28.140—Dissemination of policy.
(a) Notification of policy.
(1)
Each recipient shall implement specific and
continuing steps to notify applicants for
admission and employment, students and parents of
elementary and secondary school students,
employees, sources of referral of applicants for
admission and employment, and all unions or
professional organizations holding collective
bargaining or professional agreements with the
recipient, that it does not discriminate on the
basis of sex in the educational programs or
activities that it operates, and that it is
required by Title IX and these Title IX
regulations not to discriminate in such a manner.
Such notification shall contain such information,
and be made in such manner, as the designated
agency official finds necessary to apprise such
persons of the protections against discrimination
assured them by Title IX and these Title IX
regulations, but shall state at least that the
requirement not to discriminate in education
programs or activities extends to employment
therein, and to admission thereto unless §§ 28.300
through 28.310 do not apply to the recipient, and
that inquiries concerning the application of Title
IX and these Title IX regulations to such
recipient may be referred to the employee
designated pursuant to § 28.135, or to the
designated agency official.
(2)
Each recipient shall make the initial
notification required by paragraph (a)(1) of this
section within 90 days of September 29, 2000 or of
the date these Title IX regulations first apply to
such recipient, whichever comes later, which
notification shall include publication in:
(i)
Newspapers and magazines operated by such
recipient or by student, alumnae, or alumni groups
for or in connection with such recipient; and
(ii)
Memoranda or other written communications
distributed to every student and employee of such
recipient.
(b) Publications.
(1)
Each
recipient shall prominently include a statement of
the policy described in paragraph (a) of this
section in each announcement, bulletin, catalog,
or application form that it makes available to any
person of a type, described in paragraph (a) of
this section, or which is otherwise used in
connection with the recruitment of students or
employees.
(2)
(b)
pient shall not use or distribute a
publication of the type described in paragraph
(b)(1) of this section that suggests, by text or
illustration, that such recipient treats
applicants, students, or employees differently on
the basis of sex except as such treatment is
permitted by these Title IX regulations.
(c) Distribution.
Each recipient
shall distribute without discrimination on the
basis of sex each publication described in
paragraph (b)(1) of this section, and shall
apprise each of its admission and employment
recruitment representatives of the policy of
nondiscrimination described in paragraph (a) of
this section, and shall require such
representatives to adhere to such policy.