Non-Discrimination Policy: Harassment

Relevant Excerpt

Harassment: Harassment, which is a form of discrimination, is defined as verbal or physical conduct that is directed at an individual or a group on account of the individual’s or group’s perceived or actual membership in a Protected Class. In the educational context, the following definitions apply: 

1. Harassment based on race, color, or national origin will be considered harassment when such conduct is sufficiently severe or pervasive and subjectively and objectively offensive so as to have the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s or group’s academic performance or ability to receive health care services or of creating a hostile academic or health care environment when viewed by examining a totality of the circumstances from the standpoint of a reasonable person with the same characteristics as the purported recipient of the harassing conduct.