Title IX Policy Violations
Conduct must meet the federal Title IX definition and jurisdictional requirements.
Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment: Occurs when an employee of Wooster conditions a benefit, service, or opportunity on a student’s participation in unwelcome sexual conduct.
Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment: Unwelcome conduct on the basis of sex determined by a reasonable person to be so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it denies a person equal access to Wooster’s educational program or activity.
Sexual Assault: A forcible or non-forcible sex offense as classified under the Uniform Crime Reporting system of the FBI.
- Rape: Any sexual penetration or intercourse (anal, oral, vaginal), however slight, with any object, by a person upon another person that is without consent
- Sexual Contact: The intentional touching of the clothed or unclothed body parts without consent of the victim for the purpose of sexual degradation, sexual gratification, or sexual humiliation. The forced touching by the victim of the actor’s clothed or unclothed body parts without consent of the victim for sexual degradation, sexual gratification, or sexual humiliation.
- Incest: Nonforcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degree of wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
- Statutory Rape: Sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent. In Ohio, no person may have sex with a child under the age of thirteen, nor may a person over the age of eighteen have sex with a child under the age of sixteen.
Dating Violence: Violence committed by a current or former dating or intimate partner.
Domestic Violence: Violence committed by a spouse, former spouse, co-parent, or someone cohabitating.
Other Sexual Misconduct Violations
Addresses conduct that falls outside Title IX but still violates College policy.
Sexual Harassment: Unwelcome conduct on the basis of sex that affects employment, academics, or creates a hostile environment.
Non-Consensual Sexual Intercourse: Sexual penetration without consent and/or through force.
Non-Consensual Sexual Touching: Sexual touching without consent and/or through force.
Sexual Exploitation: Taking sexual advantage of someone without their consent.
Intimate Partner Violence: Violence or threats of violence between current or former intimate partners.
Indecent Exposure: Exposing one’s genitals in a sexually explicit manner in a public place or any place where others may be offended or alarmed.
Additional Policy Violations
Retaliation is any attempt to intimidate, threaten, coerce, or take adverse action against a person participating in a Title IX process. Retaliation includes:
- Discouraging an individual from reporting.
- Discouraging witness participation.
- Threatening, intimidating or harassing anyone involved in a Title IX process.
- Intentionally causing negative consequences for someone involved in a process.
- Using another person to carry out retaliation on your behalf.