Consensual Sexual Relations Policy

Antioch reaffirms that it is the policy and intent of the institution to establish and maintain an environment that is conducive to its educational mission. The relationships between Antioch University McGregor employees, who are responsible for maintaining a supportive learning environment, and students are crucial to the learning process. Consensual sexual relationships, which add an additional role to the teaching-learning functions, create the potential to distort or inhibit the learning environment for the student involved as well as for other students. This is particularly true when either party is in an actual or potential position to evaluate the other's academic or professional performance or to exercise judgment in the application of policy or procedure.

Therefore, Antioch University McGregor requires that its faculty, staff, and administrators refrain from initiating or entering into a consensual sexual relationship with any student over whom they have an evaluative position (i.e., where one of them has, or could have, the responsibility to teach, evaluate, supervise, or advise the other). Because it is so crucial to maintain appropriate educational role boundaries, Antioch considers it a potentially serious breach of professional ethics if a faculty, administrator, or staff member initiates or entered into such a relationship with a student. These standards of conduct also apply to committee members and to instructors/evaluators involved in any student's degree (or non-degree) program of study.