Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct: Building a Climate of Safety and Respect at Yale

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SHARE: Information, Advocacy, and Support Yale Police Department sharecenter.yale.edu your.yale.edu/community/public-safety/yale-police- 203.432.2000 (24/7 availability) department Professional, expert help for people who have experienced 203.432.4400 (24/7 availability) sexual misconduct, as well as their friends and family Sworn police officers; Sensitive Crimes & Support Coordinator Coordinates acccess to medical treatment, evidence Conducts criminal investigations collection, and legal consultations Provides services to victims, such as safety planning and Assists with contacting police and/or initiating a complaint assistance in obtaining a protective order process Will consult without requiring a police report to be filed Will only share information if you wish, except in situations of imminent harm Title IX Coordinators provost.yale.edu/title-ix/coordinators University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct 203.432.6854 (9 AM – 5 PM weekdays) uwc.yale.edu See page 33 for Title IX Coordinators’ contact information 203.432.4449 (9 AM – 5 PM weekdays) Title IX Coordinators are available to students in Yale College, Yale’s internal disciplinary committee for handling formal the Graduate School, each professional school, and to all faculty complaints of sexual misconduct and staff Members include faculty, senior staff, and graduate and Responsible for policies, programs, and coordination of professional students; supported by impartial investigators resources Assists individuals in learning more about the formal Track and respond to complaints complaint process and where to go for support and guidance Coordinate accommodations and other supportive measures Inform individuals of disciplinary and criminal complaint options Will take action in situations of immediate or ongoing risk to an For the most up to date information visit smr.yale.edu individual or to the safety of the community

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This guide provides an overview of the University’s TABLE OF CONTENTS policies and the broad range of resources available Yale Sexual Misconduct Policies to prevent and respond to sexual misconduct at Yale. and Related Definitions 2 For the most up-to-date and detailed information, please see the Sexual Misconduct Response and Primary Resources 7 Prevention website (smr.yale.edu). Prevention 11 Response Know Your Options 15 The most important thing that you need Seeking Accommodations, to know is: Remedies, and Protective Measures 16 Pursuing a Complaint 17 You should expect to feel safe and Understanding Confidentiality 19 respected at all times at Yale. If for any Appendix A: Title IX Sexual Misconduct 22 reason you do not, Yale will provide Appendix B: Related Federal resources to support you and help you and State Laws and Definitions 24 take action. Additional Resources 32 University Title IX Coordinators 33

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Yale University is committed to maintaining and Definition of Sexual Misconduct strengthening educational, working, and living Sexual misconduct incorporates a range of behaviors environments founded on mutual respect in which including sexual assault, sexual harassment, intimate students, faculty, and staff are connected by strong partner violence, stalking, voyeurism, and any other bonds of intellectual dependence and trust. Sexual conduct of a sexual nature that is nonconsensual or has misconduct is antithetical to the standards and ideals the purpose or effect of threatening, intimidating, or of our community. Therefore, Yale University prohibits coercing a person. all forms of sexual misconduct. Yale aims to eradicate sexual misconduct through education, training, clear Sexual misconduct often includes nonconsensual sexual definitions and policies, and serious consequences for contact, but this is not a necessary component. For ex- policy violations. The University Title IX Coordinator ample, threatening speech that is sufficiently severe or has responsibility for ensuring compliance with Yale’s pervasive to constitute sexual harassment is sexual mis- policies regarding sexual misconduct. The University- conduct. Making photographs, video, or other visual or Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct (UWC) and the auditory recordings of a sexual nature of another person University and Deputy Title IX Coordinators address without their consent constitutes sexual misconduct, allegations of sexual misconduct. even if the activity documented was consensual. Simi- larly, sharing such recordings or other sexually harassing These policies apply to all members of the Yale electronic communications without consent is a form of community as well as to conduct by third parties (i.e., sexual misconduct. individuals who are not students, faculty, or staff, including but not limited to guests and consultants) NOTE: Federal regulations for the implementa- directed toward University students, faculty, or staff tion of Title IX of the Education Amendments members. Conduct that occurs in the process of of 1972 provide detailed rules for addressing formal complaints about some types of sexual application for admission to a program or selection for misconduct. Sexual misconduct covered by these employment is covered by these policies. These policies regulations is referred to in this booklet as “Title also apply to conduct that occurs in Yale-related off- IX Sexual Misconduct” (see Appendix A). Yale’s campus activities. broader definitions of sexual misconduct include Many forms of sexual misconduct are prohibited Title IX Sexual Misconduct. For questions about by federal law, including Title IX of the education Title IX Sexual Misconduct or the rules applicable to formal complaints, please contact a Title IX amendments of 1972, and by Connecticut statutes, and Coordinator or the UWC. could result in criminal prosecution or civil liability.

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Violations of Yale’s Policy on Teacher-Student Consen- activity throughout a sexual encounter. Consent cannot sual Relations and its Policy on Relationships between be inferred merely from the absence of a “no.” A clear Staff Members are also forms of sexual misconduct. “yes,” verbal or otherwise, is necessary. Consent to some Yale’s policies and definitions apply to all members of sexual acts does not constitute consent to others, nor the Yale community, regardless of their sex or gender. does past consent to a given act constitute present or future consent. Consent must be ongoing throughout a Definition of Sexual Harassment sexual encounter and can be revoked by any participant Sexual harassment consists of unwelcome sexual at any time. advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or Consent cannot be obtained by threat, coercion, or physical conduct of a sexual nature on or off campus, force. Agreement under such circumstances does when: (1) submission to such conduct is made either not constitute consent. Consent cannot be obtained explicitly or implicitly a condition of an individual’s from someone who is asleep or otherwise mentally or employment or academic standing; or (2) submission to physically incapacitated due to alcohol, drugs, or some or rejection of such conduct is used as the basis for em- other condition. A person is mentally or physically ployment decisions or for academic evaluation, grades, incapacitated when that person lacks the ability to or advancement; or (3) such conduct has the purpose or make or act on considered decisions to engage in effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s sexual activity. Engaging in sexual activity with a work or academic performance or creating an intimi- person whom you know—or reasonably should know— dating or hostile academic or work environment. Sexual to be incapacitated constitutes sexual misconduct. harassment may be found in a single episode, as well as in persistent behavior. Definition of Intimate Partner Violence Definition of Sexual Assault Intimate partner violence (IPV) occurs when a current or former intimate partner uses or threatens physical or Sexual assault is any kind of nonconsensual sexual contact, including rape, groping, or any other form of nonconsensual sexual touching. Intimate Partner Violence may be accompanied by a range of abusive/controlling behaviors by a current Definition of Sexual Consent or former intimate partner, such as verbal, emotion- al, or financial abuse. If you have experienced any Under Yale’s policies, sexual activity requires affirmative of these behaviors, the SHARE Center and Title IX consent, which is defined as positive, unambiguous, Coordinators are available to assist you. and voluntary agreement to engage in specific sexual

