shall immediately report such relationship with his or her immediate supervisor and initiate steps to avoid and/or terminate the position of direct supervision. Avoidance or termination includes but is not limited to the student not enrolling in a course; a qualified alternative faculty member or teaching assistant taking the position of direct supervision; transfer of the student to another course, section, seminar, etc. taught by a different faculty member or teaching assistant; assigning or transferring the student to, or the student selecting, another academic advisor; or the student dropping or withdrawing from a course. Paraprofessional student staff members shall not have a romantic and/or sexual relationship with anyone currently in their duty coverage area. A consensual friendship-based relationship may exist even if one or both partners consider it casual, temporary, or episodic. The policy applies to even a single intimate, sexual, or romantic encounter. If the potential for such a relationship should develop, the paraprofessional student staff member must immediately notify his/her supervisor in writing. A paraprofessional student staff member must understand if he/she wishes to pursue such a relationship, appropriate action will be taken. This would include, but not be limited to, offering the resident the option to voluntarily move to another complex, or having the paraprofessional student staff member moved to an appropriate location if the ability to do so is present. A paraprofessional student staff member should not be assigned to rounds within an area where a resident with whom he/she is in a relationship currently lives and should not become involved in a disciplinary incident involving said party absent an emergency situation. Discouraged Relationships The following faculty-student, staff-student, and paraprofessional student staff-student relationships are strongly discouraged at the University in light of the potential for apparent and actual conflicts of interest. Should such relationships arise, however, they are required to be disclosed and managed as indicated below: Even when no position of direct supervision exists, a faculty member or staff member who engages in a romantic or sexual relationship with a student must promptly disclose the existence of the relationship to his or her immediate supervisor if there exists a reasonable possibility that a conflict of interest may arise. Relationships, in which a conflict of interest exists or is likely to arise, appear to third parties to create an unfair advantage for the student or to be exploitative of the student and may later develop into conflicts of interest that are prohibited in A above. When the student is a graduate student in the same department or academic program as the faculty member or is an undergraduate student and is majoring or minoring in the same department as the faculty member or department of a staff and/or paraprofessional student staff member, a potential conflict of interest exists. A conflict of interest also may arise if the student is studying in a department separate from the faculty member. The faculty, staff, or paraprofessional student staff member must promptly disclose the relationship to his or her immediate supervisor when a potential conflict of interest exists or is reasonably likely to arise. Once the relationship is disclosed, the immediate supervisor will evaluate the situation to determine whether an actual conflict of interest exists or is likely to arise and will develop a management plan to address the potential conflict of interest. The faculty, staff, or paraprofessional student staff member has the professional and ethical responsibility to remove himself or herself from any decisions that may reward or penalize the student involved and otherwise comply with the management plan.
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