Policy Library: Procedures, Applications, and Guidance: Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy

Relevant Excerpt

Harassment is a form of discrimination that occurs when unwelcome conduct based on Protected Status or perceived Protected Status is sufficiently severe or pervasive to unreasonably interfere with an individual’s or
group of identifiable individuals’ educational environment, employment environment, and/or participation in a University program or activity, thereby creating an environment that a reasonable person in similar circumstances and with similar identities would find hostile, intimidating, or abusive. This is identified as “hostile environment” harassment.

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General definition: Sexual and/or gender-based harassment is a form of discrimination and harassment, as defined above, and includes unwelcome conduct based on sex, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, that meets
any of the following criteria:

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The unwelcome conduct is sufficiently severe or pervasive to unreasonably interfere with an individual’s or group of identifiable individuals’ employment environment, thereby creating an environment that a reasonable person in
similar circumstances and with similar identities would find hostile, intimidating, or abusive. This is identified as “hostile environment sexual/gender-based harassment.”