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Guidance Regarding Sexual Consent individual or group and that is likely to cause alarm, fear, or substantial emotional distress. Stalking Consent can be accurately gauged only through may take many forms, including following, lying in direct communication about the decision to wait, monitoring, and pursuing contact. Stalking engage in sexual activity. Presumptions based may occur in person or through a medium of upon contextual factors (such as clothing, alcohol communication, such as letters, email, text messages, consumption, or dancing) are unwarranted, and or phone calls. In some circumstances, two instances should not be considered as evidence for consent. of such behavior may be sufficient to constitute Although consent does not need to be verbal, stalking. verbal communication is the most reliable form of asking for and gauging consent. Talking with sex- See “Appendix B: Additional Federal and State Laws and Definitions” at the end of this guide for definitions of these ual partners about desires and limits may seem offenses under state and federal law. awkward, but it serves as the basis for positive sexual experiences shaped by mutual willingness Yale Policy on Teacher-Student Consensual and respect. Relations When alcohol or other drugs are involved, The integrity of the teacher-student relationship is the incapacitation is a state beyond drunkenness or foundation of the University’s educational mission. intoxication. An inability to remember events is This relationship vests considerable trust in the teacher, not on its own sufficient to demonstrate incapac- who, in turn, bears authority and accountability itation. A person may be able to make and act on as a mentor, educator, and evaluator. The unequal a considered decision to engage in sexual activity institutional power inherent in this relationship but not remember having done so. heightens the vulnerability of the student and the potential for coercion. The pedagogical relationship sexual violence. IPV also may take the form of a between teacher and student must be protected from pattern of behavior that seeks to establish power and infiuences or activities that can interfere with learning control by causing fear of physical or sexual violence. and personal development. Stalking may also constitute IPV. Whenever a teacher is or in the future might Definition of Stalking reasonably become responsible for teaching, advising, or directly supervising a student, a sexual or romantic Stalking is repeated or obsessive unwanted attention relationship between them is inappropriate and must on the basis of sex that is directed toward an

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be avoided. In addition to creating the potential for Title IX Coordinator, with the Title IX Coordinator of coercion, any such relationship jeopardizes the integrity their school, or with the University-Wide Committee on of the educational process by creating a confiict of Sexual Misconduct. interest and may impair the learning environment for Violations of the above policies by a teacher will other students. Finally, such situations may expose the normally lead to disciplinary action. For purposes of University and the teacher to liability for violation of this policy,“direct supervision” includes the following laws against sexual harassment and sex discrimination. activities (on or off campus): course teaching, Therefore, teachers must avoid sexual or romantic examining, grading, advising for a formal project such relationships with students over whom they have or as a thesis or research, supervising required research might reasonably expect to have direct pedagogical or or other academic activities, serving in such a capacity supervisory responsibilities, regardless of whether the as Director of Undergraduate or Graduate Studies, relationship is consensual. Conversely, teachers must and recommending in an institutional capacity for not directly supervise any student with whom they admissions, employment, fellowships, or awards. have a sexual or romantic relationship. “Teachers” includes, but is not limited to, all ladder Undergraduate students are particularly vulnerable and instructional faculty of the University.“Teachers” to the unequal institutional power inherent in the also includes graduate and professional students and teacher-student relationship and the potential for postdoctoral fellows and associates only when they coercion, because of their age and relative lack of are serving as part-time acting instructors, teaching maturity. Therefore, no teacher shall have a sexual or fellows or in similar institutional roles, with respect to romantic relationship with any undergraduate student, the students they are currently teaching or supervising. regardless of whether the teacher currently exercises “Students” refers to those enrolled in any and all or expects to have any pedagogical or supervisory educational and training programs of the University. responsibilities over that student. Additionally, this policy applies to members of the Yale community who are not teachers as defined above, but Teachers or students with questions about this policy have authority over or mentoring relationships with are advised to consult with the University Title IX students, including athletic coaches, supervisors of Coordinator, the Title IX Coordinator of their school, the student employees, advisors and directors of student department chair, the appropriate dean, the Provost, organizations, Residential College Fellows, as well as or one of their designees. Students or other members others who advise, mentor, or evaluate students. of the community may lodge a complaint regarding an alleged violation of this policy with the University

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Yale Policy on Relationships between Yale Policy on Retaliation Staff Members Yale University strictly forbids retaliation against Staff are expected to avoid romantic or sexual individuals who report sexual misconduct, file relationships with employees and trainees for complaints of sexual misconduct, cooperate in whom they have or might reasonably expect to have the investigation of sexual misconduct, or those supervisory or reporting responsibilities. who adjudicate formal complaints of sexual misconduct. This prohibition against retaliation Under no circumstances can a supervisor directly protects complainants, respondents, witnesses, supervise or evaluate any employee or trainee with and other persons who have provided or may whom they have or have had a romantic or sexual provide information to a Title IX Coordinator or the relationship. If such a relationship exists or develops, University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct the supervisor and employee must promptly disclose (UWC). it to the Department Head or the Human Resources Generalist. Arrangements, which may include If you believe you have experienced retaliation, you reassignment or relocation, will be made to address should consult with a Title IX Coordinator or the any issue of confiict of interest. Any decision affecting UWC Secretary. any aspect of employment (for example, transfer, promotion, salary, termination) must be made by disinterested and qualified supervisory personnel. Violations of this policy will normally lead to disciplinary action, up to and including termination. Individuals with questions about this policy or staff Yale does not discriminate in admissions, concerned about a romantic or sexual relationship in educational programs, or employment against violation of this policy are encouraged to speak with any individual on account of that individual’s their supervisor, Human Resources Generalist, or any sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or national or ethnic origin; Title IX Coordinator. nor does Yale discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. See See Staff Workplace Policies at full text at: yale.edu/nondiscrimination. your.yale.edu/work-yale/staff-workplace-policies

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The SHARE Center health or medical care (including accompaniment Information, Advocacy, and Support to the emergency room for evidence collection 55 Lock Street, Lower Level when requested), help with initiating complaint or Office hours: 9 AM – 5 PM weekdays legal processes (including obtaining a protective 203.432.2000 (24/7 availability) order), and assistance with contacting police. sharecenter.yale.edu When requested, its staff works closely with the Title IX Coordinators, the University-Wide SHARE, the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response Committee on Sexual Misconduct, the Yale and Education Center, offers information, advocacy Police Department, and other on-campus or and support to all members of the Yale community off-campus resources to best address the needs who are dealing with sexual misconduct of any kind. of community members. If you wish to make use SHARE assists individuals who are dealing with recent of SHARE’s services, you can call 203.432.2000 at or past experiences or who are supporting their friends, any time for a phone consultation or to set up an family or loved ones. Additionally, they have resources appointment. Some legal and medical options are for individuals who may have concerns about their time-sensitive, so if you have been assaulted, we own behavior. SHARE is available any time of the day encourage you to call SHARE as soon as possible. or night via a direct hotline, as well as for drop-ins Counselors can talk with you over the phone or on weekdays during regular business hours. SHARE meet you in person at Yale Health or the Yale-New services are confidential and can be anonymous when Haven Hospital Emergency Room. desired. SHARE can also facilitate access to mental

