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Illustration: Giant finger pressuring tiny manUCLA policy defines sexual harassment as follows: Sexual harassment is unwelcome advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects a person's employment or education, unreasonably interfered with a person's work or educational performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive working or learning environment.  In the interest of preventing sexual harassment, the University will respond to reports of any such conduct.

For more information about the kinds of behavior that amount to sexual harassment, try the following links.

Making a Report
If you wish to report sexual harassment at UCLA, go to Making a report for more information or contact the Sexual Harassment and Title IX Officer.


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