Barnard College Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment and Related Procedures: Non-Title IX Sexual Harassment; Non-Title IX Hostile Environment
Barnard College
Relevant Excerpt
Non-Title IX Sexual Harassment
Non-Title IX Sexual harassment is a form of discrimination that includes harassment on the basis of sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or the status of being transgender. Sexual harassment includes unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature or which is directed at an individual because of that individual’s sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or the status of being transgender. It includes visual, verbal, non-verbal, or physical conduct and when:
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The conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with the individual’s academic, social, student residential, or work performance by creating a hostile environment, regardless of whether the conduct is directed toward that or any specific individual
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Non-Title IX Hostile Environment
A hostile environment occurs when the unwanted and objectionable conduct is based upon the individual’s actual or perceived membership in a protected class and limits or denies or unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work or academic experience (including student residential, campus life or co-curricular). A single or isolated incident of harassment or discrimination may create a hostile environment.
Examples of conduct that can constitute harassment include:
- Verbal or non-verbal unwelcome sexual advances, innuendos or propositions, racial or sexual epithets, derogatory slurs, offensive or denigrating jokes;
- Derogatory visual posters, cartoons or drawings, suggestive objects or pictures, graphic commentary, leering or obscene gestures;
- Threatening, intimidating or causing physical harm or other conduct that threatens or endangers the health or safety of any person on the basis of their actual or perceived membership in a protected class.