Human Resources Policies

Appendix 1: Examples of Prohibited Conduct

Discrimination:
Examples of potential discrimination under this Policy include but are not limited to those that result in the interference with, limitation, or denial of access to:

1. An employee’s, or applicant for employment’s, access to employment or conditions and benefits of employment (e.g., hiring, advancement, assignment).
2. A student’s, or admission applicant’s, ability to participate in, access, or benefit from educational programs, services, or activities (e.g., admission, academic standing, grades, assignment, campus housing; athletics).
3. An authorized volunteer’s ability to participate in a volunteer activity.
4. A guest’s or visitor’s ability to participate in, access, or benefit from the university’s programs or activities.
5. Failing to provide reasonable accommodations, consistent with state and federal law, to a qualified individual with a disability.
6. Failing to accommodate religious beliefs of students, faculty, and staff.

Hostile Environment:

Examples of hostile environments may include but are not limited to:

1. Threatening or causing physical harm, extreme verbal abuse, or other conduct which threatens or endangers the health or safety of any person;
2. Intimidation, defined as implied threats or acts that cause an unreasonable fear of harm in another;
3. Hazing as defined further at ASTAF 115 - Hazing Policy (usca.edu).
4. Bullying, defined as repeated and/or severe aggressive behavior likely to intimidate hurt, control, or diminish another person, physically or mentally, that is not speech or conduct otherwise protected by the First Amendment.

Sexual Exploitation:
Examples of sexual exploitation include, but are not limited to:

1. observing another individual’s nudity or sexual activity, or allowing another to observe the same, without the knowledge and consent of all parties involved;
2. exposing one’s genitals in non-consensual circumstances, including unwelcome sexting;
3. streaming of images, photography, video, or audio recording of sexual activity or nudity, or distribution of such without the knowledge and consent of all parties involved;
4. prostituting another individual;
5. knowingly exposing another individual to a sexually-transmitted disease (STD) or infection (STI) or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) without the individual’s knowledge;
6. knowingly failing to use contraception, or deliberately removing or compromising contraception (Stealthing) without the other party’s knowledge; and/or
7. inducing incapacitation (e.g. through the distribution of alcohol or other drug, such as
   Xanax, Ambien, Benadryl, Rohypnol [“Roofies”], Ketamine, GHB, etc.) for the purpose of taking sexual advantage of another person.