Sexual harassment is reprehensible and will not be tolerated by the University. It subverts the mission of the University and threatens the careers, educational experience, and well-being of students, faculty, and staff. In both obvious and subtle ways, the very possibility of sexual harassment is destructive to individual students, faculty, staff, and the university community as a whole. Sexual harassment interferes with a student's educational performance or an employee's work and creates an atmosphere of intimidation, low morale and hostility that the University will not tolerate.
Sexual assault is a form of sexual harassment.
As such, those behaviors that meet the conditions of sexual assault will result in applying procedures relevant to sexual harassment as well as sexual assault. For those behaviors that meet the conditions of sexual harassment but do not meet the standards of sexual assault, procedures relevant only to sexual harassment will apply. In such cases, procedures relevant to unprofessional conduct will be applied. The following consists of examples of behaviors that may lead to or constitute sexual harassment. Thus, depending on the behavior, one isolated incident may or may not be considered sexual harassment.