SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
DEFINITIONS
The following are the definitions of conduct prohibited by the sexual misconduct policy.
Sexual harassment is:
• unwelcome
• sexual, sex-based, and/or gender based, verbal,
written, online, and/or physical conduct.
Hostile Environment is created when sexual harassment is:
• sufficiently severe, or
• persistent or pervasive, and
• objectively offensive that it:
unreasonably interferes with, denies,
or limits someone's ability to
participate in or benefit from the
institution's educational [and/or
employment, social, and/or residential
program.
Sanctions range from warning through expulsion/ termination
• any intentional sexual touching,
• however slight,
• with any object,
• by a person upon another person,
• that is without consent and/or by force.
Sanctions range from warning through expulsion/termination.
Non-consensual sexual intercourse is:
• any sexual intercourse
• however slight,
• with any object,
• by a person upon another person,
• that is without consent and/or by force.
Sanctions typically result in suspension or expulsion/termination.
Sexual exploitation occurs when one person takes non-consensual or abusive sexual advantage of another for his/her own advantage or benefit, or to benefit or advantage anyone other than the one being exploited, and that behavior does not otherwise constitute one of other sexual misconduct offenses.
Sanctions range from warning through expulsion/termination.
Intimate partner violence is:
• violence or emotional and/or psychological abuse between those in an intimate relationship toward each other.
Sanctions range from warning through expulsion/termination.
Stalking 1:
• a course of conduct,
• directed at a specific person,
• on the basis of actual or perceived
membership in a protected class,
• that is unwelcome, and,
• would cause a reasonable person to feel
fear.
Sanctions range from warning through expulsion/ termination.
Stalking 2:
• repetitive and menacing
• pursuit, following, harassing, and/or
interfering with the peace and/or safety
of another.
Sanctions typically result in suspension or expulsion/termination.
Retaliation is:
• any adverse action,
• taken against a person participating in a
protected activity,
• because of that person's participation
in that protected activity
― subject to limitations imposed by the
First Amendment and/or academic
freedom
Sanctions range from warning through expulsion/ termination.