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relationship or from his or her fellow students or co-workers. A romantic relationship between any minor employee or student and an adult employee is presumptively deemed not to be a consensual relationship and constitutes sexual harassment.
5. Voluntary Consent Not a Defense:
Faculty members and supervisors exercise power over students and their subordinates, whether in giving or failing to give praise, criticism, performance evaluations, promotions or other similar actions. Romantic relationships between faculty members and students, or between supervisors and subordinates, can destroy necessary professional relationships. Voluntary consent by the student or subordinate is always suspect, given the asymmetric nature of the relationship. Moreover, such unprofession-al behavior, or even the appearance of such may affect other students, faculty, and staff, because it gives one student or subordinate the appearance, correctly or incorrectly, of power or favor at the expense of others.
** For more information on procedures please refer to the Merritt College Catalog 2021 - 2022.
STUDENT PRIVACY: FERPA
THE FAMILY EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS AND PRIVACY ACT
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), affords students certain rights with respect to the privacy of their education records. ** For more information, please refer to the Peralta Community College District website, under FERPA. http://web.peralta.edu/admissions/verificationsrelease-of-information/ferpa-2/
or the Merritt college website, under FERPA. http://www.merritt.edu/wp/financial-aid/wp-content/uploads/sites/333/2015/02/FERPA- Student-Privacy-Notice.pdf
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) guarantees that the academic records for students over 18 years old or postsecondary students of any age cannot be discussed with anyone except the student or authorized college personnel. PCCD only discloses personally identifiable information from an education record to appropriate parties in connection with an emergency if knowledge of the information is necessary to protect the health or safety of the student or other individuals. in the case of high school concurrent
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