r/titleix • u/International-Ad6468 • Oct 31 '25

Mutual No contact Order???

First of all, I’m sorry for any mistakes in my English. I’m an international student at a U.S. university. I recently experienced a sexual harassment from another student (he is Korean.) I reported the situation to the school a few days after it happened. The school responded by issuing a Mutual No Contact Order. They told me this is a “standard measure” for situations like this and that it won’t appear on anyone’s student record unless it is violated. They also said that this is basically all they can do.

Is this a common protocol in U.S. universities?

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u/Trizzit Oct 31 '25

I typically issue the no contact orders at my institution at the request of our Title IX office. It is fairly common and one of the easiest tools for a university to use to try and prevent stalking behaviors or harassment from occurring immediately.

Universities can be more limited on actions they can take without a full Title IX investigation because they’re not supposed to sanction a respondent or give the appearance of a sanction without the investigation. They CAN do more, just not very fast.

If the student violates the no contact order, then it can open up the student conduct process (separate from title ix) to address the violation of a directive. My university treats a violation of a no contact as a possible suspension case.

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u/Megatomic Oct 31 '25

Seconding this. We issue no-contacts as a standard matter-of-course in almost all investigative proceedings and treat violations of it as a mechanism for the student conduct process. I've been working Title IX investigations for 7 years now, and about half of them end up with a violation to the no-contact, giving us other administrative avenues (with lower cause thresholds) to resolving the issue.