All faculty, staff, and students have a right to work and study in an environment free of discrimination, including freedom from sexual harassment. The intent of this policy to foster responsible and respectful behavior in an academic and working environment free of discrimination.
Sexual harassment includes a wide range of behaviors.
Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment or academic decisions affecting that individual. Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work or academic performance or creating a hostile or offensive working or academic environment. Examples of conduct that may constitute sexual harassment are listed below. These examples are not all inclusive. It is possible for a series of individual incidents, each minor in itself, to have the cumulative effect over time of becoming sexually harassing.