Student Complaint Procedures
A. The Dean's Procedure for Student Complaints (This procedure is available as appendix A on this Web site.)
The Dean's Procedure for Student Complaints may be used in any case in which a student has a complaint, including but not limited to a complaint of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, or handicap, against a member of the faculty or administration of Yale College. Teaching fellows and freshman counselors may be named in such a complaint. (A complaint of harassment on the basis of sex or sexual orientation is to be pursued as indicated in section D, "Complaints of sexual harassment".)
B. The Provost's Procedure for Student Complaints
The Provost's Procedure for Student Complaints is available in any case in which a student has a complaint, including a complaint of sexual harassment or a complaint of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, or handicap, against a faculty member who is not a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, or against an employee who is not an administrator in Yale College or who is not subject to discipline by the dean of Yale College. A copy of the complete procedure is available from the Yale College Dean's Office, 110 SSS.
C. Complaints of racial or ethnic harassment
Any student in the University who believes that he or she has been harassed on account of race or ethnic origin by any member of the Yale community may bring a complaint through the President's Procedure for Addressing Students' Complaints of Racial or Ethnic Harassment. For the purposes of this procedure, racial or ethnic harassment is considered to occur when any individual is subjected to arbitrary, capricious, or discriminatory treatment on the basis of race or ethnic origin. A student complaint of racial or ethnic harassment against another undergraduate may also be brought to the Yale College Executive Committee (see appendix B, The Disciplinary Procedures of the Yale College Executive Committee, section E, "Procedures for complaints of harassment, intimidation, coercion, or assault"); such a complaint may be forwarded to the chairman of the Executive Committee only in conjunction with the complainant's residential college master or residential college dean, a member of the Yale College Dean's Office, a human relations counselor, or a member of the President's Committee on Racial and Ethnic Harassment. Copies of the President's Procedure for Addressing Student Complaints of Racial or Ethnic Harassment are available in the Yale College Dean's Office, 110 SSS. (See appendix B, The Disciplinary Procedures of the Yale College Executive Committee, section E, "Procedures for complaints of harassment, intimidation, coercion, or assault." See also www.yale.edu/yhp/med_services/ share.html.)
D. Complaints of sexual harassment
Sexual harassment is understood to mean an attempt to coerce an unwilling person into a sexual relationship, or to subject a person to unwanted sexual attention, or to punish a refusal to comply. The Yale College Grievance Board for Student Complaints of Sexual Harassment receives complaints of sexual harassment of an undergraduate by another undergraduate, a member of the Faculty of Yale College, an administrator, an employee in Yale College, or a teaching fellow or a freshman counselor. A student may also seek informal and confidential advice from any member of the Grievance Board. A student complaint of sexual harassment against another undergraduate may be brought to the Yale College Executive Committee (see appendix B, The Disciplinary Procedures of the Yale College Executive Committee, section E, "Procedures for complaints of harassment, intimidation, coercion, or assault"); such a complaint may also be forwarded to the chairman of the Yale College Executive Committee only in conjunction with the complainant's residential college master or residential college dean, a member of the Yale College Dean's Office, or a member of the Sexual Harassment Grievance Board. Copies of the grievance procedure are available in the Yale College Dean's Office, 110 SSS.
Questions about these procedures and questions about which procedure is applicable in a given case may be addressed to the dean of Student Affairs at the Yale College Dean's Office, 110 SSS.
