Human Resources

Hendrix College Title IX Office

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Hendrix College is committed to providing a workplace and educational environment, as well as other benefits, programs, and activities, that are free from discrimination and harassment based on a protected characteristic, and retaliation for engaging in a protected activity. Hendrix College values and upholds the equal dignity of all members of its community and strives to balance the rights of the parties in the grievance process during what is often a difficult time for all involved. 

To ensure compliance with federal, state, and local civil rights laws and regulations, and to affirm its commitment to promoting the goals of fairness and equity in all aspects of the education program or activity, Hendrix College has developed policies and procedures that provide a prompt, fair, and impartial process for those involved in an allegation of discrimination or harassment on the basis of a protected characteristic, and for allegations of retaliation.


Applicable Scope

The core purpose of this policy is the prohibition of all forms of discrimination. Sometimes, discrimination involves exclusion from activities, such as admission, athletics, or employment. Other times, discrimination takes the form of harassment or, in the case of sex-based discrimination, can encompass sexual harassment, sexual assault, stalking, sexual exploitation, dating violence or domestic violence. When an alleged violation of this anti-discrimination policy is reported, the allegations are subject to resolution using “Process A” or “Process B,” as detailed below. 

When the Respondent is a member of the Hendrix College community, a grievance process may be available regardless of the status of the Complainant, who may or may not be a member of the Hendrix College community. This community includes, but is not limited to, students, student organizations, faculty, administrators, staff, and third parties such as guests, visitors, volunteers, invitees, and campers. The procedures below may be applied to incidents, to patterns, and/or to the campus climate, all of which may be addressed and investigated in accordance with this policy.

Hendrix College recognizes that reports and/or Formal Complaints under this Policy may include multiple forms of discrimination and harassment as well as violations of other Hendrix College policies; may involve various combinations of students, employees, and other members of the Hendrix College community; and may require the simultaneous attention of multiple Hendrix College departments. Accordingly, all Hendrix College departments will share information, combine efforts, and otherwise collaborate, to the maximum extent permitted by law and consistent with other applicable Hendrix College policies, to provide uniform, consistent, efficient, and effective responses to alleged discrimination and harassment or retaliation.

Community Expectations

All members of the Hendrix community are expected to conduct themselves in a manner that does not infringe upon the rights of others. This policy is intended to define community expectations and to establish a mechanism for determining when those expectations have been violated. Upon notice of gender or sex-based discrimination as described by this policy, appropriate measures will be taken to stop the conduct, remedy the effects on individuals and the Hendrix community, and prevent recurrence. 

Title IX Contact

The Hendrix Public Safety office can be reached at 501-450-7711. The Publice Safety office has the primary responsibility for coordinating efforts related to the intake, initial assessment, investigation, resolution, and implementation of supportive measures to stop, remediate, and prevent discrimination, harassment, and retaliation prohibited under this Policy at Hendrix College. 

Independence and Conflict-of-Interest 

To raise any concern involving bias, conflict of interest, misconduct, or discrimination, contact the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost, Dr. Teresa Garrett, at tgarrett@hendrix.edu or 501-450-1254. 

Administrative Contact Information

Any member of the community who believes they have experienced gender or sex-based discrimination or misconduct that violates Hendrix College Title IX Policy should report that conduct in person, via email, telephone to:


Office: Public Safety
Phone: 501-450-7711


The following individuals have been designated by Hendrix College as Officials with Authority (OWA) to institute corrective measures on behalf of Hendrix College and may receive reports alleging possible policy violations. Once an OWA receives a report or notice of an alleged violation of the Hendrix College Title IX policy, that OWA shall immediately forward the information for review. The OWA shall not initiate the investigation process or contact any other involved party.

Reports made to the Title IX office or any of the OWAs listed below constitute actual knowledge on behalf of Hendrix College of an allegation of a violation of the Title IX Sexual Harassment Policy.

Name: Bernadette Hinkle 
Role: Vice President for Finance & Operations and CFO
Office: Fausett #103
Phone: 501-450-1334
Email: hinkle@hendrix.edu

Name: Dr. Teresa Garrett 
Role: Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost
Office: Fausett Hall, 2nd floor 
Phone: 501-450-1254 
Email: tgarrett@hendrix.edu

Name: Dr. Donna Eddleman
Role: Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs & Dean of Students 
Office: Student Life & Technology Center, 2nd floor, #211 
Phone: 501-450-1222 
Email: eddleman@hendrix.edu

Name: Amy Weaver 
Role: Director of Athletics 
Office: Wellness and Athletics Center, #213 
Phone: 501-450-3899 
Email: weaver@hendrix.edu 

Name: David Bugh
Role: Director of Public Safety 
Office: Office of Public Safety, 1553 Washington Avenue 
Phone: 501-450-1467 
Email: Bugh@hendrix.edu 

Inquiries may be made externally to:

Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C.  20202-1100
Customer Service Hotline #: (800) 421-3481
Facsimile: (202) 453-6012
TDD#: (877) 521-2172
Email: OCR@ed.gov
Web: http://www.ed.gov/ocr

Office for Civil Rights,
Kansas City Office
U.S. Department of Education
One Petticoat Lane
1010 Walnut Street, Suite 320
Kansas City, MO 64106
Telephone: (816) 268-0550
Facsimile: (816) 268-0559
Email: OCR.KansasCity@ed.gov

For complaints involving employee-on-employee conduct: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Title IX Team Training Materials

In compliance with 34 CFR Part 106.45(b)(10) of the 2020 Title IX Regulations that mandates the public sharing of training materials. The Title IX Office welcomes review of our training materials by clicking here