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Reporting Sexual Harassment

 
Any person may report sex discrimination, including sexual harassment (whether or not the person reporting is the person alleged to be the victim of conduct that could constitute sex discrimination or sexual harassment), in person, by mail, by telephone, or by electronic mail, using the contact information listed for the Title IX coordinator, or by any other means that results in the Title IX coordinator receiving the person’s verbal or written report.
 
Contact Information for the Title IX coordinator:

Zauyah Waite
Title IX coordinator and VP of student affairs/ dean of students
Merrill Student Life Center, 2nd floor
Hampshire College, 893 West Street, SA, Amherst, MA 01002
zwSA@hampshire.edu
o: 413.559.5412

online report form

Such a report may be made at any time (including during non-business hours) by using the telephone number, online report form, or electronic mail address, or by mail to the office address listed for the Title IX coordinator.
 
Confidential Reporting
 
The following Officials will provide privacy, but not confidentiality, upon receiving a report of conduct prohibited under this policy:
The following Officials will provide confidentiality:

Responsible Employee

It is important to understand the different responsibilities of Hampshire College Employees. Every Hampshire College Employee is designated as a “Responsible Employee”, a “Confidential Employee” or a “Private Employee.”

A “Responsible Employee” is any Employee who is not a Confidential or Private Employee.  A Responsible Employee is required to immediately report to the College’s Title IX Coordinator all relevant details (obtained directly or indirectly) about Sexual Misconduct Violations that involve a College Student or Employee as a Complainant or Respondent, including dates, times, locations, and names of parties and witnesses.  Responsible Employees include Resident Advisors, Community Facilitators, Teaching Assistants, EMTs, and all other student-employees when disclosures are made to any of them in their capacities as employees. 

Responsible Employees are not required to report information disclosed (1) at public awareness events (e.g., “survivor speak-outs”, candlelight vigils, protests, or other public forums in which students may disclose Sexual Harassment; collectively “Public Awareness Events”; or (2) during an individual’s participation as a subject in an Institutional Review Board- approved human subjects research protocol (“IRB Research”). The College may provide information about Title IX rights and about available College and community resources and support at Public Awareness Events, however, and Institutional Review Boards may, in appropriate cases, require researchers to provide such information to all subjects of IRB research.