Congratulations to Vicky Drnek for being the first person to answer Thursday’s question correctly!
Thursday’s question was about the BOR’s Amorous Relationships policy.
True or False:
Q: A USG employee is prohibited from having a romantic or sexual relationship with any employee or student who the individual supervises, teaches, evaluates or whose terms or conditions of education or employment the individual could directly affect.
- True
- False
Correct Answer: A. True. The Board of Regents policy on Amorous Relationships specifically prohibits a USG employee, including a graduate teaching assistant, from having a romantic or sexual relationship with any student or USG employee who the individual supervises, teaches, or evaluates in any way. Additionally, a USG employee is prohibited from having a romantic or sexual relationship with any student or USG employee whose terms or conditions of education or employment the individual could directly affect.
The USG promotes an atmosphere of professionalism based upon mutual trust and our Core Values of Integrity, Excellence, Accountability and Respect. The professionalism and mutual trust of the workplace is compromised when employees who hold positions of unequal power engage in amorous relationships. The same is true for faculty members, to include graduate teaching assistants, who have amorous relationships with students they teach, evaluate or whose terms of education or employment they could directly affect. Such relationships create inherent conflicts of interest and lead to complaints of favoritism, decreased employee morale, mistrust by colleagues, complaints of undue access and in some cases, claims of sexual harassment.
A link to the BOR policy on Amorous Relationships is provided below:
Amorous Relationships: https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#n82186
If you have questions about the Amorous Relationships policy, you should feel free to ask your supervisor, the USG Office of Human Resources or the USG Office of Ethics and Compliance. (https://www.usg.edu/organizational_effectiveness/ethics_compliance).