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Title IX Coordinators Title IX 1 Coordinators are senior administrators and 203.432.6854 (9 AM – 5 PM weekdays) faculty members throughout the university who are provost.yale.edu/title-ix available to consult with members of the community about their concerns and questions related to sex- or See the inside back cover of this guide for additional gender-based discrimination or sexual misconduct. contact information. This includes discrimination or harassment on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, gender

From left to right: Dr. Stephanie Spangler (Vice Provost for Health Affairs and Academic Integrity; University Title IX Coordinator), Cynthia Smith (Associate Provost for Health Affairs and Academic Integrity), Jason Killheffer (Assistant Provost for Academic Integrity; Senior Deputy Title IX Coordinator), Valarie Stanley (Director, Office of Institutional Equity and Access; Senior Deputy Title IX Coordinator), Ksenia Sidorenko (Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Yale College), Maria Gutiérrez (Title IX Program Manager), and Kim Zarra (Senior Assistant). 8 smr.yale.edu

expression, and non-conformance with gender work locations, arrange for extra time to complete stereotypes. Coordinators can review options, academic or work assignments, provide security identify supportive measures, and connect escorts, or arrange for counseling as appropriate. individuals with other campus resources, such as the Coordinators can also implement an agreement SHARE Center or the Yale Police. requiring the complainant and respondent to refrain from direct contact. Respondents may also agree to The University Title IX Coordinator, Dr. Stephanie other steps, such as having their own housing, work, Spangler, has campus-wide responsibility for all or classroom locations changed, and avoiding specific policies, processes, and programs that address and areas of campus. As well as these individually- prevent discrimination on the basis of sex or gender, focused measures, other steps may be taken to including sexual misconduct. In addition to the address climate concerns such as sexual harassment University Title IX Coordinator, Yale has designated training for departments or groups. Deputy Title IX Coordinators across the University. You may contact any Coordinator at any time by What else do Coordinators do? email or phone (see contact information on page 33). In addition to responding to and addressing specific Some community members prefer to contact the complaints, Coordinators track and monitor incidents Title IX Coordinator that works directly with their to identify patterns or systemic issues, coordinate school; others prefer to contact a Coordinator from the available resources and support processes, another area of campus. deliver prevention and educational programming to the University community, and conduct periodic What steps can a Coordinator take to address assessments of the campus climate and, when concerns? indicated, focused climate assessments of specific Title IX Coordinators can put various measures in departments or units. place to address complainants’ safety concerns, mitigate the impact of sexual misconduct and 1Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (see Appendix sex- or gender-based discrimination, and address a B) protects people from discrimination on the basis of sex or potentially hostile climate. Many of these steps can gender in educational programs and activities at institutions be taken even if someone does not choose to pursue that receive federal funding. Discrimination on the basis of a formal complaint. For example, Coordinators sex or gender includes sexual harassment, sexual assault, and may be able to change on-campus housing or other forms of sexual misconduct.

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University-Wide Committee on Sexual Yale Police Department Misconduct (UWC) 101 Ashmun Street 203.432.4449 (9 AM – 5 PM weekdays) 203.432.4400 (24/7 availability) uwc.yale.edu your.yale.edu/community/public-safety/yale- police-department The University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct (UWC) is an internal disciplinary board The Yale Police Department (YPD) operates 24/7 available to students, faculty, and staff across the and is comprised of highly-trained, sworn police University for complaints of sexual misconduct, as officers, including a Sensitive Crimes & Support described in the committee’s procedures. The UWC Coordinator. The YPD has the capacity to perform is an accessible, representative, and trained body full criminal investigations. In addition, the YPD can established to fairly and expeditiously address provide information on available victims’ assistance formal complaints of sexual misconduct. UWC staff services, safety planning, and other related issues. members can answer inquiries about procedures and The YPD works closely with the New Haven Police the University’s sexual misconduct policy. In cases Department, the New Haven State’s Attorney, the where formal resolution is sought, investigations are SHARE Center, the University’s Title IX Coordinators, conducted by professional, impartial investigators. and various other departments within the University.

UWC from left to right: Judith Krauss (Chair), Aley Menon (Secretary), and Anita Sharif-Hyder (Associate Secretary) 10 PREVENTION smr.yale.edu

Preventing sexual misconduct is a community- wide effort. Everyone has a role to play in making our campus safer and more respectful.

General Strategies • Trust your instincts. If there are elements of an environment that feel uncomfortable, trust your instincts and seek help. Call on friends, colleagues, and other allies, including SHARE, Title IX Coordinators, supervisors, deans, and professors, to support you. • Look out for people around you. Simply stepping in to act when you see a troubling situation can make a big difference. If you see something that causes you concern—even if you’re not sure— check in and seek help, if necessary. SHARE, Title IX Coordinators, and/or the Yale Police can always guide you on how to help. • Respond to even minor issues. Serious situations can often be averted by responding at the first sign of trouble. SHARE, Title IX Coordinators, and the Yale Police are always available to discuss any incident, no matter how big or small. If you are in a position of authority, you are responsible for establishing and maintaining a respectful environment. If you are a supervisor, you must report any sexual misconduct that comes to Would you like to get involved in your attention to a Title IX Coordinator. For more Yale’s prevention efforts? information about responding, read Bystander Intervention on page 13. Please visit smr.yale.edu/get-involved

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• Take sexual pressure seriously. Many sexual colleagues, and think carefully about how assaults begin with low-level sexual pressure. words or actions that may seem insignificant Though sexual pressure and disregard don’t to you could hurt someone else. Set high always lead to assault, you deserve to have standards for your community and model the your boundaries respected, not pushed. behavior you expect. • Communicate with your sexual and romantic • Be safe. In an emergency, you should always partners. Open discussion of desires and call 911. If you need to make a longer-term plan limits is a critical part of building a positive for your safety, SHARE, Title IX Coordinators, sexual culture. Take any signs of reluctance, and the Yale Police can help. refusal, or inability to consent including nonverbal signs, very seriously. If the signs are Bystander Intervention ambiguous, be sure to stop and check in or ask Sexual violence is often enabled by cultural questions. In general, it’s easy to tell if someone patterns of disrespect and pressure—patterns that is enthusiastic about an encounter or not. let aggression pass unchecked. However, you can • Be alert to patterns, not just isolated actions. interrupt these patterns. Interventions don’t have Sometimes, sexual misconduct can take the to be large or dramatic. Small interventions—asking form of patterns of behaviors that might not a friend to leave a party with you, redirecting a be concerning in isolation, but that together conversation with a joke, or acting as a third constitute a problem. Take repeated disrespect, wheel—are very effective. intimidation, and threats seriously, even if they seem small alone. Stalking can sometimes Steps to Action: seem merely annoying or even fiattering, but • Pay attention: be alert to things that make its intrusive nature must be taken seriously, you uncomfortable. In particular, look out for whether it is online or in person. In cases of signs of sexual pressure, unwanted attention, intimate partner violence (IPV), be on the disrespect, extreme drunkenness, or signs of lookout for patterns of isolation, control, and fear and confusion. Keep an eye on anything intimidation. worrying; don’t ignore “little” things. • Be a role model. A community free from • Decide: should someone intervene? Does sexual misconduct requires effort from all of the situation seem to be making someone us. Engage respectfully with your peers and uncomfortable? Does someone need help? If

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you can, check in with whomever you’re aiming • Name the problem: Acknowledging that to help—but if you can’t, trust your instincts. there are troubling dynamics at play can go a long way. • Make a plan: fit your intervention to the situation. Determine who is in the best • Check in again later: Some situations may position to act. You can call on friends, allies, require ongoing intervention. Consider hosts, and authority figures, or you can do checking in later with the person you helped something yourself. When’s the best moment? to see how they are doing. Now? Later? Be creative and strategic. • Above all — be safe and remember that • Make it happen: follow your plan, and be ready small interventions can be effective. Act to get help if you need it. Look for allies and early, act often, but if you think you are in be alert to others trying to help. Start with the danger, step back and get help. smallest possible intervention. Act even if you feel awkward or nervous.

