Student Code of Conduct: Harassment

Relevant Excerpt

3. Harming behavior, which includes but is not limited to: the threat of or actual physical assault or abuse, and harassment. For the purposes of the Code, bullying is considered a form of harassment.

4. Harassment is conduct by a person or persons against another person or persons based upon their legally protected class that adversely has the effect of:
a. Unreasonably interfering with a person or persons’ employment, educational benefits, academic grades or opportunities, or participation in the University programs or activities; or
b. Unreasonably interfering with a person or person’s work or academic performance; or
c. Creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working or academic environment.

Examples of harassment include, but are not limited to: the repeated use of written, oral or electronic communication, or a physical act or gesture by one or more individuals, repeatedly directed at another individual that: (i) causes physical or emotional harm or damage to property, (ii) places the target of such behavior in reasonable fear of harm to self, or of damage to property, (iii) creates a hostile environment or otherwise infringes on the rights of such individual, or (iv) substantially disrupts the education process. Harassment may also include, but not be limited to, a written, oral or electronic communication or physical act or gesture based on any actual or perceived differentiating characteristic, such as race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, socioeconomic status, academic status, physical appearance, or mental, physical, or by association with an individual or group who has or is perceived to have one or more of such characteristics.