If you are a student looking for a Pennsylvania Title IX lawyer, this page lists the eight school guides on this site for Pennsylvania universities and sums up how their processes differ. Each university runs its own process under its own policy, and the written notice you receive controls your case.
How Pennsylvania universities handle Title IX cases
Each of these eight schools publishes its own sexual misconduct policy. This page does not describe any statewide or system-wide rule for them.
What they share is a split between tracks, so the first question in any case is which track you are on. Penn State’s Title IX Coordinator decides whether a matter runs under AD85 Title IX Sexual Harassment or under the non-discrimination policy AD91. Pitt runs the CS 27 Title IX Policy for allegations that meet the Title IX definition of sexual harassment and CS 20 Sexual Misconduct for other sexual misconduct. The IUP, Kutztown, Millersville, and West Chester policies sort allegations into regulatory and non-regulatory tracks, and a dismissed regulatory count can continue on the non-regulatory track or as a conduct charge.
Two of the policies, Bloomsburg’s PRP 4790 and Millersville’s sexual misconduct policy, cite Pennsylvania Act 16 of 2019 alongside the May 19, 2020 federal Final Rule.
Day counts also differ. Kutztown’s EC-007 counts days as calendar days, IUP’s appeal window is in business days, and Millersville’s policy states most windows as plain days without saying which kind. Read each deadline in the unit your own documents use.
Pennsylvania university guides
- Bloomsburg (Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania): covers PRP 4790, the Sexual Misconduct Policy, and the university-wide Title IX team serving Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, Mansfield, and Clearfield. The guide does not give an appeal number, so see the school page for appeal timing and use the deadline in your letter.
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP): covers IUP’s policy approved in March 2022 under the 2020 federal framework. The policy gives five business days from notice to appeal in writing.
- Kutztown University: covers Sexual Misconduct Policy EC-007, renamed from DIV-007 in June 2026. Under EC-007, a student appeal goes to the vice president for student affairs or a designee within 5 days of the decision, and EC-007 counts days as calendar days.
- Millersville University: covers the campus sexual misconduct policy and its regulatory and non-regulatory tracks. The policy gives 5 days from notice to appeal in writing and does not say whether those are calendar or business days.
- Penn State: covers AD85 Title IX Sexual Harassment and how the Coordinator decides between AD85 and AD91. AD85 gives five business days from the outcome or dismissal notice to appeal in writing to the Title IX Coordinator or designee.
- Temple University: covers Preventing and Addressing Sexual Misconduct, Policy 04.82.02, with hearing steps supplemented by the Student Conduct Code, Policy 03.70.12. Either party may appeal the hearing determination within 10 days of the determination notice.
- University of Pittsburgh (Pitt): covers the CS 27 path and when CS 20 applies instead. Under CS 27, either party may appeal the written determination within ten business days of receiving it; a student case under CS 20 follows the Student Code of Conduct for its formal process and any appeal.
- West Chester University: covers the 2025-26 Sexual Misconduct Policy, version 2.3.26. A student appeal goes through the Office of Student Conduct outcome appeal within five days of the published decision letter.
Common questions
Do all Pennsylvania public universities follow the same policy?
No. Each school in these guides has its own policy, and several split cases into separate tracks with different rules. Your notice should name the policy and track.
Is the appeal deadline the same everywhere?
No. The windows run from 5 days to ten business days, they start from different events, and they are counted in different kinds of days. Use the deadline stated in your own outcome letter.
What should I check first in my notice?
Check which policy it names, which track your case is on, and the version date. If the notice does not make the track clear, ask the office that sent it in writing.
Talk to a Pennsylvania Title IX lawyer
If you have received a notice and want to talk it through with a lawyer, you can reach us through our contact page.
Disclaimer
This page is general information only and is not legal advice. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any university named here. Reading this page or contacting us does not create an attorney-client relationship. University policies and procedures change. The notice you receive and the policy version it names control your case, so check your notice.
