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New Students Orientation August 2014 Semester

AIT NO HARASSMENT

POLICY

by Dr. Donyaprueth Krairit

Chair, Gender Equality Committee

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• Zero tolerance to sexual harassment

• Student handbook: Harassment policy

• Gender equality committee

• Gender training for all faculty/ staff members

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What is sexual harassment?

AIT Harassment Policy

• Sexual harassment includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other physical, oral or written conduct or visual manifestations of a sexual nature

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• acceptance of sexual advances or invitations is made or implied as a condition for education or employment; or

• rejection of sexual advances, requests or other sexual manifestations affects grades or performance evaluation or any academic or personnel decisions that concern the recipient; or

• unwelcome sexual advances or other sexual manifestations, interfere with the recipient's work or create an offensive, intimidating or hostile employment, academic or residential environment.

What is sexual harassment?

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• Harassment by telephone• Harassment by email• Harassment by behaviour• Need extra sensitivity in a multi-

cultural environment like AIT.

Examples…..

• Need extra sensitivity in a multi-cultural environment like AIT.

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• Intimidation• picking on and dominating individuals or

groups through fear; • bullying physically or by threatening or

giving humiliating remarks, asking unwelcome questions or making unwelcome comments about a person's personal or professional life

Other forms of harassment

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• Invasion of privacy• unwarranted inquiries into or

interference in people’s family and private lives,

• accessing other people's private letters, faxes, e-mail, telephone calls, or other forms of message manipulation;

• destroying information belonging to others;

• prank or malicious, false or anonymous communications;

• the deliberate and malicious spreading of rumors.

Other forms of harassment (2)

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Chair, Gender Equality Committee Dr. Donyaprueth Krairit (ext. 5666)

• Deans• SERD: Prof. Chettiyappan Visvanathan (ext.

6074)• SET: Prof. Voratas Kachitvichyanukul (ext.

5535)• SOM: Dr. Donyaprueth Krairit (ext. 5654)

• Head, Student Office• Ms. Laarni Roa (ext. 6325)• Coordinator, Student Affairs Unit• Ms. Joan Carla C. Gonzales (ext. 5006 or

5064)

Counselors

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• Consultation• Direct communication• Third party intervention

Informal procedure

• Confidential• No reprisal• No false accusation

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• Formal grievance procedures• Written statement to the counsellors

Formal procedures

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•These are all needed to create a• Fair• Tolerant• Sensitive• Unprejudiced• Supportive and • Democratic

environment in AIT