Techniques to Try: • De-escalate: Change the topic. Don’t laugh at inappropriate jokes. Shift the focus away from the problem. • Offer help: Signal your concern and willingness to act. It’s okay if you are turned down at first or altogether: simply offering to help can change the dynamics. Don’t Forget to Get Support for Yourself • Slow things down: If a situation seems troubling, give people time to extricate Intervening in a situation can bring up chal- themselves, if that’s what they want. lenging emotions or evoke past experiences for you. Therefore, it may be helpful to speak with • Disrupt the situation: Intrude. Make a joke. friends, family, or loved ones, or to consult with Change the topic. Spill something. Be a third a SHARE Counselor about your experience. wheel.

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Communication and Consent Educators (CCEs) on strategies for preventing patterns of negative behavior. CCE teams often collaborate with other Yale College student groups to change the campus environment, yale.edu/cce reimagining traditional events and practices to [email protected], facebook.com/yalecces maximize opportunities for our ideals to fiourish. @yalecces CCEs run workshops for all first-years and The CCEs are a diverse group of undergraduates sophomores on consent and bystander intervention. who work together to foster a more positive sexual They also offer a variety of workshops for juniors and and social climate on the Yale College campus. The seniors as well as community-building workshops CCEs aim to end sexual violence by transforming our for student groups that focus on strengthening community into one where respect, mutuality, and core values. Most of their work, though, takes place mindfulness are the norm. A safe campus is critically within their own communities and residential important, but the CCEs aim higher: for Yale to be a colleges. The CCEs are always happy to collaborate place where everyone can thrive. with student groups, so get in touch with your Through workshops, trainings, and conversations, college CCEs if you have ideas. the CCEs help students identify troubling dynamics, develop skills for effective interventions, and work

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Know Your Options • Seek medical treatment. If you have experienced physical or sexual violence, it’s important to get Sexual assault, harassment, and other forms of sexual care as soon as possible. Even if you feel okay, you misconduct can have profound impacts on personal, may be injured or at risk of contracting a sexually professional, and academic life. If you have experienced transmitted infection or becoming pregnant. If you sexual misconduct of any kind, the University urges were sexually assaulted within the past 120 hours, you to take action to seek the help and support that you should strongly consider having physical you need, which may include making a report and forensic evidence collected at the time of your pursuing disciplinary and criminal sanctions. The medical examination. SHARE will coordinate with decision of how to proceed is left up to you, unless the hospital emergency room to make arrange- the situation involves an immediate or ongoing risk ments and guide you through this process. to your safety or the safety of the community. In these rare instances, a Title IX Coordinator will discuss • Collect and preserve evidence. Prompt collection these safety concerns with you and the actions the of physical forensic evidence can be helpful. University intends to take to address them. Other pieces of evidence are also important to save. Voicemails, emails, and text messages, for Individual experiences of sexual misconduct vary example, can be important if you decide to pursue widely, as do people’s needs. At Yale, you have choices a disciplinary or criminal complaint. Even if you about what to do and when – and people who can don’t initially plan to pursue a complaint, it is explain the options, answer your questions, and good to keep those options open by retaining support you along the way. evidence. SHARE can help you work with the Steps you should consider taking: Title IX Coordinators and/or the police to identify evidence collection processes if this is something • Get support. You should not have to cope with you choose to do. this experience alone. There are many places • Report the incident. If you have experienced (or to turn, but SHARE offers particular expertise. learned about) sexual misconduct involving a The SHARE staff can provide information and member of the Yale community, you may report advocacy as well as support, all with strict to any Title IX Coordinator, the UWC, or the Yale confidentiality. SHARE can also help you take any Police (see the Resources section for contact of the steps below. You may contact SHARE 24/7 information). By reporting the incident, you at 203.432.2000. alert the University and enable administrators to respond appropriately both to your case and

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to broader patterns of concerning behavior. Seeking Accommodations and Supportive Reporting also allows you to discuss your options Measures and gives you immediate access to various If you have experienced sexual misconduct, there accommodations. Making a report does not are steps the University can take to address the ordinarily commit you to pursuing a complaint. impacts from the incident, decrease the chance of • Pursue a complaint. Individuals come to the com- recurrence, and provide a safe educational and work plaint process with different needs and goals, so environment. Many steps can be taken regardless of it is important that there is a range of options whether you choose to pursue a formal complaint. for pursuing a complaint. Title IX Coordinators, Title IX Coordinators are available to coordinate the UWC, and the YPD work hard, along with accommodations and other supportive measures. SHARE, to streamline and coordinate complaint As always, your privacy will be safeguarded as these processes, so it does not matter where you begin. arrangements are made. The steps taken will be The options are not mutually exclusive; you can determined on a case-by-case basis, in response to pursue any or all of them as you wish. You will al- your needs, the nature of the incident, and other ways be part of the decision-making process and factors, including the need to ensure individual and the choices regarding whether or how to proceed community safety. Measures can include no contact are generally up to you (except in the rare event orders, residential reassignments, and changes to of an immediate or ongoing risk to your safety or employment or academic assignments. the safety of the community). Title IX Coordinators usually meet with people in See pages 17-18 for more details on reporting and complaint processes. These details are also available at person, but conversations may also be held by phone, smr.yale.edu. email, or Zoom depending on individual preference. Initially, Coordinators focus on complainants’ • Continue to get support. Support can come immediate concerns, especially safety, emotional well- in many forms, be it from friends, family, or being, and professional or academic requirements. professionals. You may reach out at any time to Complainants do not need to describe their one of Yale’s mental health counselors, SHARE experiences in detail in order to explore supportive counselors, chaplains, or Title IX Coordinators. measures; they may choose to do so, but it is not necessary. Often, there are steps that can be taken— connecting someone with SHARE, shifting a class assignment, establishing a no-contact agreement, etc.— that can have immediate positive impact.

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Coordinators describe the full range of options and and appropriate disciplinary sanctions. In the absence resources available for pursuing formal and criminal of an immediate or ongoing risk to individual or complaints, so that complainants can make a well- community safety, you may decide which among the informed decision about next steps. Coordinators available options you wish to pursue. These options are work closely with the SHARE Center, the University- not mutually exclusive. Whichever path(s) you choose, Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct (UWC), you may have an advisor of your choice present at Human Resources, and the Yale Police Department, every stage. Respondents may also have an advisor of and can coordinate efforts to respond to complainants’ their choice. All proceedings are designed to be fair, needs and decisions. prompt, and impartial.

