Sexual Misconduct Policy: Non-Title IX Sexual Harassment

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Non-Title IX Sexual Harassment is defined as unwelcome action, language or visual representation of a sexual nature that has the effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work or academic performance or that creates a hostile working, educational, or living environment, but that does not constitute Title IX Sexual Harassment.

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Sexual harassment also includes gender-based harassment, which may include acts of verbal, nonverbal or physical aggression or hostility based on gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexuality or sex- or gender- stereotyping, even if those acts do not involve conduct of a sexual nature.

Examples of conduct that may constitute sexual harassment include:

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Verbal conduct:

• • making or using derogatory comments, epithets, slurs or humor, not pedagogically appropriate
  • verbal abuse of a sexual nature, graphic verbal commentaries about an individual’s body, sexually degrading words used to describe an individual, suggestive or obscene letters, notes or invitations, not pedagogically appropriate
  • objectively offensive comments of a sexual nature, including persistent or pervasive sexually explicit statements, questions, jokes, or anecdotes, which a reasonable peer would find offensive and which are not pedagogically appropriate

Visual conduct:

• leering, making sexual gestures, displaying of suggestive objects or pictures, cartoons, or posters in a public space or forum, not pedagogically appropriate
• severe, persistent, or pervasive visual displays of suggestive, erotic, or degrading sexually oriented images, not pedagogically appropriate