Policy statement: It is the policy of
Northwest state community college to provide a positive, discrimination-free
educational and working environment. We are committed to a policy of
non-discrimination on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, sexual
orientation, marital status, disability, religion, or age in admission and
access to, or treatment, or employment in our programs or activities as
required by Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
the Age Discrimination Act and their implementing regulations. Harassment,
sexual harassment, and/or sexual misconduct of students, employees, or others
working or visiting in the employment or academic setting will not be
tolerated.
(A)
To help ensure that employees and students are not
subjected to illegal harassment/bullying, and in order to create a comfortable
work and learning environment, the college strongly opposes and prohibits any
offensive physical, written, spoken, or non-verbal conduct as defined and
otherwise prohibited by state and federal law.
(B)
Sexual misconduct
in the work or academic setting will not be tolerated. The college seeks to
provide and maintain a professional learning and working environment and
considers consensual sexual relationships in which one individual has direct
responsibility for the evaluation of the other, or has responsibility for
supervising, advising, or counseling the other in the course of carrying out
his/her job responsibilities, to be unprofessional.
(C)
Offenders will be
subject to appropriate college adjudication processes and the full range of
disciplinary action provided by college policy, up to and including discharge,
dismissal, or expulsion. This policy and its procedures shall be the only
internal college forum of resolution for harassment, sexual harassment, and/or
sexual misconduct complaints.
(D)
College community
members or others who feel that they have been victims of harassment, sexual
harassment, and/or sexual misconduct in the work place or academic setting will
be provided with appropriate support from the college. Members of the college
community shall include all Northwest state community college students, members
of the board of trustees, faculty, staff, and administrators, whether full- or
part-time.
(E)
College administration will develop procedures related
to this policy.
