Faculty member CURRENT romantic or sexual relationship with a graduate student over whom they have direct or indirect professional responsibility - unmanageable conflict PRIOR romantic or sexual relationship with a student over whom they have direct or indirect professional responsibility -manageable conflict -disclosure to Dean and Provost and development of management plan ANY romantic or sexual relationship with an undergraduate student - prohibited Violations handled through Rice University Policy no. 201 Faculty member – all those faculty and other university employees whose activities involve teaching, advising, mentoring, or coaching students. These shall include tenured and tenure-track faculty, non-tenure-track faculty, athletic coaches and staff, administrators with faculty appointments, and Masters and residential associates of the colleges. A faculty member is presumed to have direct “professional responsibility” over any graduate or undergraduate student who is enrolled in his or her class, or for whom one has any other form of evaluative responsibility. A faculty member is presumed to have indirect “professional responsibility” over any graduate student enrolled in a department or program in which the faculty member holds an appointment or teaches courses at the graduate level. CURRENT POLICY

Faculty member - all those faculty and other university employees whose activities involve teaching, advising, mentoring, or coaching students. These shall include tenured and tenure-track faculty, non-tenure-track faculty, athletic coaches and staff, administrators with faculty appointments, post-doctoral scholars, and Masters and residential associates of the colleges A faculty member is presumed to have direct “professional responsibility” over any graduate or undergraduate student who is enrolled in his or her class, or for whom one has any other form of evaluative responsibility. A faculty member is presumed to have indirect “professional responsibility” over any graduate student enrolled in a department or program in which the faculty member holds an appointment or teaches courses at the graduate level. PROPOSED CHANGE #1 For post-docs engaged in teaching, advising, mentoring, or coaching students this is a clarification that they already are covered by this policy as university employees. For post-docs not engaged in such activities, this would be a new set of guidelines. It would impact romantic relations with undergraduates only for such post-docs as they would not have any direct or indirect professional responsibilities over students. Faculty member CURRENT romantic or sexual relationship with a graduate student over whom they have direct or indirect professional responsibility - unmanageable conflict PRIOR romantic or sexual relationship with a student over whom they have direct or indirect professional responsibility - manageable conflict [disclosure and development of management plan] ANY romantic or sexual relationship with an undergraduate student - prohibited

STUDENTS CURRENT romantic or sexual relationship with a student over whom they have direct or indirect professional responsibility - unmanageable conflict PRIOR romantic or sexual relationship with a student over whom they have direct or indirect professional responsibility -manageable conflict -disclosure to cognizant faculty supervisor, department chair and/or program director and development of management plan Violations handled through Code of Student Conduct Faculty member - all those faculty and other university employees whose activities involve teaching, advising, mentoring, or coaching students. These shall include tenured and tenure-track faculty, non-tenure-track faculty, athletic coaches and staff, administrators with faculty appointments, post-doctoral scholars, and Masters and residential associates of the colleges A faculty member or a student engaged in teaching or mentoring functions is presumed to have direct “professional responsibility” over any graduate or undergraduate student who is enrolled in his or her class, or for whom one has any other form of evaluative responsibility. A faculty member is presumed to have indirect “professional responsibility” over any graduate student enrolled in a department or program in which the faculty member holds an appointment or teaches courses at the graduate level. PROPOSED CHANGE #2 Guidelines for students who have professional responsibility over other students. Indirect professional responsibility is not defined for student mentors or teachers.