CUNY Compliance Training FAQs

Compliance Training will be available on Brightspace beginning Monday, August 31, 2026, for the 2026–2027 academic year.

You can access the training under the "Compliance" section on the Homepage in My Courses.

The following trainings will be available:

• ESPARC – Employee Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response Course
• WVP – Workplace Violence Prevention
• GBVT – Gender-Based Violence Training - all CUNY HR staff and Supervisors/Managers, only

Please note that Title VI Training will become available at a later date.

What Is Required:

New Hires and Campus Transfers

• Course access will be available one business day after your start date.Required compliance training must be completed within 7 days of your start date or when the training becomes available.

Full-Time Faculty and Staff

• All required training must be completed by May 28, 2027.

Adjunct Faculty and Part-Time Staff

• All required training must be completed by May 27, 2027, the end of the Spring 2027 semester, as referenced in the Spring Semester Calendar.

GBVT is a course that is assigned to all supervisors/managers and all Human Resource professionals only.  

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

The Research Foundation (“RF”) provides the compliance trainings to employees hired through RF.  Hence, RF employees are not required to complete CUNY’s Compliance Trainings. Please contact the campus RF HR gsphr@ccny.cuny.edu for support. 

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’s primary campus, then CCNY’s Office of Human Resources (“HR”) 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 list of Compliance Training Administrators here. 

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.

• ESPARC, WVP, GBVT, and Understanding Title VI Compliance Trainings are available in CUNY Brightspace, 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
• Cybersecurity Awareness Training: For guidance, please contact IT Security, itsecurity@ccny.cuny.edu or the CCNY Service Desk, servicedesk@ccny.cuny.edu , or  (212) 650-7878.
• Ethics training: For Guidance, please contact Joshua Barnes, jbarnes@ccny.cuny.edu , The City College of New York: Office of General Counsel.
• CCNY RF employees trainings: please contact the campus RF HR gsphr@ccny.cuny.edu for support.