Gender Discrimination
Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 prohibits gender discrimination at institutions of higher education. The University prohibits gender discrimination in any of its programs or activities. Sexual harassment, sexual assault and other kinds of sexual violence, are forms of gender discrimination. This policy and its related procedures apply to complaints alleging all forms of gender discrimination (including sexual harassment, sexual assault, and sexual violence) against and by students. For the purposes of this policy, references to sexual misconduct include sexual and gender-based harassment, assault, and violence.