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Southwestern
Community College - Policies and Procedures Manual |
| Policy
Title: |
Personal/Professional
Relationships |
4.28 |
| Responsible
Division: |
Administrative
Services |
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| Date
Approved: |
October
1998 |
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| 1. |
Introduction
The
educational mission of Southwestern Community
College is promoted by professionalism in
student-faculty relationships and in supervisor-subordinate
relationships. Professionalism is fostered
by an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect.
Taking note of the respect and trust accorded
a faculty member by a student, and a supervisor
by a subordinate employee, faculty, staff,
and administrators recognize that they are
presumed to make decisions regarding their
relationships with students and subordinate
employees which will not endanger this atmosphere
of mutual trust and respect.
Faculty,
staff, and administrators should be aware
of the possibility that a consensual sexual
relationship with a student or a subordinate
employee may be interpreted, either at the
time or at a later date, as non-consensual
and, therefore, that sexual harassment or
preferential treatment has occurred. The
power differential inherent in faculty-student
and supervisor-subordinate employee relationships
may compromise the student's or the subordinate
employee's ability to make decisions, and
thus may call into question the bona fide
consensual nature of the relationship.
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| 2. |
Statement
A
consensual sexual relationship between a
faculty member and a student or between
a supervisor and a subordinate employee
is a conflict of interest when the faculty
member or supervisor has direct evaluative
professional responsibility over the student
or the subordinate employee.
Cross
reference policy 4.26
- Conflict of Interest and policy 4.20
- Disciplinary Action, Suspension, and Dismissal.
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