Marywood University staff members also have the right to work in a non-hostile environment. Staff are available for assistance as a service and should be treated with politeness. Faculty, staff, or students can have their computing privileges immediately revoked by the director of the appropriate service for behavior that is deemed improper by that director in consultation with other appropriate University staff. Other Consequences of Violations, as noted below, may apply as well. As with all departments within the University, any claim of sexual harassment will be taken seriously and investigated immediately, and the results of such investigation passed on to the appropriate agency within the University as deemed appropriate by the affected director.
Sexual harassment can be verbal, visual, or physical.
It can be overt, or it can consist of persistent, unwanted attempts to change a professional relationship to a personal one. Sexual harassment can range from inappropriate put-downs of individual persons and unwelcome sexual flirtations, to physical abuse such as rape. It is coercive or threatening and creates an atmosphere that is not conducive to good working or academic conditions. In addition, others systems that can be accessed through the Marywood University system have their own individual policies. Rights to all individual accounts are non-transferable.