The CCRT Timeline
August 2022
CCRT is formally created
September-October 2022
Conducted listening sessions with faculty, staff, students, and alumni to learn their priorities for the CCRT. Recruited applicants for membership from across all U-M campuses.
October-December 2022
CCRT leadership attended staff meetings on all three campuses, encompassing many schools, departments, and programs to provide information about the formation of the CCRT.
December 6, 2022
First meeting of the full CCRT
January 2023
Four working groups are constituted: Repairing Harm, Obstacles to Reporting, Prevention, and Organizational Structure
February-April 2023
Working groups begin meeting to collect data, analyze issues, and identify short- and long-term goals.
April 13, 2023
Second full CCRT meeting.
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First All Member Meeting Held December 6, 2022
CCRT members gathered on December 6, 2022 for our first membership-wide meeting. U-M President Santa Ono welcomed the group and provided opening remarks. During the meeting, the Co-Leads introduced themselves, presented a proposed mission statement, and provided some background and information on the structure of the CCRT. The members then engaged in a brainstorming activity about goals and aspirations for the CCRT.
Here are our next steps following the meeting:
- Members were sent a draft mission statement for their feedback.
- Members are selecting their working group assignment.
- Member are indicating their desire to serve as a Chair or Co-Chair of a working group. (With stipend.)
- Meeting agenda
Looking ahead to January 2023:
- Based on member ranking and selections, working group will be constituted.
- CCRT Co-Leads will meet with working group Co-Chairs for onboarding.
- Working groups will begin meeting and setting priorities.
Listening Sessions
Recognizing that the mandate of the CCRT is to hear community feedback and address the issues that the community identifies as priorities, the Co-Leads hosted a series of listening sessions in the months of September and October 2022. The Co-Leads invited the following groups to participate in separate listening sessions: student survivors of sexual misconduct, alumni survivors of sexual misconduct, U-M non-faculty staff, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA), the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), Central Student Government (CSG), student organizations serving students of color, student organizations serving LGBTQ+ students, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC), and the LSA Student Government Sexual Misconduct Response and Prevention Task Force.
Informational Sessions
The Co-Leads contacted 21 schools and colleges at U-M Ann Arbor and the Chancellors of U-M Flint and U-M Dearborn, asking for time on the agenda of their leadership/chairs and directors/faculty meetings (as appropriate) to present information about the CCRT and extend invitations for involvement. The Co-Leads have been visiting those schools, colleges, and campuses that responded to our request and giving brief presentations; those informational visits are scheduled to continue into November 2022. Any other units or groups who would like the CCRT Co-Leads to provide information about the CCRT at their meetings is invited to contact the Co-Leads at ccresponseteam@umich.edu.
Community Input
Through listening sessions, one-on-one meetings with community members, emails and the CCRT website suggestions page, members of the U-M community are sharing their thoughts and input with the Co-Leads. The list below contains some of the most prominent themes and issues, that people have raised. At the first meeting of the CCRT, members will determine how to organize and prioritize attention to these issues.
- Identifying, implementing, and providing supportive follow-up resources for mandatory sexual misconduct trainings
- Increasing visibility of actions, results, and support from highest levels of leadership
- Enhancing awareness of support resources and ancillary services (advocacy services, employment support, academic support, improved communication) for impacted individuals
- Enhancing awareness of U-M’s reporting process, including increasing transparency and awareness of what happens after a report is made, improving accessibility and clarity of language related to education tools and links for reporting
- Improving awareness, instructions, structures, and systems related to “mandatory reporting” by Individuals with Reporting Obligations
- Improving transparency, communication, and effectiveness related to all levels of the sexual misconduct resolution process, including increasing collaboration and communication between individual departments and ECRT
- Questions about the selection of CCRT Co-Leads and membership units
- Questions about how the CCRT differs from other initiatives and offices at U-M
- Broadening/clarifying the scope of CCRT’s mission
- Centering under-represented groups in the CCRT’s work
- Helping individual departments learn to take actionable steps to mitigate risk of harm from sexual misconduct