Anti-Retaliation
No members of the NLU community shall engage in retaliation in response to the reporting of University-related misconduct or to the filing of a complaint. Any student who believes that they have been the victim of retaliation for reporting an incident or cooperating in an investigation should immediately contact the Division of Student Affairs at studentaffairs@nl.edu.
Actions are considered retaliatory if they are in response to a good faith disclosure of real or perceived University-related misconduct and the actions have a materially adverse effect on the working or academic conditions of the whistleblower or if the whistleblower, as a result of the actions, can no longer effectively carry out their NLU responsibilities.
NLU will make every reasonable effort to stop retaliation immediately, to conduct a complete and thorough investigation of alleged acts of retaliation in a timely manner, to provide remedies to victims of retaliation and to sanction the perpetrators of retaliation as appropriate.
The act of good faith disclosure of University-related misconduct shall not be used to make any decision to the whistleblower’s detriment or to subject the whistleblower to adverse conditions that create a hostile working or learning environment.
To encourage and protect whistleblowers, it is NLU’s policy that no reference to the good faith disclosure of University-related misconduct shall be made in personnel files, letters of recommendation, performance appraisals or any other permanent evaluative documents without the concurrence of the whistleblower.
Reports of any University-related misconduct that are not made in good faith are not protected under this policy. Those who make false reports in bad faith will be disciplined as appropriate through regular NLU procedures.