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 College Senate Meeting: May 8, 2000
Agenda Item: 5
Description: Proposed Modifications to the Guidelines on Consensual, Intimate Relations between College Personnel and Students

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Definitions

  1. College personnel include all faculty, staff, administrators, teaching assistants, and resident directors [other college employees (including students)] who have any authority over students.
  2. An intimate consensual relationship is any romantic and/or sexual bond that could be construed as affecting professional judgment. This relationship is normally distinct from those defined under the guidelines regarding sexual harassment.

Noncompliance with Professional Standards as Prescribed by the AAUP

Any credible allegation that any college personnel have failed to avoid or to terminate a position of authority while having had or currently having any intimate consensual relationship with a student obligates the individual's supervisor (or an appropriate designee) to conduct a prompt, thorough, balanced and scrupulously fair investigation [inquiry] to determine whether the allegation is true. For such an investigation [inquiry] to be pursued, the allegation must not be anonymous.

During the investigation [inquiry], the supervisor (or an appropriate designee) must meet separately with the student and also with the staff member.

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