CUNY Compliance Training FAQs

CUNY Compliance Training FAQs for Employees

Please find information regarding compliance trainings below.

Mandatory Training Deadlines

Employee Sexual Prevention Response Course (鈥淓SPARC鈥) 鈥 Deadline dates denoted.

  • Part-timers & Adjuncts hired as of the Fall 2025 semester鈥12/22/25.
  • Part-times and Adjuncts hired as of the Spring 2026 semester鈥5/15/26.
  • All full-time employees鈥5/29/26.

Workplace Violence Prevention (鈥淲VP鈥) 鈥 Deadline dates denoted.

  • Part-timers & Adjuncts hired as of the Fall 2025 semester鈥12/22/25.
  • Part-times and Adjuncts hired as of the Spring 2026 semester鈥5/15/26.
  • All full-time employees鈥5/29/26.

Separately, if a faculty or staff employee supervises one or more employees, they are also required to take:

Gender Based Violence Training (鈥淕BVT鈥) 鈥 Deadlines dates denoted.

  • Part-timers & Adjuncts hired as of the Fall 2025 semester鈥12/22/25.
  • Part-times and Adjuncts hired as of the Spring 2026 semester鈥5/15/26.
  • All full-time employees鈥5/29/26.
     

About Gender Based Violence Training (GBVT)

GBVT is only for supervisors and all Human Resource professionals.  We are aware that some faculty and staff members who are currently not supervising any employees, have questioned why they are being asked to complete the training.  This is an issue that we are working with CUNY to resolve.  In the meantime, if an employee is a supervisor of staff, they are required to take the training.

Employee groups who currently are NOT required to participate in the Trainings

Currently employees listed as POIs (Persons of Interest) and Federal Work Study are not required to complete CUNY鈥檚 Compliance Trainings. Should this change for either employee group, HR will notify the affected the individuals. 

The Research Foundation (鈥淩F鈥) provides the compliance trainings to employees hired through RF.  Hence, RF employees are not required to complete CUNY鈥檚 Compliance Trainings.

Employees who work at more than one CUNY campus, their compliance trainings will be assigned to their primary campus.  If CCNY is not an employee鈥檚 primary campus, then CCNY鈥檚 Office of Human Resources (鈥淗R鈥) Compliance Training Administrators will not have access to the training records in Brightspace for the employee and CCNY will not be accountable for their training completion. Find the . 

Periodically, CCNY HR will provide reports of employees who are assigned to the campus. In as much as possible, the divisions and departments should only communicate notifications about compliance trainings to the employees who appear on these reports.

Instructions to access the Trainings

  • ESPARC, WVP, and GBVT are available in CUNY , which require CUNYfirst credentials (i.e., @login.cuny.edu) to access the trainings. Employees will then find the compliance courses within the Compliance tab under My Courses.
  • Employees active in CUNYfirst are automatically registered for the training in Brightspace.
  • For Brightspace navigation and job aid, please reference CCNY Compliance Training website.
  • Please contact Brightspace Support at bbsupport@ccny.cuny.edu or (212) 650-6990 if you require log on support.
  • If you require computer access to complete the training, please contact the campus Tech Center at (212) 650 8752 or visit NAC 1/301 to schedule a reservation.
  • If you need assistance with access to CUNYFirst, please contact ServiceDesk@ccny.cuny.edu

If you have any questions related to the ESPARC, WVP, and GBVT CUNY Compliance Trainings, please contact Andrea Yarde in CCNY鈥檚 HR department: (212) 650-7669 or ayarde@ccny.cuny.edu .

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If you have any questions related to Cybersecurity Awareness training, please contact the Office of Information Technology鈥檚 (鈥淚T鈥), Information Security Office at ITsecurity@ccny.cuny.edu .

Last Updated: 09/03/2025 17:10