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As a Catholic institution of higher learning, Providence College is committed to maintaining an environment in which all students, faculty, staff, and visitors are treated with dignity and respect as created in the image and likeness of God. Providence College does not tolerate discriminatory harassment or any associated retaliatory behavior. Persons who may have been subjected to, or have concerns or questions related to, discriminatory harassment are encouraged to come forward without fear of retaliation. If it is determined that policy has been violated, the College will take appropriate action to stop the behavior and, if necessary, impose discipline.
Discriminatory harassment is unwelcome conduct that unreasonably interferes with a person’s ability to work or learn, or live within the residential setting, because it creates an intimidating or hostile environment for individuals or groups based on their status; i.e., the conduct is accompanied by demeaning expressions concerning the race, gender, age, religion, veteran status, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, or disability of the victim(s). It can include unwelcome verbal, written, graphic, and/or physical conduct directed at one or more members of a targeted group, such as epithets, slurs, jokes, demeaning depictions or treatment, negative stereotyping, and threatened or actual physical assault or acts of violence. The higher education academic, educational, and research settings necessarily accommodate themes, topics, and material that are germane to the subject matter and that, in other settings, may not be appropriate; policies forbidding harassment do not threaten such academic freedoms.
Sexual harassment is unwelcome behavior of a sexual nature, or gender-based, that is severe or pervasive, and that creates a hostile or abusive environment such that it unreasonably interferes with a person’s ability to learn or work. This type of behavior is prohibited whether it occurs between or among peers, and may be directed to persons of the opposite or same sex as that of the harasser. Sexual harassment is sex discrimination, which is prohibited by state and federal law, including Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It is not possible to list all circumstances that might constitute sexual harassment. Examples include: attempted or actual sexual assault and sexual misconduct; rape; exploitation; stalking; domestic violence; dating violence; unwelcome expressions of a sexual nature, or the hostile use of sexually derogatory or gender-based terms, jokes, innuendo, or graffiti; intrusive sexually explicit questions or story-telling; comments about a person’s sexuality, anatomy, attire, appearance, or sexual experience; spreading sexual rumors or rating others as to sexual activity or performance; visual displays or transmission of sexually suggestive or degrading objects, images, messages, audio/video recordings, or electronic communications, unrelated to the work or learning environment.
Anti-Harassment Policy & Grievance Procedures: http://www.providence.edu/HR/formspolicies/Pages/policies.aspx
Sexual Misconduct Policy: http://www.providence.edu/STUDENT-AFFAIRS/Pages/Student-Handbook.aspx
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