Co-Sponsored by Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC and St. John’s Law School

How do you play by the rules in today’s environment? This complimentary conference is designed to provide you with current information on the following topics:

• Governance Responsibility for Athletics: Designing the Safety Net
• Report Card: Sexual Assault in Athletics—Prevention and Response
• Title IX Gender Equity Review / Gender Identity Issues / Disability
• Crisis Time for Athletics: Not Just the NCAA

Keynote Speaker
Valerie B. "Val" Ackerman, Commissioner of the Big East

Agenda

8:30 - 9 a.m.
Registration

9 - 9:30 a.m.
Keynote
Val Ackerman, Commissioner of the Big East

9:45 - 10:45 a.m.
Session #1: Governance Responsibility for Athletics: Designing the Safety Net
Speakers: Frances Bouchoux, Chief Compliance Officer, Stevens Institute of Technology and Monica C. Barrett, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC
Moderator: Glenn Gerstner, St. John’s University

• Reporting structure of the Athletics Department
  - Relationship between Compliance Officer and Director of Athletics
• Anatomy of the compliance function
• NCAA obligations
• Independent reporting mechanisms
• Monitoring training and education
• Policy gap analysis
• Internal audit and investigations
  - Risk management (prioritization of risk; mitigation plans; reporting to the Board)

11 a.m. – Noon
Session #2: Report Card: Sexual Assault in Athletics—Prevention and Response
Speakers: Anastasia Coleman, Title IX Coordinator and Director of Institutional Equity and Compliance, Fordham University; Felicia McGinty, Vice President for Student Affairs, Rutgers University and Jackie Moran, Director of Compliance and Title IX Coordinator, Rutgers University
Moderator: Jayma Meyer, Simpson Thacher; Indiana University

• OCR Resolution Agreements related to Title IX sexual assault and athletics
• Title IX changes
• NCAA's requirements
• Investigating Athletics Department culture
• Training on sexual assault
• Crisis management

Noon - 12:30 p.m.
Lunch

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Session #3: Title IX Gender Equity Review/ Gender Identity Issues/Disability
Speakers: E. Katherine Hajjar, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC and Maria Anderson, Montclair State University
Moderator: Jill Pilgrim, Pilgrim & Associates; Track & Field Athletes Association; The Center for the Protection of Athletes' Rights; and NCAA Div I Committee on Infractions

• Gender Equity
  - What to do when OCR conducts a compliance review
  - Surveys of student athlete interest and athletic opportunities
  - What to do before OCR comes to campus: assessing your program and conducting an audit
• Gender Identity
  - NCAA guidance
  - What is the law today
  - What should college policies address
• Disabilities Issues and Intercollegiate
  - Athletics Alternate sports
  - Accommodations for student athletes
  - Academic accommodations

1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Session #4: Crisis Time for Athletics: Not Just the NCAA
Speakers: Richard Evrard, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC and Jeff Hathaway, Hofstra University Director of Athletics
Moderator: Ettie Ward, St. John’s School of Law

• Institutional drug testing policies
• Academic integrity
• Ambassador programs
• FBI Inquiry into Men’s Basketball

This event is intended for the invited guests of Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC and St. John's Law School. Bond and St. John's reserve the right to deny admission to any registrant.