Report Violations
Students and employees may submit anonymous reports of any ethics violations, code of conduct violations, fraud, discrimination, or unsafe working conditions. For sexual harassment, make a Title IX complaint on the Title IX website.
Qualified Reporting Categories
Academic Affairs
- Hazing: The demeaning of a student through physical or mental means for the purpose of initiations in, or acceptance into a group.
- Terrorism: The threat to persons or property with the intent of causing damage or physical harm.
Accounting and Financial
- Fraud: The intentional misrepresentation or concealment of information in order to deceive, mislead, or acquire something of value. A fraud is an intentional deception perpetrated to secure an unfair gain. (Examples include: Violation of Policy, Sabotage)
- Theft / Embezzlement: The act of stealing; specifically: the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it. To appropriate (as property entrusted to one’s care) fraudulently to one’s own use (Examples include: bookkeeping errors, misapplication of funds, and mishandling of cash)
Athletics
- Sexual Misconduct: The making of unwanted and offensive sexual advances or of sexually offensive remarks or acts, by associates or superiors.
Human Resources
- Discrimination: Treating someone unfavorably on the basis of a protected personal characteristic (race, sex, gender etc.), or imposing an unreasonable condition that disadvantages a person because of their protected personal characteristic. Also includes failing to provide reasonable accommodation to persons with disabilities
- Sexual Harassment: The making of unwanted and offensive sexual advances or of sexually offensive remarks or acts, especially by one in a superior or supervisory position or when acquiescence to such behavior is a condition of continued employment, promotion, or satisfactory evaluation.
- Violence or Threat: An expression of the intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage to a person or their property. (Examples include: direct, veiled, conditional, violent)
Risk and Safety Matters
- Unsafe Working Conditions: Failure to meet requirements needed to perform all duties in a secure environment. Potential areas of harm. (Examples include: environmental damage, OSHA, EPA, supervisor directive, poor housekeeping)