Dozens of faculty and staff flocked to Faculty Senate on Tuesday as the MSU Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, or I3, administered a test run for a faculty sexual harassment e-learning video and quiz.

Since fall 2011, most students at MSU have been required to participate in a sexual harassment e-learning video before their enrollment at the university.

But upon seeing there wasn’t a similar e-learning opportunity for sexual harassment in place for the faculty at MSU, Director of the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives and university Title IX coordinator Paulette Granberry Russell and I3 saw to it that one would be created.

“This is a part of the university’s ongoing efforts to educate the campus community on the issues associated with relationship violence, sexual assault and the new policy that went into effect Jan. 1, 2015,” she said.

The exercise on Tuesday allowed for the Faculty Senate to critique the videos and quiz. They also educated themselves on what their reporting responsibilities are, what they can do to support students who issue complaints of sexual assault and also what faculty are expected to do in the event they are accused of sexual assault.

Associate clinical professor of law Jennifer Rosa said, “I think it’s very informative. I think that the Office of Inclusion is trying really hard to perfect this before it gets rolled out. There were a couple of things (in the videos and quiz) that need to be worked out, but overall I think it’s very informative.”

Russell, who has had a hand in tweaking the video and quiz ever since a previous test run in the fall of 2014, and has been hard at work improving it ever since, also agrees that the test run administered on Tuesday was a huge success.

“I think this went particularly well,” Granberry Russell said. “The Faculty Senate representing the faculty on this campus understand and appreciate the value of this and the importance this education for faculty and they’ve embraced it ... what we need is an opportunity for them to react and respond to the e-learning that will be a requirement of all faculty to participate in.”