Sexual Harassment
427.01
Sexual Harassment
- The College provides its employees, students, and visitors a safe and respectful environment prohibiting harassment based on sex or gender, including sexual harassment, as defined below. The College provides an environment free from unwelcome sexual advances by employees of the College, free from requests for sexual favors by employees of the College and free from other verbal or physical conduct by employees constituting sexual harassment as herein defined and as is otherwise prohibited by state or federal law. The College prohibits all forms of harassment, including sexual harassment, as well as retaliation against those who report such incidents.
- Sexual harassment is unwelcome sexual advances, the request for sexual favors, or
other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when:
- Submission to such conduct is made a condition of an individual's employment or education;
- Submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as a basis for decisions affecting the individual's employment education, or participation in college programs; and/or
- Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work or academic performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment.
- The College develops, makes publicly available, and reviews and updates at least annually a set of Sexual Misconduct Procedures in compliance with Title VII and other applicable statutes.
Revised: 08-26-1991, 11-22-1993, 11-28-1994, 06-25-1998, 05-22-2000, 09-26-2005, 08-31-2020,
02-24-2025
Cabinet Reviewed: 11-05-2024