The college provides equal opportunity in education and
employment and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national
origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, creed,
religion, or status as a veteran of war as required by Title VI of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, Section 504
of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
the Age Discrimination Act of 1975,
RCW
49.60.030, and their implementing
regulations. Prohibited gender-based discrimination includes sexual
harassment.
(1) Harassment is defined
as a form of discrimination consisting of physical or verbal conduct that:
(a) Denigrates or shows hostility toward an
individual because of the their race, creed, color, religion, national or
ethnic origin, parental status or families with children, marital status, sex
(gender), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, genetic
information, honorably discharged veteran or military status, or the presence
of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog
guide or service animal by a person with a disability, or any other prohibited
basis; and
(b) Is sufficiently
severe or pervasive so as to substantially interfere with the individual's
employment, education or access to college programs, activities, and
opportunities.
(2)
Sexual harassment is defined, for the purposes of this policy as follows:
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests, and other unwelcome conduct of a sexual
nature where:
(a) Submission to such conduct
is made, either expressly or implicitly, a term or condition of an individual's
employment or education; or
(b)
Submission or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis
for employment or educational decisions affecting any individual; or
(c) Such unwelcome conduct is sufficiently
severe, persistent or pervasive to have the effect of substantially interfering
with any individual's academic or professional performance.
Reviser's note: The brackets and enclosed material
in the text of the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and
appear in the Register pursuant to the requirements of
RCW
34.08.040.