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Print this HandbookStudent Sexual Harassment Policy
Sexual Harassment is unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature. Sexual Harassment can include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, nonverbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature. In its most extreme form it can include sexual assault. According to the Maine Office of Civil Rights, Sexual Harassment exists when any of four conditions are met:
- The conduct has either the purpose or effect of “substantially interfering” with a student’s education; OR
- The conduct creates an “intimidating, hostile or offensive” living, learning, or working environment; OR
- Submission to the conduct is made a term or condition, either implicitly or explicitly, of obtaining an education; OR
- Submission or rejection of the conduct is used as a factor in decisions affecting a student’s education or College employment.
Examples of sexual harassment include (but are not limited to): repeated and unwanted invitations to engage in sexual activity, stalking, unwanted letters, e-mail, Instant Messages, notes, gifts, or telephone calls that have explicitly sexual content, and unwanted jokes or comments about sex aimed at ridiculing or demeaning another individual.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally assisted education programs and activities. Title IX protects students in connection with the College’s academic, educational, extra-curricular, athletic, and other programs (see page 97 for more information on Title IX).
Sexual Harassment by any member of the College community is prohibited. Cases where students are alleged to have sexually harassed another person(s) will be adjudicated by the Judicial Board. Students who believe they have been sexually harassed by a non-student member of the College community, e.g., faculty, staff, alumni, outside vendor, etc., should direct their claim to the Dean of Student Affairs, the Dean for Academic Affairs, or Director of Human Resources. For more information on the College’s Freedom from Harassment Policy, please consult the Human Resources Web sites at www.bowdoin.edu/hr/handbook/02_general_policies/3728.shtml.