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��The right of Complaint, to �le a complaint with the U.S. Department of
Education concerning alleged failures by Bunker Hill Community College to
comply with the requirements of FERPA.
The name and address of the of�ce that administers FERPA is:
Family Policy Compliance Office
U.S. Department of Education
600 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-4605
Directory Information
Bunker Hill Community College has designated the following items as directory
information: student name, academic program, semesters of attendance, current
enrollment status, Dean’s and Merit Lists, degrees or certi�cates awarded and dates
of graduation.
The College may release directory information to a third party requesting such
student information without �rst obtaining the student’s consent.
A student has the right to refuse to permit the College to release directory information.
In order to facilitate this, a student must request in writing that a privacy code be
placed on his/her directory information through the Admissions and Registration
Of�ce or the Registrar’s Of�ce. If a privacy code is placed on a student’s record,
no directory information will be released in College publications or to third parties,
excluding cases in which the Solomon Amendment or lawful subpoenas require the
College to release such information by law.
Notwithstanding the College’s de�nition of directory information, the Department
of Defense, pursuant to the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997,
identi�es the following additional student information as directory information for
Department of Defense purposes: student’s address, age and level of education.
This information is available and accessible from student records. Nonconsensual
release of directory information may be submitted to the Department of Defense in
accordance with the Solomon Amendment.
Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment of a student, an employee or any other person in the College is
unlawful, unacceptable, impermissible and intolerable.
Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination. It occurs in a variety of situations
which share a common element: the inappropriate introduction of sexual activities
or comments into the work or learning environment. Often, sexual harassment
involves relationships of unequal power and contains elements of coercion, as when
compliance with requests for sexual favors becomes a criterion for granting work,
study or grading bene�ts. However, sexual harassment may also involve relationships
among equals, as when repeated sexual advances or demeaning verbal behaviors
have a harmful effect on a person’s ability to study or work in the academic setting.
For general purposes, sexual harassment may be described as unwelcome advances,
requests for sexual favors and other physical conduct and expressive behavior of
a sexual nature when: (1) submission to such conduct is made either explicitly
or implicitly a term or condition of an individual’s employment or education;
(2) submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis
for academic or employment decisions affecting that individual or (3) such conduct
has the purpose or effect of substantially interfering with an individual’s academic
or professional performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or demeaning
employment or educational environment.
A student, an employee, or any other person in the College who is found to have
engaged in sexual harassment is subject to discipline up to and including termination
of employment or expulsion from the College.
When a student, an employee or any other person in the College believes s/he has
been the subject of sexual harassment, the grievance process is a mechanism for
redress. All grievants must contact the College’s Af�rmative Action Of�cer before
proceeding under the Af�rmative Action Policy’s Grievance Procedure. Reasonable
efforts are made to maintain con�dentiality during the grievance process.
Sexual harassment is forbidden by both federal and state regulations. In keeping with
these regulations, a concerted effort will be made to protect employees, students and
others from sexual harassment as de�ned.
For the full text of the College’s policy concerning sexual harassment, refer to the
Bunker Hill Community College Student Handbook.
Student Right-to-Know Graduation Rate
and Campus Security Information
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Security Act, as amended by Public Law 102-26, the Higher Education Technical
Amendments of 1991, the public may obtain Bunker Hill Community College student
graduation rate information.
As mandated by the Crime Statistics Law, 20 U.S.C. 1092F, the College reports for
the previous calendar year and for two prior years, if available, statistics concerning
on-campus occurrences of crimes of murder, sexual offenses, robbery, aggravated
assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft. In addition, the law requires that the
College report the number of on-campus arrests for liquor violations, drug abuse
violations and the possession of weapons.
Graduation Rates and Campus Security data are available online for all
colleges that are required to report this information. This information is reported
by colleges and published by the United States Government and available at
http://ope.ed.gov/security/index.aspx.
In compliance with the law, security information is also available through the Public
Safety Of�ce, Room E127, Charlestown Campus and via the College website at
www.bhcc.mass.edu.
2012 - 2013 College Catalog