• Title IX Coordinators The names and contact information for all the Title IX Coordinators are listed on page 33 of this booklet and Title IX Coordinators are available for community online at provost.yale.edu/title-ix/coordinators. Anyone members to bring their concerns and questions— can call or email any coordinator with concerns—no no matter how big or small—about a specific matter how big or small—about a specific incident incident or the campus sexual climate in general. or the campus sexual climate in general. Sometimes, Title IX Coordinators can also assist in resolving information comes to Coordinators from friends, complaints. They do not conduct formal hearings; colleagues, or witnesses. In those cases, Coordinators they will however, work with the complainant reach out to potential complainants, who can choose and the respondent to achieve the resolution of whether they want to engage in further discussion a complaint. Title IX Coordinators may also help with the Coordinator. Coordinators are also able to connect the complainant or the respondent, when suggest resources to support and advise respondents. requested, to the SHARE Center, the University- Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, or the Yale Pursuing a Complaint Police. Complaints may be pursued with the Title IX You can contact any Coordinator at any time by Coordinators, the University-Wide Committee on email or phone. You can find contact information Sexual Misconduct, and the Yale Police–who receive for all of the University’s Title IX Coordinators on annual and ongoing training on relevant laws, page 33 of this booklet or online at regulations, and disciplinary codes; the dynamics and provost.yale.edu/title-ix/coordinators. patterns of sexual misconduct; the importance of confidentiality, fair process, and impartiality; safety considerations when determining interim measures;

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• University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct As the disciplinary board for addressing formal Concerns about Disciplinary Consequences complaints of sexual misconduct, the University- for Alcohol, Drug Use, or Violations of the Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct uses an Yale Community Compact impartial investigator to gather evidence and The University recognizes that students who have then holds a hearing to determine whether a been using alcohol and/or drugs may be hesitant violation of University policy has occurred, based to report incidents of sexual misconduct due to on the “preponderance of the evidence” standard the fear of potential consequences for their own conduct. Therefore, any student who reports in (i.e., if it is more likely than not that such a good faith that they witnessed or were the victim violation occurred). Advisers may accompany the of sexual misconduct will not face disciplinary complainant and respondent for support at every charges for being under the infiuence of alcohol stage. Normally, the formal complaint process or prohibited substances at the time of the takes about 100 days. The UWC may extend the incident. process for good cause such as illness, holidays, the Any student who reports in good faith that they absence of parties or witnesses from campus, a witnessed or were the victim of sexual miscon- concurrent criminal investigation, the complexity duct will not face disciplinary charges for failing of the allegations, or the competing demands of to abide by the COVID-19 health and safety re- other cases. UWC sanctions can include mandated quirements of the Yale Community Compact at training, reprimand, probation, suspension, and the time of the incident. This provision does not termination/expulsion. prevent the University from taking appropriate The full UWC procedures are available online at non-disciplinary actions (e.g., contact tracing) to protect the health and safety of the community. uwc.yale.edu.

• Yale Police Department accordingly. If an incident occurs outside the YPD’s The Yale Police Department has sworn police jurisdiction, the YPD can assist in contacting the officers with full powers of law enforcement and appropriate alternative law enforcement agency. arrest who receive advanced training in crimes Criminal proceedings use “beyond a reasonable of interpersonal violence. They can assist in doubt” as the standard of evidence. determining whether the conduct experienced was criminal in nature and launch an investigation

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Understanding Confidentiality resources, review the complaint options (formal, informal, criminal) available for further action, and Privacy concerns are often at the forefront when help facilitate those actions at your request. Many someone has experienced sexual misconduct. It is actions and accommodations can be taken or made useful to know the confidentiality that individuals while protecting your identity. Some accommodations can expect from each of the University resources. may require the Title IX Coordinator to work with other University officials are trained in the importance of University personnel (e.g., deans, Human Resources, confidentiality and the protocols for maintaining that housing staff), but they will only be pursued with your confidentiality. permission. Information you share with SHARE counselors, You may ask that a complaint be pursued without healthcare providers, and chaplains revealing your name or other identifying details. Your When consulted in their professional capacities, request will be accommodated to the extent possible, SHARE counselors, healthcare providers (including but an anonymous complaint on its own cannot be mental health practitioners), and chaplains will not the basis for disciplinary action. In situations where reveal any information you share without your explicit a confidentiality request limits an investigation or permission except in rare circumstances where your or prevents the University from taking disciplinary another person’s health and safety is at imminent risk. action, the University will take other reasonable steps to minimize the effects of the reported misconduct Information you share with the Title IX Coordinators and to prevent its recurrence. In the rare event of an immediate or ongoing risk, the University may need to Title IX Coordinators will not share identifying take additional action to protect your safety and the information with anyone beyond the Title IX office safety of others. without your permission, except in the rare event of an immediate or ongoing risk to your safety or Information you share with the University-Wide community safety. In cases of sexual assault or other Committee on Sexual Misconduct (UWC) criminal conduct, Title IX Coordinators will share nonidentifying details about the incident with the Yale UWC members, investigators and appellate decision Police Department for statistical purposes (as required makers observe strict confidentiality with respect to by the federal Clery Act), and will advise you about the all information they receive about a case. The UWC will resources and assistance that the police can provide. provide a brief summary of each formal complaint to the Title IX office, including the findings made and any Title IX Coordinators will work with you to address your sanctions, if any, or other actions required by the UWC. immediate concerns, connect you with appropriate

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Information you share with the Yale Police Consent Educators (CCEs), Peer Liaisons, and First- Department (YPD) Year Counselors. When a Title IX Coordinator receives information about an incident of sexual misconduct, The Yale Police Department offers confidential they may reach out to you to assess the situation and consultations regarding possible criminal to offer you options and accommodations. investigations. Ordinarily, the decision about whether to press criminal charges is up to you. In cases of sexual Some individuals, known as Campus Security misconduct, the YPD will provide the Title IX office Authorities (CSAs) under the federal Clery Act, also with a case summary, and will advise you about the have a responsibility to report allegations of sexual resources and assistance the University can provide. misconduct to the Yale Police Department without including identifying details. A CSA is defined by law “Messages from the Chief” as a member of the campus police/public safety and Under the federal Clery Act, the University is security, any individual who has responsibility for responsible for issuing “timely warnings,” also known campus security or an individual who has significant as “Messages from the Chief,” in response to some responsibility for student and campus activities. reports. Only specific crimes require a timely warning; Publications the crime must have occurred within the officially The University issues regular publications—such as the designated campus area and there must be a serious semi-annual Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct or ongoing risk to the community. If you report an and the annual Campus Safety Report—to inform the incident that meets these criteria, a message will be community and the public in general about complaints sent out from the Chief of Police. The warning message of sexual misconduct brought to the University’s will contain a brief description of the crime and may attention. These reports are written with great care indicate the location where the incident occurred. It to preserve the privacy of the individuals involved will not include any information that would identify by omitting names and providing only minimal you or other individuals involved. descriptions or statistical summaries. Information you share with individuals with reporting responsibilities The following summary of federal and state laws related to sexual misconduct is provided for Certain individuals on campus have a responsibility to report allegations of sexual misconduct to a reference only. For the most up-to-date Yale policies Title IX Coordinator. These individuals include all and definitions, please see the Sexual Misconduct faculty, certain administrators, UWC members, and Response and Prevention website at smr.yale.edu. students in official roles such as Communication and

