Big Bend Community College (BBCC) recognizes its responsibility to investigate, resolve, implement supportive and corrective measures, and monitor the educational environment and workplace to promptly and effectively stop, remediate, and prevent discrimination on the basis of sex, as required by Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, and Washington State's Law Against Discrimination, and their implementing regulations.
BBCC’s is committed to provide equal opportunities in employment and to provide a work and academic environment that is free from conduct or behaviors that constitute sex discrimination, sex-based harassment, sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, intimate partner violence, stalking and/or retaliation by or against its employees, students, guests, trustees, visitors and contractors.
BBCC prohibits unwelcome sex-based conduct that, based on the totality of the circumstances, is subjectively and objectively offensive and is so severe or pervasive that it limits or denies a person's ability to participate in or benefit from the recipient's education program or activity.
Sexual violence includes non-consensual sexual intercourse, nonconsensual sexual contact, incest, statutory rape, domestic/dating/intimate partner violence, and stalking. Sex-based harassment may include unwelcome sexual advances, unwelcome requests for sexual favors or requests for sexual favors in exchange for some benefit, treating an individual differently from an otherwise similarly-situated individual based on sexual stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
The following person has been designated to administer the College's sex discrimination investigation and disciplinary procedures.
Kimberly A. Garza, VP of Human Resources & Labor
EO/Section 504/Title IX Coordinator
7662 Chanute Street NE
Building 1400, Office 1449
Moses Lake, WA 98837
509.793.2010 TDD 509.793.2325