Title IX

The person who is alleging a violation of the Gender-Based and Sexual Misconduct Policy.

The person whose actions are alleged to have violated the Gender-Based and Sexual Misconduct Policy.

• Any unwelcome, gender or sex-based verbal or physical conduct that is so severe, persistent or pervasive that it creates a hostile environment.
• It interferes with or limits someone's ability to participate in any GCU program and/or activity.
• Quid pro quo sexual harassment occurs when there are unwelcome sexual advances and rejection/refusal results in a negative educational or employment action.

Non-consensual sexual contact is any intentional sexual touching, however slight, with any object, by one person upon another, that is without consent and/or by force.

Sexual contact includes:

• Intentional contact with the breasts, buttocks, groin or genitals, or touching another with any of these body parts, or making another touch you or themselves with or on any of these body parts.
• Any intentional bodily contact in a sexual manner, though not involving contact with/of/by breasts, buttocks, groin, genitals, mouth or other orifice.

Non-consensual sexual intercourse is any sexual intercourse, however slight, with any object, by one person upon another, that is without consent and/or by force. 

Intercourse includes:

• Vaginal penetration by a penis, object, tongue or finger; anal penetration by a penis, object, tongue or finger; and oral copulation, no matter how slight the penetration or contact.
• Non-consensual sexual intercourse includes sexual assault, defined by ASRS 13-1406, as intentionally or knowingly engaging in sexual intercourse or oral sexual contact with any person without consent of such person.

Sexual exploitation occurs when someone takes non-consensual or abusive sexual advantage of another for their own benefit, or for the benefit of anyone other than the one being exploited, and the behavior does not otherwise constitute sexual misconduct.

Examples of sexual exploitation include, but are not limited to:

• Invasion of sexual privacy
• Prostituting another student
• Non-consensual videotaping or audiotaping of a sexual activity
• Non-consensual voyeurism of otherwise consensual sexual activity
• Engaging in voyeurism
• Knowingly transmitting an STI, STD or HIV
• Exposing one's genitals or breasts in non-consensual circumstances; inducing another to expose their genitals or breasts
• Sexually based stalking and/or bullying

• Domestic and Dating Violence: Any assault, violence or abuse between those in an intimate relationship to each other.
• Stalking: A course of conduct that is intentionally and knowingly directed towards another person, if that conduct would cause a reasonable person to fear for the person's safety or the death of that person or their immediate family.
• Bullying: A repeated and/or severe aggressive behavior that is likely to intimidate or intentionally hurt, control or diminish another person.