Preventing Sexual Harassment

This page is a resource for students, employees, and third parties to learn more about our colleges' Title IX Sexual Harassment/Discrimination Policy and the protections under the 2020 Title IX regulatory changes. If you have experienced or witnessed an act of sexual harassment, discrimination, or dating/partner violence, you are encouraged to report the incident to your college's Title IX/504 Coordinator.

Immediate Assistance

If you are in an emergency situation, make sure you are in a safe place and call 911. For non-emergencies, contact your college's Title IX/504 Coordinator, Department of Public Safety, or local law enforcement.

Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Policy

The policy of the Maricopa County Community College District is to provide an educational, employment, and business environment free of sexual violence, unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct or communications constituting Sexual Harassment as prohibited by state and federal law.

Discrimination under this Policy is an unequal treatment of a student based on the student’s actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, or pregnancy. This Policy prohibits Sexual Harassment and Discrimination in any college education program or activity, which means all academic, educational, extracurricular, athletic, and other programs.

Sexual Harassment

The 2020 Title IX Regulations define sexual harassment broadly to include any of three types of misconduct that — on the basis of sex — jeopardize equal access to education and the educational programs/activities that Title IX is designed to protect. These three types of misconduct are:

  • any instance of quid pro quo harassment by a school's employee;
  • any unwelcome conduct that a reasonable person would find so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it denies a person equal educational access;
  • any instance of sexual assault (as defined in the Clery Act), dating violence, domestic violence, or stalking as defined in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). For definitions of sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and stalking, see the Title IX Sexual Harassment Policy.