Image Source: UMD Office of Civil Rights & Sexual Misconduct
Prohibited Conduct*
Sexual misconduct definitions below are simplified for increased understanding. For the specific UMD policy definitions of prohibited conduct, read UMD Policy and Procedures on Sexual Harassment and Other Sexual Misconduct.
- Retaliation - Taking an adverse action against an individual because an individual has made a report, filed a complaint, testified, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing related to Prohibited Conduct.
- Stalking - Engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear or suffer substantial emotional distress.
- Sexual intimidation - Threatening behavior of a sexual nature directed at another person, such as threatening to sexually assault another person or engaging in indecent exposure..
- Sexual coercion - The use of unreasonable pressure in an effort to compel another individual to initiate or continue sexual activity against the individual’s will.
- Sexual harassment - Conduct on the basis of sex that either 1) creates a hostile environment, or 2) presents a “this for that” abuse of power dynamic of a sexual nature, or 3) involves a sexual assault.
- Sexual assault - Any sexual acts directed against another person, without the Consent of the victim, including NonConsensual Sexual Penetration, Fondling, Incest or Statutory Rape.
- Dating Violence - Violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the Complainant.
*Source: UMD Office of Civil Rights & Sexual Misconduct
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