Policy

St. Norbert College is committed to maintaining a workplace characterized by mutual respect and free from harassment. The College prohibits discrimination or harassment in its programs, employment relationships and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, veteran status, predisposing genetic characteristics, age, religion, pregnancy status, and/or any other characteristic protected by College policy or state, local, or federal law. St. Norbert also prohibits any form of retaliation against any individual who has complained about discrimination or harassment, or who has assisted in the investigation of any harassment or discrimination. These prohibitions also include sexual violence, sexual harassment, intimate partner violence, stalking, and/or gender-based misconduct.

Harassment is unwelcome conduct, whether verbal, physical or visual, that unreasonably interferes with an employee’s job performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment. Harassment can consist of, but is not limited to:

1. inappropriate names, slurs, or negative stereotyping;
2. threatening, intimidating, or hostile acts, jokes, or pranks that relate to the individual’s protected status;
3. written or graphic material, including pictures, cartoons, drawings, posters, statements, and graffiti, that ridicules, denigrates, or shows hostility or hatred toward an individual or group because of their protected status, and that is placed on walls, bulletin boards, computer screens, or elsewhere on College premises, or is circulated in the workplace.

Procedures