The Sexual Harassment Grievance Board
Statement on Sexual HarassmentThe Yale University Statement on Sexual Harassment applies to members of Yale College as well as to the larger University. Yale University Statement on Sexual Harassment Sexual harassment is an affront to human dignity and fundamentally at odds with the values of Yale University. Because the University is committed to maintaining a community for study and work that is free from sexual harassment, the University will not tolerate any member of that community sexually harassing another. Sexual harassment is antithetical to academic values and to a work environment free from the fact or appearance of coercion. It is a violation of University policy and may result in serious disciplinary action. Sexual harassment consists of nonconsensual sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature on or off campus, when: (1) submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a condition of an individual’s employment or academic standing; or (2) submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as the basis for employment decisions or for academic evaluation, grades, or advancement; or (3) such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work or academic performance or creating an intimidating or hostile academic or work environment. Sexual harassment may be found in a single episode, as well as in persistent behavior. Conduct that occurs in the process of application for admission to a program or selection for employment is covered by this policy, as well as conduct directed toward University students, faculty or staff members. 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, 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, 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 online at www.yale.edu/yalecollege/student_affairs/harassment. 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, 102 SSS, 203-432-2907. |
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