COA 09-11 Catalog - Peralta Colleges

district policies and procedures199orientacion o preferencia sexual en cualquiera de susprogramas y actividades. Dicha discriminacion no setolerara tampoco en cuanto se refiere a la disponibilidady la oferta de programas y actividades, tales como laayuda economica y los servicios de caracter especial.Para su cumplimiento, el Distrito tomara de inmediatolas medidas necesarias para investigar toda quejade discriminacion para eliminar cualquier caso dediscriminacion presente y futuro. El Distrito prohiberepresalias contra un individuo que presente una queja, oparticipe en el proceso de la investigacion de una denunciapor acoso discriminatorio.Implementing Procedures ProhibitingSexual, Racial, and Disability Harassmentand Discrimination Toward StudentsA. DisseminationThe policy and procedures shall be published in all student,faculty and staff handbooks, each college’s catalog andschedule of classes, and other printed material deemedappropriate by each college’s Vice President of StudentServices.The policy and procedures will also be disseminated tostudents at each college’s new student orientation and atperiodic workshops to be scheduled by each college’s VicePresident of Student Services.The policy and procedures will also be disseminated toeach faculty member, all members of the administrativestaff, and all members of the support staff both at time ofhire and at the beginning of each school year.The policy and procedures shall also be displayed in aprominent location at each college along with the othernotices regarding the college’s procedures and standardsof conduct. A copy of the Policy and Procedures shallbe made available to any person expressing a verbalcomplaint about such matters.B. Sexual Racial, and Disability Harassmentand Discrimination DefinedThe Peralta Community College District expresslyforbids sexual, racial, and disability harassment of itsstudents by faculty, administrators, supervisors, Districtemployees, other students, vendors or members of thegeneral public. The District also prohibits discriminationagainst its students by subjecting any student to adverseor differential treatment, or depriving that student ofany benefits of the District because of that student’s sex,race, or disability. Furthermore, the District prohibitsretaliation against any individual who files a complaintor participates in a discrimination inquiry.Sexual harassment includes, but is not limited to,unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors,and other verbal, visual, or physical conduct of a sexualnature, made by someone from or in the educationalsetting, under any of the following conditions:1. Submission to the conduct is explicitly or implicitlymade a term or a condition of a student’s academicstatus, or progress.2. Submission to, or rejection of, the conduct by astudent is used as the basis of academic decisionsaffecting the student.