Non-supervisory Employees, Academic Staff, and Postdocs
This course fulfills California Senate Bill 1343, which mandates training on discrimination and harassment for non-supervisory employees. At Stanford, this includes non-supervisory employees (including contingent staff), academic staff, and postdoctoral scholars. This course includes how to recognize illegal forms of discrimination, sex-based harassment, and sexual violence. You will learn about resources, clarify your obligation to report, learn how to assist survivors, and understand that each of us can have a role in standing up for our colleagues and others in our community. The mandate requires at least one hour of training.
All staff who do not supervise other staff or students, which includes: Non-Supervisory Employees, Academic Staff, Contingent employees (Stanford’s temporary* and casual staff), Student Employees and Postdoctoral Scholars.
People who need to take this course
All staff who do not supervise other staff or students. Non-Supervisory staff includes:
- Employees who do not supervise the work of others
- Research or academic staff who do not supervise the work of others
- Lecturers (NOTE: Senior Lecturers are required to complete the course for supervisors; GSB Lecturers are required to complete the course for supervisors)
- Adjuncts
- Instructors
- Postdocs
- Visiting faculty/fellows/scholars
- Teaching assistants*
- Course associates*
- Casual employees**
- Stanford temporary employees**
- Student employees**
Do not take this course if you are a faculty member or a new supervisor.
*Teaching Assistants (TAs) and Course Associates/Assistants (CAs) are required to complete the Sexual Harassment Prevention training. Please contact shareshp-training@stanford.edu to review the compliance requirement and confirm if your TA or CA cohort has been assigned to the SHP training.
**The non-contingent employee population (including casual employees, Stanford temporary employees, and student employees) was migrated to the even-year retraining cycle as of 2024 with a 30-day due date.
California Law SB1343
This California legislation mandates state-wide sexual harassment training for all non-supervisory employees. Learn more about SB1343
Registration information
STARS
Course Code: SHP-2026-WEB (2026 is a retraining year for all employees, including contingent employees, and postdocs)
Express Link for the the SHP-2024 Non-supervisory Employee, Academic Staff, and Postdoc course.
Course information
Style: Online
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
Please note that the State mandates at least one hour of training regarding certain topics including sexual and sex-based harassment, abusive conduct, discrimination, and retaliation in employment. Stanford has Title IX, VAWA, and Clery training requirements, as well as University policies, that add the extra time to the content and time of the online course. The training is reviewed by the Office of General Counsel, and University Human Resources - Employee Labor Relations.
When to take this course
Staff must complete the SHP-2026 online program by their assigned due date. Non-supervisory employees will be required to complete a course every two years (for Stanford it’s every even-numbered year).
Completion certification
Your STARS training history will be updated within 2 days to show that you have completed the course. To print your certificate of completion, please login to your STARS All Learning Training record and "relaunch" the Harassment Prevention training to select "Print Certificate of Completion".