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21 APPENDIX A: TITLE IX SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

Title IX Sexual Misconduct1 subjected to unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature determined by a reasonable person to be so severe, The following definitions will apply to allegations pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively of misconduct addressed under Section 4 of the denies the individual equal access to Yale’s education Procedures of the University-Wide Committee program or activity. on Sexual Misconduct uwc.yale.edu/policies-and- procedures): Sexual Assault Sexual assault is any sexual act directed against Federal regulations for the implementation another person without the consent of the victim, of Title IX of the Education Amendments of including rape, sodomy, sexual assault with an 1972 provide detailed rules for addressing object, fondling, incest, and statutory rape. formal complaints about some types of sexual Dating Violence misconduct. Sexual Misconduct covered by these regulations is referred to as “Title IX Dating violence is violence committed by a person Sexual Misconduct.” Yale’s broader definitions who is or has been in a social relationship of a of sexual misconduct include Title IX Sexual romantic or intimate nature with the victim. The Misconduct. For questions about Title IX Sexual existence of such a relationship shall be determined Misconduct or the rules applicable to formal based on a consideration of the length of the complaints, please contact a Title IX Coordinator relationship, the type of relationship, and the or the UWC. frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship.

Sexual Harassment Domestic Violence Sexual harassment occurs when (1) A Yale employee Domestic violence includes felony or misdemeanor conditions the provision of an aid, benefit, or service crimes of violence, on the basis of sex, committed: of the university on an individual’s participation in unwelcome sexual conduct, or (2) An individual is • by a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim, 1 All terms and their definitions in this section will be inter- preted and applied by Yale in accordance with the definitions • by a person with whom the victim shares a child contained in 34 C.F.R. § 106.30 (the “Title IX regulations”). in common, Yale’s language is intended to convey the same meaning as the definitions referenced in the Title IX regulations.

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• by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner, • by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of Connecticut, such as others related by blood or marriage or who presently reside together or have resided together, or • by any other person against an adult or youth2 victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of Connecticut.

Stalking Stalking means engaging in a course of conduct on the basis of sex directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety or the safety of others, or suffer substantial emotional distress.

2 For purposes of this definition, the term “youth” means a person who is 11 to 24 years old.

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Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 any education program or activity receiving Federal (20 USC § 1681) financial assistance.

No person in the United States shall, on the basis of Connecticut General Statutes 10a-55m through sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the 10a-55q benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under Connecticut laws on campus policies and procedures regarding sexual assault, stalking, and intimate partner violence.

20 U.S.C 1092(f) Code as amended by the Campus SaVE Act of 2013.

Sexual Assault Federal Definition 34 U.S.C. § 12291. The term “sexual assault” means any nonconsensual sexual act proscribed by Federal, tribal, or State law, including when the victim lacks capacity to consent. 20 U.S.C. § 1092. The term“sexual assault” means an offense classified as a forcible or nonforcible sex offense under the uniform crime reporting system of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Sex Offenses Definitions From the National Incident-Based Reporting System Edition of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program Sex Offenses—Any sexual act directed against another person, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent.

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A.Rape—The carnal knowledge of a person, Sex Offenses—Nonforcible Unla wful, nonforcible without the consent of the victim, including sexual intercourse. instances where the victim is incapable of A. Incest—Nonforcible sexual intercourse giving consent because of his/her age or between persons who are related to each because of his/her temporary or permanent other within the degrees wherein marriage mental or physical incapacity. is prohibited by law. B. Sodomy—Oral or anal sexual intercourse B Statutory. Rape—Nonforcible sexual with another person, without the consent intercourse with a person who is under the of the victim, including instances where the statutory age of consent. victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her age or because of his/her temporary Connecticut Definition or permanent mental or physical incapacity. C.G.S. § 53a-70. Sexual assault in the first degree: C. Sexual Assault With An Object—To use an Class B or A felony. (a) A person is guilty of sexual object or instrument to unlawfully penetrate, assault in the first degree when such person (1) com- however slightly, the genital or anal opening pels another person to engage in sexual intercourse of the body of another person, without the by the use of force against such other person or a consent of the victim, including instances third person, or by the threat of use of force against where the victim is incapable of giving consent such other person or against a third person which because of his/her age or because of his/her reasonably causes such person to fear physical injury temporary or permanent mental or physical to such person or a third person, or (2) engages in incapacity. sexual intercourse with another person and such D Fondling—The. touching of the private body other person is under thirteen years of age and the parts of another person for the purpose of actor is more than two years older than such person, sexual gratification without the consent of the or (3) commits sexual assault in the second degree as victim, including instances where the victim provided in section 53a-71 and in the commission of is incapable of giving consent because of his/ such offense is aided by two or more other persons her age or because of his/her temporary or actually present, or (4) engages in sexual intercourse permanent mental and physical incapacity. with another person and such other person is men- tally incapacitated to the extent that such other per- son is unable to consent to such sexual intercourse.

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C.G.S. § 53a-70a. Aggravated sexual assault in the because of mental disability or disease to the first degree: Class B or A felony. (a) A person is guilty extent that such other person is unable to consent of aggravated sexual assault in the first degree to such sexual intercourse; or (3) such other person when such person commits sexual assault in the is physically helpless; or (4) such other person is first degree as provided in section 53a-70, and in the less than eighteen years old and the actor is such commission of such offense (1) such person uses or person’s guardian or otherwise responsible for the is armed with and threatens the use of or displays or general supervision of such person’s welfare; or (5) represents by such person’s words or conduct that such other person is in custody of law or detained such person possesses a deadly weapon, (2) with in- in a hospital or other institution and the actor has tent to disfigure the victim seriously and permanent- supervisory or disciplinary authority over such other ly, or to destroy, amputate or disable permanently a person; or (6) the actor is a psychotherapist and such member or organ of the victim’s body, such person other person is (A) a patient of the actor and the causes such injury to such victim, (3) under circum- sexual intercourse occurs during the psychotherapy stances evincing an extreme indifference to human session, (B) a patient or former patient of the actor life such person recklessly engages in conduct which and such patient or former patient is emotionally creates a risk of death to the victim, and thereby dependent upon the actor, or (C) a patient or former causes serious physical injury to such victim, or (4) patient of the actor and the sexual intercourse such person is aided by two or more other persons occurs by means of therapeutic deception; or (7) the actually present. No person shall be convicted of sex- actor accomplishes the sexual intercourse by means ual assault in the first degree and aggravated sexual of false representation that the sexual intercourse assault in the first degree upon the same transaction is for a bona fide medical purpose by a health care but such person may be charged and prosecuted for professional; or (8) the actor is a school employee both such offenses upon the same information. and such other person is a student enrolled in a school in which the actor works or a school under C.G.S. § 53a-71. Sexual assault in the second degree: the jurisdiction of the local or regional board of Class C or B felony. (a) A person is guilty of sexual education which employs the actor; or (9) the actor assault in the second degree when such person is a coach in an athletic activity or a person who engages in sexual intercourse with another person provides intensive, ongoing instruction and such and: (1) Such other person is thirteen years of age other person is a recipient of coaching or instruction or older but under sixteen years of age and the from the actor and (A) is a secondary school student actor is more than three years older than such and receives such coaching or instruction in a other person; or (2) such other person is impaired secondary school setting, or (B) is under eighteen

