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Utah Valley University paid $45,000 to settle former Title IX director’s whistleblower lawsuit

The Orem university announced the settlement of Melissa Frost’s lawsuit Monday, but declined to say whether she was paid any money.

But a settlement document released Wednesday in response to a records request revealed how much the university paid to settle the whistleblower suit, where Frost claimed she was fired shortly after she began looking into allegations that three women were harassed and discriminated against by “white males” in UVU’s upper management, according to the suit filed earlier this year.

She also alleged that UVU police gave less attention to sexual assault allegations 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.