{"id":149402,"date":"2026-03-26T20:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149402\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:39:08","slug":"lehighs-title-ix-coordinator-position-remains-unfilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149402\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh\u2019s Title IX Coordinator position remains unfilled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh is in the process of appointing a Title IX and Equal Opportunity Compliance Coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>According to an email shared with The Brown and White, former officer Brigid Benicasa, who was appointed in <a href=\"https:\/\/thebrownandwhite.com\/2025\/10\/14\/lehigh-appoints-new-title-ix-officer-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October<\/a>, left the position on Dec. 8.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kayleigh Baker is currently serving as the interim coordinator. She was first appointed to the role in April after Karen Salvemini <a href=\"https:\/\/thebrownandwhite.com\/2025\/04\/11\/title-ix-coordinator-karen-salvemini-departs-from-lehigh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">left the position<\/a> and has since been reappointed following Benicasa\u2019s departure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh community was notified of Salvemini\u2019s departure and Benicasa\u2019s appointment through emails from Provost Nathan Urban. The community wasn\u2019t notified of Benicasa\u2019s departure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eocc.lehigh.edu\/title-ix\/what-title-ix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Title IX<\/a> is a federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in education programs or activities that receive financial assistance, including sexual harassment and violence. As a recipient of federal funding, the university is required to comply with Title IX.<\/p>\n<p>The Title IX coordinator is <a href=\"https:\/\/eocc.lehigh.edu\/title-ix\/reporting-options\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">responsible for<\/a> responding to reports of sex discrimination, tracking incidents of sexual misconduct and overseeing training on university policies related to these issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Brown and White typically doesn\u2019t send interview questions to sources in advance. In this case, The Brown and White sent 10 questions to Urban via email on March 2 regarding the search for a new coordinator and its impact on the office\u2019s services.<\/p>\n<p>Urban\u2019s administrative specialist Heather Huggins responded on March 4, writing, \u201cProvost Urban will be happy to answer your questions. I\u2019ve made note of your intended week timeline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Brown and White sent three follow-up emails to the provost\u2019s office and hasn\u2019t received a response. A voicemail was also left requesting comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Brown and White will update this story if Urban responds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh is in the process of appointing a Title IX and Equal Opportunity Compliance Coordinator. According to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[68235,4784,119,121,120,334,1198,295],"class_list":["post-149402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-2-min-read","tag-administration","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-brief","tag-student-and-campus-life","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}