Defining What Happened

Sexual Exploitation

Sexual exploitation is taking advantage of another person without consent for their own or for someone else’s benefit Examples include making or sharing intimate images without the person’s consent, nonconsensual viewing of another person’s sexual activity, and nonconsensual viewing of another person's intimate body parts in a location where privacy is expected.

Dating/Domestic Violence

Dating/domestic violence includes violence that is not in self-defense, committed by a person who is or has been in an intimate or sexual relationship with the victim. This encompasses physical, sexual, or emotional abuse or threats Pushing, hitting, slapping, pushing, strangling/choking are forms of violence

Dating/domestic violence can also include patterns of abusive behavior such as isolation, destroying personal property, abuse of pets, and/or degradation.

Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, visual, or physical conduct of a sexual nature that is objectively offensive and where:

Submission to or rejection of the sexual conduct is used as the basis for any decision affecting the individual’s academic status, employment, or other University benefits, services, honors, programs, or activities; or

The conduct has the purpose or effect of having a negative impact upon the individual’s work or academic performance, or of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work or educational environment

Gender-Based Harassment

Unwelcome behavior based on sexual orientation or gender that is objectively offensive and sufficiently severe, pervasive or persistent that it creates a hostile environment denying or limiting the ability of an individual to participate in or benefit from University services, activities or privileges.

Stalking

Stalking is a pattern of behavior directed at a specific person that reasonably causes them to fear for their safety or the safety of others, or to suffer substantial emotional distress. Stalking can happen in person, online, or through repeated unwelcome contact and messages, or a combination.