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New university Title IX coordinator: ‘I want to hear from students'From Pittsburg State UniversityWhen Jamie Thayer's children were teens, her home...
New university Title IX coordinator: ‘I want to hear from students'From Pittsburg State UniversityWhen Jamie Thayer's children were teens, her home was the place their friends gathered. 'It was a safe place for kids — the ones who didn't quite fit in,' she said. 'They all came over, I heard a lot about what they were going through, and it was so different than what I grew up with.'A few years later, Thayer is now the new director of Institutional Equity and Title IX Coordinator, and she's drawing from those experiences, as well as her own children, to help students feel heard.