NEW LMS: Cedar (replacing STARS)

Sexual Harassment Prevention Training

Please complete your assigned course by using this express link for the Non-supervisory Employee SHP course or this express link to launch the Faculty and Supervisor SHP course. Complete your assignment no later than November 30th to avoid losing progress. More information can be found here.

Stanford
SHARE Title IX and Title VI Office

Danger Zones

Many behaviors could be interpreted as sexually harassing, depending on the circumstances.  Whether behavior is offensive or not depends on how it is perceived, not how it was intended. Sexual conduct is unwelcome whenever the person subjected to it considers it unwelcome.

Watch out for these "Danger Zones" that, either cumulatively, or if the occurrence is severe, pervasive, and/or objectively offensive, could violate applicable policies:

  1. Inappropriate e-mail and sexually explicit internet use
  2. Comments on personal appearance
  3. Hugging, massages and other touching
  4. Unwanted, repeated requests for dates
  5. Off-color jokes and innuendo
  6. Sexually explicit profanity
  7. Nicknames and stereotypes
  8. Invading someone’s personal space
  9. Intrusive personal or sexually explicit questions
  10. Suggestive looks, gestures or sounds
  11. Ridiculing someone’s sexual orientation
  12. Spreading rumors about someone's sexual conduct
  13. Public displays of sexually explicit pictures, calendars, cartoons, etc.

This is a non-exhaustive list of examples. You’ll find more detailed definitions of terms related to sexual harassment in Stanford’s Administrative Guide Memo 1.7.1.