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years of age; or (10) the actor is twenty years of age or is armed with and threatens the use of or displays or older and stands in a position of power, authority or represents by such person’s words or conduct that or supervision over such other person by virtue of the such person possesses a pistol, revolver, machine actor’s professional, legal, occupational or volunteer gun, rifie, shotgun or other firearm. No person shall status and such other person’s participation in a be convicted of sexual assault in the third degree program or activity, and such other person is under and sexual assault in the third degree with a firearm eighteen years of age; or (11) such other person is upon the same transaction but such person may be placed or receiving services under the direction of charged and prosecuted for both such offenses upon the Commissioner of Developmental Services in any the same information. public or private facility or program and the actor has C.G.S. § 53a-73a. Sexual assault in the fourth degree: supervisory or disciplinary authority over such other Class A misdemeanor or class D felony. (a) A person person. is guilty of sexual assault in the fourth degree when: C.G.S. § 53a-72a. Sexual assault in the third degree: (1) Such person subjects another person to sexual Class D or C felony. (a) A person is guilty of sexual contact who is (A) under thirteen years of age and assault in the third degree when such person (1) the actor is more than two years older than such compels another person to submit to sexual contact other person, or (B) thirteen years of age or older (A) by the use of force against such other person or but under fifteen years of age and the actor is more a third person, or (B) by the threat of use of force than three years older than such other person, or against such other person or against a third person, (C) mentally incapacitated or impaired because which reasonably causes such other person to fear of mental disability or disease to the extent that physical injury to himself or herself or a third person, such other person is unable to consent to such or (2) engages in sexual intercourse with another sexual contact, or (D) physically helpless, or (E) less person whom the actor knows to be related to him than eighteen years old and the actor is such other or her within any of the degrees of kindred specified person’s guardian or otherwise responsible for the in section 46b-21. general supervision of such other person’s welfare, or (F) in custody of law or detained in a hospital or C.G.S. § 53a-72b. Sexual assault in the third degree other institution and the actor has supervisory or with a firearm: Class C or B felony. ( a) A person is disciplinary authority over such other person; or guilty of sexual assault in the third degree with a (2) such person subjects another person to sexual firearm when such person commits sexual assault in contact without such other person’s consent; or the third degree as provided in section 53a-72a, and (3) such person engages in sexual contact with in the commission of such offense, such person uses

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an animal or dead body; or (4) such person is a program or activity, and (B) such other person is psychotherapist and subjects another person to under eighteen years of age; or (9) such person sexual contact who is (A) a patient of the actor and subjects another person to sexual contact who is the sexual contact occurs during the psychotherapy placed or receiving services under the direction of session, or (B) a patient or former patient of the actor the Commissioner of Developmental Services in any and such patient or former patient is emotionally public or private facility or program and the actor has dependent upon the actor, or (C) a patient or former supervisory or disciplinary authority over such other patient of the actor and the sexual contact occurs by person. means of therapeutic deception; or (5) such person subjects another person to sexual contact and Sexual Harassment accomplishes the sexual contact by means of false representation that the sexual contact is for a bona Federal Definition fide medical purpose by a health care professional; 34 C.F.R § 106.30. Sexual harassment means conduct or (6) such person is a school employee and subjects on the basis of sex that satisfies one or more of the another person to sexual contact who is a student following: enrolled in a school in which the actor works or a (1) An employee of the recipient conditioning the school under the jurisdiction of the local or regional provision of an aid, benefit, or service of the recipient board of education which employs the actor; or (7) on an individual’s participation in unwelcome sexual such person is a coach in an athletic activity or a conduct; person who provides intensive, ongoing instruction and subjects another person to sexual contact who (2) Unwelcome conduct determined by a reasonable is a recipient of coaching or instruction from the person to be so severe, pervasive, and objectively actor and (A) is a secondary school student and offensive that it effectively denies a person equal receives such coaching or instruction in a secondary access to the recipient’s education program or school setting, or (B) is under eighteen years of age; activity; or or (8) such person subjects another person to sexual (3) “Sexual assault” as defined in 20 U.S.C. 1092(f) contact and (A) the actor is twenty years of age or (6)(A)(v), “dating violence” as defined in 34 U.S.C. older and stands in a position of power, authority or 12291(a)(10), “domestic violence” as defined in 34 supervision over such other person by virtue of the U.S.C. 12291(a)(8), or “stalking” as defined in 34 U.S.C. actor’s professional, legal, occupational or volunteer 12291(a)(30). status and such other person’s participation in a

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Connecticut Definition victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the C.G.S. Sec. § 46a-60. Discriminatory employment victim as a spouse or intimate partner, by a person practices prohibited. (b) It shall be a discriminatory similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the practice in violation of this section: domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction (8) For an employer, by the employer or the receiving grant monies, or by any other person employer’s agent, for an employment agency, by against an adult or youth victim who is protected itself or its agent, or for any labor organization, from that person’s acts under the domestic or family by itself or its agent, to harass any employee, violence laws of the jurisdiction... person seeking employment or member on the (10) The term “dating violence” means violence basis of sex or gender identity or expression. committed by a person— “Sexual harassment” shall, for the purposes of this subdivision, be defined as any unwelcome sexual (A) who is or has been in a social relationship of a advances or requests for sexual favors or any romantic or intimate nature with the victim; and conduct of a sexual nature when (A) submission to (B) where the existence of such a relationship shall such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly be determined based on a consideration of the a term or condition of an individual’s employment, following factors: (B) submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment (i) The length of the relationship. decisions affecting such individual, or (C) such (ii) The type of relationship. conduct has the purpose or effect of substantially interfering with an individual’s work performance or (iii) The frequency of interaction between the creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working persons involved in the relationship. environment. Connecticut Definition Intimate Partner Violence C.G.S. § 10a-55m. “Intimate partner violence” means any physical or sexual harm against an individual by Federal Definition a current or former spouse of or person in a dating 34 U.S.C. § 12291. (8) The term “domestic violence” relationship with such individual that results from includes felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence any action by such spouse or such person that may committed by a current or former spouse or intimate be classified as a sexual assault under section 53a-70, partner of the victim, by a person with whom the

