Georgetown University
Private University
Washington, District Of Columbia
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Policy on Sexual Misconduct
Sexual Harassment: Any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature, including sexual advances, request for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual or gender-based nature when: ... Such conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with an individual's…
Policy Statement on Harassment
Harassment is verbal or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion to an individual because of a Protected Category as specified above, when such conduct has the purpose or effect of: unreasonably interfering with an individual or third party’s academic…
Policy on Speech and Expression
It is Georgetown University’s policy to provide all members of the University community, including faculty, students, and staff, the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, and learn. The ideas of different members of the University community will often and naturally…
Code of Student Conduct: Bullying and Cyberbullying
Any severe, pervasive, or persistent act or conduct, whether physical, cyber/electronic, or verbal, that can reasonably be expected to inflict fear, to intimidate, to incite violence, to force someone to do something against their will or self-interest, and/or substantially interfere with an…
Implementation Guidelines for Georgetown University's Policy on Speech and Expression
As a University dedicated to free and open inquiry, deliberation and debate, Georgetown welcomes speech and expressive activity, in many forms, throughout its campuses. Georgetown has also identified certain “public squares,” which are well suited to expressive activity and where certain types…
Policy on Speech and Expression Preamble
A university is many things but central to its being is discourse, discussion, debate: the untrammeled expression of ideas and information. ... “Free speech” is central to the life of the university ... The long and short of the matter is that…