SAM 01.D.08 – Sexual Misconduct Policy: UH System Sexual Misconduct

Relevant Excerpt

Sexual Harassment: Broadly speaking, Sexual Harassment is subjecting an individual on the basis of her or his membership in a Protected Class to unlawful severe, pervasive, or persistent treatment that constitutes:

Humiliating, abusive, or threatening conduct or behavior that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual or group;
An intimidating, hostile or abusive learning or living environment, or an environment that alters the conditions of learning or living; or
An unreasonable interference with an individual’s academic performance.
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Examples that could satisfy this legal standard include, but are not limited to: epithets or slurs, negative stereotyping, threatening, intimidating or hostile acts, denigrating jokes and display or circulation (including through e-mail) of written or graphic material in the learning, living, or working environment.