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53a-70a, 53a-70b, 53a-71, 53a-72a, 53a-72b or 53a-73a, action, method, device or means, including, but not stalking under section 53a-181c, 53a-181d or 53a-181e, limited to, electronic or social media, (1) follows, lies or family violence as designated under section in wait for, monitors, observes, surveils, threatens, 46b-38h. harasses, communicates with or sends unwanted gifts to, a person, or (2) interferes with a person’s property, Stalking and “emotional distress” means significant mental or Federal Definition psychological suffering or distress that may or may not require medical or other professional treatment The term “stalking” means engaging 34 U.S.C.§ 12291. or counseling. (b) A person is guilty of stalking in the in a course of conduct directed at a specific person second degree when: that would cause a reasonable person to-- (1) Such person knowingly engages in a course of (A) fear for his or her safety or the safety of others; or conduct directed at a specific person that would (B) suffer substantial emotional distress. cause a reasonable person to (A) fear for such person’s physical safety or the physical safety of a third person, Connecticut Definition or (B) suffer emotional distress; or C.G.S. § 53a-181c. Stalking in the first degree: Class (2) Such person intentionally, and for no legitimate D felony. (a) A person is guilty of stalking in the first purpose, engages in a course of conduct directed at a degree when such person commits stalking in the specific person that would cause a reasonable person second degree as provided in section 53a-181d and to fear that such person’s employment, business or (1) such person has previously been convicted of a career is threatened, where (A) such conduct consists violation of section 53a-181d, or (2) such conduct of the actor telephoning to, appearing at or initiating violates a court order in effect at the time of the communication or contact at such other person’s offense, or (3) the other person is under sixteen years place of employment or business, provided the actor of age. was previously and clearly informed to cease such C.G.S. § 53a-181d. Stalking in the second degree: conduct, and (B) such conduct does not consist of Class A misdemeanor. (a) For the purposes of this constitutionally protected activity. section, “course of conduct” means two or more acts, C.G.S. § 53a-181e. Stalking in the third degree: Class B including, but not limited to, acts in which a person misdemeanor. (a) A person is guilty of stalking in the directly, indirectly or through a third party, by any

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third degree when such person recklessly causes another person to reasonably (1) fear for his or her physical safety, or (2) suffer emotional distress, as defined in section 53a-181d, by willfully and repeatedly following or lying in wait for such other person. C.G.S. § 53a-181f. Electronic stalking: Class B misdemeanor. (a) A person is guilty of electronic stalking when such person recklessly causes another person to reasonably fear for his or her physical safety by wilfully and repeatedly using a global positioning system or similar electronic monitoring system to remotely determine or track the position or movement of such other person.

31 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Office of Institutional Equity and Access University Chaplain’s Office can assist with concerns related to provides confidential pastoral care to affirmative action, equal opportunity, individuals in the Yale community. sexual harassment, racial harassment, or 203.432.1128 fairness in admissions or employment at chaplain.yale.edu Yale. 203.432.0849 Resources Beyond Yale [email protected] Women and Families Center offers support services and support groups See inside front cover for primary Office of International Students for survivors of sexual violence and their and Scholars resources loved ones. serves as a resource on immigration 203.389.5010 matters and is Yale’s liaison to the U.S. womenfamilies.org Yale Resources federal agencies that are concerned with Communication & Consent Educators matters related to international students RAINN Hotline are a large, diverse group of and scholars studying and working at Yale. is the nation’s largest anti-sexual assault undergraduates working together to 203.432.2305 organization. foster a more positive sexual and social oiss.yale.edu 1.800.656.4673 (hotline) climate in Yale College. rainn.org cce.yalecollege.yale.edu Office of LGBTQ Resources provides education, outreach, and support The Umbrella Center for Domestic Counseling and Support Services around sexual orientation and gender Violence Services is a free, confidential program provided to identity. provides services for victims and their employees and their families by Magellan 203.432.0309 children. Health Services. lgbtq.yale.edu 203.736.9944 1.800.327.9240 bhcare.org/services/domestic-violence- Office for Women in Medicine victim-advocacy-3/umbrella-center-for- Human Resources Generalists promotes the academic growth of women domestic-violence-services/ can assist staff with matters related to in medicine and medical sciences. policy, administration and employee 203.785.4680 New Haven Legal Assistance Association relations. medicine.yale.edu/owm provides services to those otherwise your.yale.edu/work-yale/support/human- unable to obtain legal counsel. resources-generalists Student Accessibility Services 203.946.4811 facilitates individual accommodations for nhlegal.org Mental Health & Counseling all students with disabilities. provides care related to the psychological 203.432.2324 New Haven Police Department concerns of undergraduate, graduate, and sas.yale.edu works closely with the Yale Police. professional school students. 203.946.6333 203.432.0290 newhavenct.gov/gov/depts/nhpd

32 UNIVERSITY TITLE IX COORDINATORS

The Title IX Coordinator in your school or unit may be best able to help you. However, you may contact any of the Title IX Coordinators. See page 8 for more information about the role of a Title IX Coordinator.

University Title IX Coordinator Michelle Nearon, Associate Dean School of Medicine Stephanie Spangler, Vice Provost for Health and Director of the Office for Graduate Cindy Crusto, Associate Professor and Affairs and Academic Integrity Student Development and Diversity Assistant Chair for Diversity in Psychiatry [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 203.432.6854 203.432.1301 203.789.7645 Matthew Tanico, Assistant Dean of Graduate Rosemarie Fisher, Professor Emeritus and Senior Deputy Title IX Coordinators Student Life Director for Resident/Fellow Well-being Jason Killheffer, Assistant Provost for Academic [email protected] [email protected] Integrity 203.432.3260 203.688.1449 [email protected] Divinity School Darin Latimore, Deputy Dean and Chief 203.432.6854 Alison Cunningham, Director of Professional Diversity Officer Valarie Stanley, Director, Office of Institutional Formation [email protected] Equity and Access [email protected] 203.785.6896 [email protected] 203.432.5330 Jessica Wilen, Assistant Professor, Director of 203.432.0849 School of Drama Professional Standards Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean [email protected] Deputy Title IX Coordinators [email protected] 203.737.4160 For Faculty and Staff 203.432.4781 Jamaal Thomas, Senior Representative for School of Music the Office of Institutional Equity and Access School of Engineering and Applied Science Stefanie Parkyn, Chief of Staff [email protected] Vince Wilczynski, Deputy Dean [email protected] 203.432.0852 [email protected] 203.432.4160 203.432.4221 Yale College School of Nursing Ksenia Sidorenko, Deputy Title IX Coordinator School of the Environment Maurice Nelson, Director of Diversity, Equity, [email protected] Andrés Fernández, Assistant Dean of Student and Inclusion 203.432.3864 Affairs [email protected] [email protected] 203.737.6594 School of Architecture 203.432.6286 Tanial Lowe, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs School of Public Health [email protected] Alyssa Pereira, Assistant Director of Student Jody Sindelar Professor of Public Health 203.432.1023 Affairs [email protected] [email protected] 203.785-5287 School of Art 203.432.4247 Sandra Burns, Lecturer in Art [email protected] Law School 203.764.0477 Ellen Cosgrove, Associate Dean [email protected] Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 203.432.7646 For the most up to date contact Danica Fisher, Assistant Dean for Diversity information for the Title IX [email protected] School of Management Coordinators, visit provost.yale.edu/ 203.436.4171 Rebecca Udler, Director of Academic Affairs title-ix/coordinators and Student Life [email protected] 203.432.7501 33 Not sure who to call? Contact SHARE 203.432.2000

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