Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3341 - Bowling Green State University › Chapter 3341-5 - Administrative Staff Policies › Section 3341-5-07 - Consensual amorous relationships policy

Current through all
			 regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								Policy statement
			 and purpose
Bowling Green state university (BGSU)
				promotes an atmosphere of professionalism based on mutual trust and respect.
				The integrity of interaction among faculty, staff, and students must not be
				compromised. Consensual amorous relationships between persons having an
				evaluative, supervisory, or decision-making relationship present an inherent
				risk of a conflict of interest. The purpose of the consensual amorous
				relationship policy is to define consensual amorous relationships and to define
				the circumstances when these relationships are impermissible at BGSU and may
				subject individuals involved to discipline appropriate to the
				circumstances.
(B)
								Definitions
(1)
									Adjunct faculty:
A part-time faculty member who provides
				instructional service to the "iiniversity, but who is not regularly or
				continuously on the faculty.
(2)
									BGSU
			 community:
Faculty, adjunct faculty, faculty
				administrators, staff members, students, and vendors.
(3)
									Consensual
			 amorous relationships:
For purposes of this policy, a
				consensual amorous relationship is one involving individuals who mutually and
				consensually understand a relationship to be romantic and/or sexual in nature
				and where one of the individuals is in an evaluative or supervisory or decision
				making relationship with the other. The definition of a consensual amorous
				relationship does not include married persons. Amorous relationships with
				individuals below the age of eighteen are not considered consensual and are
				prohibited.
(4)
									Evaluative or supervisory authority:
An individual has direct evaluative,
				supervisory or decision-making authority when that individual is responsible
				for, or makes or could make contributions to evaluating, assessing, grading,
				assigning, promoting, disciplining, or otherwise determining the terms,
				conditions, or benefits of the other participant's academic or employment
				performance, progress, or potential.
Common examples of evaluative or
				supervisory authority include:
(a)
										Assessing
			 academic or research performance;
(b)
										Determining
			 academic or research performance;
(c)
										Influencing
			 academic or research progress or potential;
(d)
										Assessing
			 employment performance;
(e)
										Evaluating employment progress;
(f)
										Assessing
			 employment potential;
(g)
										Determining entitlement to any institutionally
			 conferred right;
(h)
										determining eligibility for any institutionally
			 conferred benefit;
(i)
										Providing an opportunity to any institutional conferred
			 right or benefit;
(j)
										Overseeing of academic, research, or
			 employment;
(k)
										Managing of academic research, or employment;
			 and
(l)
										Directing co-curricular, athletic, or other
			 institutionally prescribed activities.
(5)
									Full-time
			 faculty:
All persons holding full-time academic
				appointment or rank who are not administrators. All persons holding full-time
				faculty contracts. All persons holding faculty rank who serve as full-time
				faculty in the university libraries.
(6)
									Faculty
			 administrators:
The president, the provost, vice
				presidents (holding faculty rank), associate and assistant deans, associate and
				assistant vice-provosts and all individuals holding appointments as dean,
				chair, or director.
(7)
									Staff
			 members:
Any individual, other than faculty, who
				is employed by BGSU. This includes classified and administrative staff, or
				other employees not defined within other sections of this policy.
(8)
									
			 Students:
Any individuals who are:
(a)
										Currently
			 enrolled in a credit or non-credit class at one of the colleges or campuses of
			 BGSU;
(b)
										Matriculated or non-matriculated;
(c)
										Prospective
			 students (including applicants and accepted applicants.
(9)
									
			 Vendor:
Any individual who or company or
				business which contracts with the niniversity to provide goods or services to
				the university.