Time Frame for Reporting

Brown

There is no time limit on reporting or filing Complaints of violations of this policy, although Brown University’s ability to respond fully may be limited with the passage of time.

If the respondent is no longer affiliated with Brown (e.g., a report is made after a student has left or graduated or an employee no longer works for Brown), the University will still provide reasonably available remedial measures, assist the complainant in identifying external reporting options, and may take other appropriate action.

Chicago

Academic appointees must keep in mind that a graduate/ professional school student’s initial consent to a romantic relationship does not preclude a charge of sexual misconduct in the future.

While there may be no apparent impediment to a sexual and/or romantic relationship between an academic appointee and a graduate/professional school student outside each one’s disciplinary realm, students’ academic interests and pursuits often shift. Beliefs about what is consensual may also shift over time. What may appear to be consensual at one point may subsequently be interpreted as coercive, especially in hindsight and after the end of the relationship. The inherent power differential between an academic appointee and a graduate/professional school student heightens the risks inherent in such relationships, prompting the University to advise strongly against them altogether even in the absence of a perceived or real conflict of interest.

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