that ensure the maintenance of secure, clean, healthy, psychologically safe, and esthetically pleasing living accommodations.” (Winston & Fitch, p. 317, 1993) . Students with educational responsibilities; i.e. undergraduate teaching assistants, graduate teaching assistants, and graduate assistants also fall into this category. Educational Responsibility – The power or authority to evaluate, influence, provide, or control aspects related to a student’s education or professional development. Covered activities include, but are not limited to, teaching, grading, mentoring, advising, evaluating research or other academic activity, serving on a student’s dissertation committee, participating in decisions or recommendations regarding funding or other resources, clinical supervision, and recommending for admissions, employment fellowships, or awards. Policy Regarding Faculty-Student, Staff-Student, and Paraprofessional Student Staff- Student Consensual Relationships Interactions between the faculty members, staff members, or paraprofessional student staff members and students at the University are guided by mutual trust, confidence and/or professional ethics. Professional faculty-student, staff-student, or paraprofessional student staff-student relationships have a power differential between faculty members, staff members, or paraprofessional student staff and students; personal faculty-student, staff-student, or paraprofessional student staff-student relationships carry risks of conflict of interest, breach of trust, abuse of power, and/or breach of professional ethics. Prohibited Relationships Faculty members and staff members shall not engage in, and are prohibited from, consensual relationships with students whenever a faculty member or staff member has direct supervision with respect to the student. Should a consensual relationship exist prior to the beginning of the professional relationship, or develop, or appear likely to develop, while the faculty member or staff member is, or would be, in a position of direct supervision over the student, the faculty member or staff member 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
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