Nondiscrimination Policy and Procedures Governing Complaints Against Students

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Discriminatory Harassment : Engaging in acts that denigrate or show hostility or aversion toward one or more actual or perceived members or associates of a Protected Class. Discriminatory Harassment may include but is not limited to: verbal abuse; epithets or slurs; negative stereotyping (including but not limited to stereotypes about how an individual looks, including skin color, physical features, or style of dress that reflects ethnic traditions; a foreign accent; a foreign name, including names commonly associated with a particular shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics; or speaking a foreign language); threatening, intimidating, or hostile acts; denigrating jokes; insulting or obscene comments or gestures; calls for genocide and/or violence; and the display or circulation of written or graphic material in any form, including but not limited to social media. Phone calls, text messages, emails, and social media usage may create or contribute to a hostile working, learning, or campus living environment or otherwise constitute Discriminatory Harassment, even if the communications occur away from campus. 

Hostile Environment : A Hostile Environment may arise when unwelcome conduct, including Discrimination or Discriminatory Harassment, unreasonably interferes with a student’s ability to participate in or benefit from an education program or activity, or creates an intimidating, threatening, demeaning, or offensive academic, campus, work, or living environment.