What is Sexual Harassment?
Title IX defines sexual harassment as conduct on the basis of sex or gender that satisfies one or more of the following:
- A school employee conditioning the provision of any Compass aid, benefit, or service on an individual’s participation in unwelcome sexual conduct;
- Unwelcome conduct – by either staff or student - determined by a reasonable person to be so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to any Compass education program or activity; OR
- Sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, or stalking (see the Definitions section, below, for an explanation of these terms).
What is NOT Title IX?
Under certain circumstances, a formal complaint of sexual harassment may not meet the criteria for the Title IX grievance procedure. Such circumstances could include:
- The conduct would not constitute sexual harassment (as defined above), even if proved;
- The conduct did not occur within a Compass education program or activity (as that term is defined by the Title IX regulations); or
- The conduct did not occur within the United States.