Student Handbook: Community Values Violations

Relevant Excerpt

Creating a Hostile Environment – Conduct through any means, including social media, that is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive that it unreasonably interferes with, limits, or deprives an individual from participating in or benefiting from the College’s educational or employment programs and/or activities. Conduct, which may include expression that rises to the level of harassment, must be deemed severe, persistent, or pervasive from both a subjective and an objective perspective.

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Gender-based quid-pro-quo harassment – Includes harassment based on a person’s actual or perceived gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or gender stereotypes.  This may include acts of aggression, intimidation, or hostility, whether verbal or non-verbal, graphic, physical, or otherwise, even if the acts do not involve conduct of a sexual nature, when submission to or rejection of such conduct is made, either explicitly or implicitly, a term or condition of a person’s employment, academic standing, or participation in any Colby programs and/or activities, or is used as the basis for Colby decisions affecting the individual.