Rutgers Policy 10.2.11: Code of Student Conduct- Bullying, Intimidation, and Harassment

Relevant Excerpt

Bullying, intimidation, and harassment:

1. Making any communication to another person in any manner likely to cause alarm, including through electronic or social media platforms.

2. Subjecting or threatening to subject another person or animal to striking, kicking, shoving, or offensive touching.

3. Threatening to reveal or releasing personal information or media about a person electronically or through other means of communication.

4. Engaging in any other course of alarming conduct or repeatedly committing acts with the purpose of seriously alarming another person.

In order to constitute bullying, intimidation, and/or harassment, a person’s behavior must be sufficiently severe, pervasive, or persistent as to substantially disrupt or interfere with the orderly operation of the institution or the rights of a student to participate in or benefit from the educational program.