals for the campus following the controversy surrounding Joe Tumpkin, a now-former assistant coach.
The committee’s report was announced late Thursday afternoon in the university’s internal publication, CU Boulder Today, though the full document hasn’t yet been made public.
DiStefano will implement the committee’s recommendation that faculty and staff be required to complete training every three years, rather than five.
He also accepted a recommendation to have the Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance report to Kelly Fox, the senior vice chancellor and chief financial officer who chaired the committee.
Read the full story
