Unlawful Harassment Prevention
In addition to sexual harassment, Unlawful Harassment Prevention on Campus covers other types of illegal harassment based on protected classes, designed specifically for a campus environment. This course is also available in a Sexual Harassment-only version, as well as specific versions for faculty, staff, supervisors and students.
Harassment Prevention Training, Designed Just For Campus Environments
Our Unlawful Harassment Prevention on Campus courses go beyond sexual harassment training to provide harassment training on other types of illegal harassment based on protected classes. The language and scenarios used in our higher education harassment training are designed specifically for a campus environment. This ensures that the harassment training will be extremely relevant to your learners which, increases retention of key harassment prevention concepts.
Colleges and Universities must be committed to maintaining a campus environment free of unlawful harassment, intimidation, and exploitation - or face serious legal consequences. Harassment prevention training on key harassment concepts and policies will reinforce that sexual or other unlawful harassment of any member of the school’s community will not be tolerated, and it can also provide an affirmative defense in the event of a harassment claim or lawsuit.
What Sets Our Online Harassment Training Apart?
Workplace Answers’ unlawful harassment prevention training utilizes graphic novellas to highlight harassment issues specific to higher education settings. These explain protected categories, include the Genetic Information Discrimination Act (GINA), cover the new Supreme Court ruling extending the prohibitions on retaliation, and explore emerging issues like electronic harassment. Our online harassment training uses recent examples of real-life higher education harassment cases to help learners retain the information and understand how important harassment prevention training is. We even include tips to help faculty and staff recognize and intervene when they see behaviors indicative of student-on-student harassment.
Workplace Answers provides several higher education specific unlawful harassment training courses that will help cultivate a campus environment free of sexual harassment and unlawful harassment because of race, color, religion, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age, sex, marital status, citizenship status, military service status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, medical condition, disability and/or any other status protected by law. We offer the following harassment training versions to ensure that the information and scenarios used in our unlawful harassment training are tailored to the learner’s role at your institution:
- Unlawful Harassment Training for Higher Education Faculty
- Unlawful Harassment Training for Higher Education Staff
- Unlawful Harassment Training for Higher Education Student Employees
Unlawful Harassment Concepts Covered:
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended
– prohibits harassment based on race, color, sex, religion and national origin
- Protected classes under federal law
– definitions of discrimination, harassment and retaliation
– interactive feature present both common & unusual state-specific protected categories
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
– prohibits employment discrimination based on age, 40 or older
- Protected class status:
– Association
– Perception
– Cultural Traits or Apparel
– Affiliation
- Pregnancy Discrimination Act
- Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended [ADAAA/ADA]
- Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act [GINA]
