Recent guidelines for Title VII of the Civil Rights Act focus upon sexual harassment as an unlawful practice. Recent interpretations of Title IX of the Education Amendments similarly delineate sexual harassment as discriminatory and unlawful. SUNY Brockport is committed to maintaining a workplace and a learning environment free of sexual harassment and intimidation. Sexual harassment is unacceptable behavior, unlawful and intolerable. Any member of the College community found guilty of sexual harassment will be subject to appropriate disciplinary action which may include discharge or expulsion.
Sexual harassment takes many forms, from constant joking to physical assault.
It may involve threats that you will fail in class or that you will lose your job. It may make your study, work, or living environment uncomfortable through continued sexual comments, suggestions, or pressures. Submission to, or rejection of, such conduct by an individual is used as a basis for evaluation in making employment or academic decisions affecting the individual. Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's academic or work performance creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive College environment. The victims of sexual harassment most often find themselves bothered by persons who exert some power over them, either in their academic program or on the job.