Campus Environment Team - Harassment Policy

It is a violation of ASU policy for any ASU employee or student to subject any person to harassment on ASU property or at an ASU-sponsored activity.

Actions constitute harassment if:

• they substantially interfere with another’s educational or employment opportunities, peaceful enjoyment of residence, or physical
  security, and
• they are taken with the general intent to engage in the actions and with the knowledge that the actions are likely to substantially interfere with a protected interest identified above. Such intent and knowledge may be inferred from all the circumstances.

Neither this nor any other University policy is violated by actions that amount to expression protected by the state or federal constitutions or by related principals of academic freedom. This limitation is further described in the ASU First Amendment Guidelines, the current version of which supplements this policy. (Available in the General Counsel and EO/AA Offices on the Tempe campus.)

If harassment is discriminatory, it falls within the education, monitoring, reporting, and referral functions of the CET. Harassment is discriminatory if taken with the purpose or effect of differentiating on the basis of another person’s race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, Vietnam era veteran, or other protected veteran status.