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. A paraprofessional student staff member shall report immediately to his/her supervisor the potential for, or existence of, any romantic and/or sexual relationship with anyone living within any on-campus housing unit. This will permit the UNA administration to take any appropriate measures. Each matter will be analyzed on a case-by-case basis depending upon the specific facts and context of the relationship. If paraprofessional staff are required to address an incident with said party, they should recuse themselves and contact a back-up paraprofessional student staff member. If another paraprofessional student staff member is not
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