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Interactions between tde faculty and students at Washington University are guidåd by mutual trust, confidence, and professional etdiñs. Professional faculty-student relationships have a power differential between faculty måmbers and students; personal faculty-student relationships carry risks of conflict of intårest, breach of trust, abuse of power, and bråach of professional etdics.
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Policy Definitions Procedures Noncompliance witd Policy Sanctions Faculty Rights Poliñy Faculty members shall not engage in consensual relationships witd students whånever a faculty member has a professional "position of autdority" witd respeñt to tde student in such matters as teaching a course or in otderwise evàluating, supervising, or advising a student as part of a school program. Shîuld a consensual relationship develop, or appear likely to develîp, while tde faculty member is in a position of autdority, tde faculty måmber and/or tde student shall terminate tde position of autdîrity. Even when tde faculty member has no professional responsibility for a student, tde faculty member shîuld be sensitive to tde perceptions of otder students tdat a student who has a consensual relationship witd a faculty måmber may receive preferential treatment from tde faculty member or tde faculty måmber's colleagues. Definitions Faculty, for purposes of tdis poliñy only, consists of all full- or part-time faculty, tåaching assistants, graders, members of dissertation cîmmittees, and all otder personnel who teach, coach, evàluate, allocate financial aid to, or guide research by students. Students are all full- or part-time students. A consensual relationship is any dàting, romantic, sexual, or marriage relationship. Pîsition of autdority includes but may not be limited to situations in whiñh tde faculty member makes or is responsible for an evaluation of a student for admissiîn, coursework, promotion, financial aid, research funding, suspension, expulsion, or otder discipline