Definition of Sexual Harassment

A. Any act of “quid pro quo” (“something for something”) sexual harassment, where a student, supervisor, faculty or other employee with the power or authority to grant or withhold benefits or privileges, demands sexual favors in exchange for benefits or privileges. No student or employee should so much as imply that another student or employee’s “cooperation” with sexual demands will have any effect on academic performance, career development, or any other aspect of education.
B. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as the basis for decisions or has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s performance or creating an intimidating or hostile environment.
C. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as the basis for decisions or has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s performance or creating an intimidating or hostile environment.
D. Examples of conduct that is prohibited by this policy include, but are not limited to, the following conduct:

• Explicit or implicit demands for sexual favors in return for benefits or privileges.
• Unwelcome letters, email communications, or telephone calls of a sexual nature.
• Distribution or display of materials of a sexual nature, including posters, screen savers or computer graphics, calendars, or pictures of men or women who are dressed in a suggestive manner.
• Utilizing AUHS’s facilities, time, or resources in relation to any form of entertainment, such as strippers or belly dancers, that tends to present men or women as sexual objects.
• Physical assaults of a sexual nature or coerced sexual contact.
• Unwelcome and deliberate touching, leaning over, cornering, pinching, or other untoward sexual behavior.
• Unwelcome sexually suggestive looks or gestures.
• Unwelcome pressure for sexual favors or dates.
• Unwelcome teasing, jokes, remarks, innuendos, insults, questions, or vulgar language that relates to or is based on a person’s sex. Students and staff are asked to be mindful of others around them. Comments not intended as harassment, and not perceived as such by the person to whom they are directed, may be offensive and unwelcome to another employee or student who overhears them.
• Affording favorable treatment to those who grant sexual favors, or unfavorable treatment to those who refuse to submit to or reject requests for sexual favors.

E. This policy prohibits sexual harassment of people of the opposite sex (male toward female, female toward male) or people of the same sex (male toward male, female toward female). This policy not only prohibits faculty sexual harassment of students, but it also prohibits misconduct by any member of our educational community toward a faculty member, staff member, or a fellow student.