This form is to be used to report Sexual Assault, Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Harassment, Relationship Violence, and Stalking.
(See definitions below)
- Sex Assault
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(a) Non-Consensual Sexual Touching (The intentional touching of another person, however slight, in a sexual manner with any object without Consent)
(b) Non-Consensual Sexual Intercourse (Any sexual penetration, however slight, with any object or body part by one or more persons upon another without Consent.)
- Sexual Exploitation
- Any conduct in which a person takes non-consensual or abusive sexual advantage of another for their own advantage or benefit, or to benefit or advantage anyone other than the one being exploited, and that behavior does not otherwise constitute Sexual Assault.
- Sexual Harassment
- any unwelcome sexual advance, request for sexual favors, or other unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, whether verbal, non-verbal, graphic, physical, or otherwise, when:
(1) submission to or rejection of such conduct is either an explicit or implicit term or condition of an individual’s employment, academic standing, evaluation of academic work or advancement in an academic program, or is used as the basis for College decisions affecting the individual (often referred to as “quid pro quo” or “this for that” harassment); or
(2) such conduct creates a hostile environment. A “hostile environment” exists when the conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s learning, working, or living environment, or limiting or depriving an individual of the ability to participate in or benefit from the University’s employment or educational programs and/or activities. Conduct must be sufficiently severe or pervasive to create an intimidating, threatening, abusive, hostile, humiliating, or sexually offensive learning, working, or living environment.
A single incident of Prohibited Conduct can support the existence of a hostile environment (for example, Sexual Assault or Sexual Exploitation)
- Relationship Violence
- includes dating violence, domestic violence and intimate partner violence, is defined as coercive behaviors that serve to exercise control and power in an intimate relationship. The coercive and abusive behaviors can be physical, sexual, psychological, verbal, and/or emotional. Relationship violence can occur between current or former intimate partners who have dated, lived together, have a child together, currently reside together on or off campus, or who are otherwise connected through a past or existing intimate relationship. It can occur in opposite-sex and same-sex relationships.
- Stalking
- A course of conduct (two or more acts) directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to:
(a) fear for their safety or the safety of others or (b) suffer substantial emotional distress.
Please be advised this form will be sent directly to the Title IX office and that Assumption University has a legal obligation to investigate all reports of sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, relationship violence, and stalking. The University will investigate to the extent of the information available to it.
If you wish to report to Campus Police you can call 508-767-7225 or go directly to Campus Police located on the lower level of Kennedy Hall.
Additional information and resources can be found on the University's Title IX website.