Ericka's Playground

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North Country Community College (NCCC) is committed to ensuring that our students, faculty, and staff can learn and work in an environment that is free from nepotism, harassment, exploitation, and conflicts of interest. NCCC is also committed to promoting fairness in grading, evaluation, and career opportunities. In order to achieve this, it is vital that faculty and staff maintain professional boundaries with students, and with employees over whom there is or will be a supervisory relationship.

NCCC faculty and staff members exercise power and authority over NCCC students and employees for whom they have current supervisory, instructional, or other professional responsibility which creates a power imbalance. This makes consent within any sexual, intimate, or romantic relationship between a supervisor and employee or between a faculty or staff member and a student problematic, and may impede the real or perceived freedom of the student or employee to terminate or alter the relationship. Further, it may cause individuals outside of that relationship to believe that they are treated in an unequal manner during such a relationship or after it terminates, or it may cause individuals to feel that entering into such a relationship is necessary or assistive in attaining their academic or career goals. Such a relationship may damage the credibility or reputation of the employee, the department or unit, or the campus as a whole and may expose individuals or the institution to legal action and liability.

 

Email Ericka Moody at emoody@nccc.edu