New Jersey Institute of Technology
Undergraduate Non-Branch Campus
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On this page, FIRE has excerpted policies that address speech and expression. You may download the full policy in .pdf form, below.
Policies on Diversity and Multiculturalism (Learn More)
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Sexual Harassment Training: Examples of Other Discriminatory Harassment 08-09
Examples of such harassment include:
using epithets, slurs, negative stereotypes
threatening, intimidating, or engaging in hostile acts that relate to a protected characteristic
offensive jokes or pranks targeted at members of a protected group
placing on walls, bulletin boards or elsewhere on NJIT's premises, or circulating in the workplace by oral, written, electronic or graphic means any material that belittles, mocks or shows hostility toward a person or group because of protected characteristics.
Sexual Harassment Policy 8-09
Hostile Environment Harassment: This harassment arises where one or more members of the university community engage in gender based conduct that unreasonably creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive working and/or study environment that has the effect of altering one's work or academic performance and the conditions of employment or study at the university.
Currently, as established under controlling
case law interpretation of both state and federal laws, hostile environment sexual harassment consists of conduct that; (1) would not have occurred but for the victim's gender and (2) is sufficiently severe or pervasive as (3) adjudged by a reasonable person (of the same gender as the victim under New Jersey law) to (4) create a hostile, intimidating, abusive or offensive working or studying environment, adversely affecting a victim's work or other conditions of employment or academic performance or study environment.
Sexual Harassment Training: Hostile Environment 08-09
A hostile environment is one in which unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature creates an intimidating, offensive or disruptive work or academic environment for some members of the campus community. Examples of this conduct may include sexually explicit talk or emails, sexually provocative images, comments on physical attributes or inappropriate touching.
Sexual Harassment Training: Risky Behaviors - Verbal 08-09
The following behaviors may contribute to creating a hostile environment if they are unwelcome:
derogatory comments of a sexual nature or based on gender
comments about clothing, personal behavior, or a person's body
sexual or gender-based jokes or teasing
requests for sexual favors
repeated requests for dates
terms of endearment, such as "honey," "dear," "sweetheart," "babe"
references to an adult as "girl" or "boy," "doll" or "hunk"
sexual innuendoes or stories
leers
grunts
wolf whistles
catcalls
hoots, sucking noises, lip-smacks and animal noises
tales of one's partner's sexual inadequacies or prowess
tales of sexual exploitation
graphic descriptions of pornography
demands such as, "Hey, baby, give me a smile"
exaggerated, mocking "courtesy"
obscene phone calls or emails
lies or rumors about a person's personal or sex life
puns such as turning work discussions to sexual topics
Sexual Harassment Training: The 'Reasonable Person' Standard 08-09
If an unwelcome behavior of a sexual nature causes someone to take offense, it will be judged whether or not it is sexual harassment as if interpreted by a "reasonable person".
This standard of a "reasonable person" has arisen from court attempts to interpret what behaviors should reasonably be considered sexual harassment. Since not everyone interprets behaviors in the same way, the courts find that, in order to be illegal, the conduct must be severely or pervasively offensive to a reasonable person in similar circumstances.
Under this standard, one-time unwelcome behavior will seldom qualify as sexual harassment unless it is sufficiently severe as judged by a reasonable person.
Student Professional Conduct Code: Prohibited Conduct 08-09
Assaulting, physically abusing, threatening, harassing, stalking, intimidating, coercing or otherwise endangering the welfare of any person (including, but not limited to, acts of discrimination, sexual harassment or assault).
Policies on Tolerance, Respect, Sensitivity, Hate, and Hate Speech (Learn More)
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Advertised Commitments to Freedom of Speech (Learn More)
Student Professional Conduct Code: Preamble 08-09
The university promotes the intellectual and personal development of its student population within an environment of freedom of inquiry.
Guidelines for Responsible Use of Computing Resources 08-09
Users may not harass, threaten or otherwise harm others by sending obscene, abusive, or injurious messages.
NJIT Campus Center and Student Activities: Advertising 08-09
What can’t I post on campus?
Materials of objectionable taste will not be approved (i.e. sexist, racist, crude, libelous, etc.).
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The speech codes and policies above were last fully checked via internet and other research means by FIRE in September 2008. According to FIRE’s research the substantive policies are current at least until this date. Directory information, including the name of the president of the college or university, may have been updated more recently. If any policy has been revised, or if you believe that we are in error, please contact us.
Below, FIRE has excerpted policies affecting freedom of association and materials related to mandatory student orientations. Please note that the materials below this line do not affect a college or university's Speech Code Rating.
Mandatory Student Orientation Materials
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Student Fee Policies Affecting Freedom of Association
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Other Policies Restricting Freedom of Association
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