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The institution will not tolerate harassment of any community member based upon membership in a protected class by any other member of the community or others with whom community members interact in connection with employment, education, or other institutionally related activities.
Harassment consists of unwelcome conduct, whether verbal, physical, or visual, based on a person's protected status, such as race, color, sex, national origin, religion, disability, age, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law; and which has the effect of interfering unreasonably with another's work or academic performance, or creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment.
Harassing conduct includes, but is not limited to: slurs; negative stereotyping; ethnic jokes; offensive written or graphic material; display of offensive objects; or threatening, intimidating, or hostile acts that denigrate or show hostility or aversion toward an individual or group because of membership in a protected group.
Note that conduct as described elsewhere in this handbook may not be sufficiently severe or pervasive to constitute harassment in the legal sense. However, the institution considers any conduct of this nature to be inappropriate within the campus community, and complaints concerning such conduct should be brought to the institution's attention as set forth below.
Definition of Harassment and Inappropriate Conduct
Definition of Sexual Harassment
Retaliation
Complaints of Harassment or Retaliation
Investigation
Reporting Incidents of Harassment and Inappropriate Behavior
Corrective Action
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