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This university policy prohibits consensual amorous relationships between individuals when one individual teaches, manages, supervises, advises, or evaluates the other, and requires that the evaluative authority be removed. This applies to a current relationship or one that occurred within the last seven years.

Examples of consensual amorous relationships where an evaluative authority exists and would need to be removed, include, but are not limited to:

• professor and undergraduate student in the same academic department, program, major, or class 
• dean and graduate student in the same academic department, program, major, or class
• professor and graduate student in the same academic department, program, major, or class
• department chair and professor (in same department as chair)
• department or unit associate vice chancellor and assistant vice chancellor (in same department or unit as associate vice chancellor)
• supervisor and supervisee with whom the supervisor conducts the performance evaluation

An amorous relationship exists when two individuals mutually and consensually understand the relationship to be romantic or sexual in nature.

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The policy defines the following requirements:

• The amorous relationship must be disclosed, in person, by both consenting parties to the unit head (chair, dean, supervisor, or appointing authority of the person in the evaluative position).
• The evaluative authority must be removed.
• The unit head must inform OIEC in writing of the relationship and how the evaluative authority was removed.

The primary responsibility to disclose the amorous relationship rests with the person in the evaluative position, but both parties have a duty to disclose the conflict. If the individuals do not report the relationship, and the evaluative authority continues, OIEC may investigate a potential policy violation.