KSU is committed to maintaining the campus community as a place of work and study for faculty, administrators, staff and students, free of sexual harassment, intimidation, and exploitation. The University does not tolerate behavior by an employee that constitutes sexual or other unlawful harassment of any member(s) of the University community. Harassment in any form, including verbal and physical conduct, visual displays, threats, demands and retaliation is unlawful and will not be tolerated. It is our policy that any form of harassment on the basis of sex, race, national origin, religion or other categories protected by law or other forms of harassment of or abusive treatment that may create a hostile environment for employees, students, guests or applicants for employment will not be tolerated at the Kentucky State University.

Define the different types of harassment and provide all employees, students and guests information on how to deal with any form of harassment should they be confronted with such behavior by an employee or provider of services or visitors at KSU.

Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal, visual or physical conduct of a sexual nature. It can include, but is not limited to, unwelcome sexual flirtations, advances or propositions, verbal abuse of a sexual nature, subtle pressure or requests for sexual activities, unnecessary touching of an individual, graphic verbal commentaries about an individual's body, sexually degrading words used to describe an individual, a display in the workplace of sexually suggestive objects or pictures, sexually explicit or offensive jokes or physical assault. Sexual harassment not only happens to female employees; male employees can be affected as well.

Racial, national origin or other forms of harassment can take the form of abuse, ostracism, unwelcome jokes, graffiti or slurs or other similar-type conduct. Typically, it is inappropriate stereotyping. These types of actions are also unacceptable in the workplace.

All supervisors and managers including administrators and department heads are also covered by this policy and are prohibited from engaging in any form of harassing or discriminating conduct.

No department head or other administrator has the authority to suggest to any employee or applicant that his/her employment, continued employment, or future advancement will be affected in any way by the individual's entering into, or refusing to enter into, any form of personal relationship with the supervisor or manager. Such conduct is a direct violation of this policy.