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Employee Handbook 1 - Purpose of the Employee Handbook 4 - Staff Wage and Salary Plan 5 - Staff Training and Development 6 - Faculty Personnel Policies and Procedures 7 - Curricular Policies and Procedures 8 - Academic Department and Program Policies and Procedures 9 - Faculty Professional Activities Programs 10 - Faculty Directory, Officers and Committee Memberships 12 - Community Standards and Additional College Policy Statements |
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12.7 Statement on Consensual RelationsRelationships between a faculty member and a student should be considered ones of professional and client in which the initiation of sexual relationships is inappropriate and unethical. Relationships between a supervisor and an employee are also ones under which initiation of a sexual relationship is inappropriate and unethical. The power differential inherent in sexual relationship is inappropriate and unethical. The power differential inherent in faculty/student and supervisor/employee relationships compromises the subordinate's ability to freely decide about such relationships. The faculty member or supervisor exercises great power in giving praise or blame, grades, recommendations for further study or future employment. Under these circumstances, the subordinate's actual freedom of choice is greatly diminished even in relationships that appear to be based on mutual consent. Codes of ethics for most professional associations forbid the initiation of sexual relationships where professional/client or supervisor/employee relationships exist. Macalester College is opposed to and discourages sexual relationships between the referenced parties. College employees who engage in such relationships are risking serious legal claims against themselves and the College as well as the possibility of disciplinary action through campus procedures. |
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