Utah Valley University’s former Title IX director is suing the Orem school, saying her firing was in retaliation for voicing concerns about the university’s response to allegations of discrimination and harassment.
In a civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in Utah’s Third District Court, Melissa Frost alleges that UVU police gave less attention to sexual assault allegations made by gay men; that school personnel prolonged a disciplinary case against a student athlete; and that campus officials were slow to refer students to her understaffed Title IX office.
Frost also says that her firing came shortly after she began looking into allegations that three women were harassed and discriminated against by “white males” in UVU’s upper management.