Big Bend Community College (BBCC) recognizes its responsibility to investigate, resolve, implement corrective measures, and monitor the educational environment and workplace to 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 conduct on the basis of sex, that is determined by a reasonable person to be so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the college's educational programs or activities or BBCC employment.
Sexual assault 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 an aid, benefit, or service, treating an individual differently on the basis of sex, or on the basis of their current, potential, or past pregnancy or related conditions.
The following person has been designated to administer the College's Title IX investigation and grievance 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