This site reproduces the content contained in the 2009-2010 Unlawful Harassment brochure. You may download this PDF here. Please contact Aneesah Ali with additional questions.

The University of Chicago is a community of scholars dedicated to research, academic excellence, and the pursuit and cultivation of learning. Members of the University community cannot thrive unless each is accepted as an autonomous individual and is treated without regard to characteristics irrelevant to participation in the life of the University. Freedom of expression is vital to our shared goal of the pursuit of knowledge and should not be restricted by a multitude of rules. At the same time, unlawful discrimination, including harassment, compromises the integrity of the University. It is the intention of the University to take necessary action to prevent, correct, and where indicated, discipline unlawful harassment.

Unlawful harassment includes peer harassment among students, staff or faculty and same sex harassment. Unlawful harassment by a faculty member, instructor or teaching assistant of a student over whom he or she has authority, or by a supervisor of a subordinate, is particularly serious.