Harvard University has introduced a total ban on
relationships between professors and students.
Staff said they introduced the ban after considering how
"power dynamics can contribute to sexual harassment".
Harvard's previous ban on staff-students affairs only
applied if couples were in the same class.
A committee which drafted the guidelines concluded the
university needed to strengthen its language on
"relationships of unequal status".
Harvard University is not the only higher education college
in the US to introduce such a ban.
Its rival Yale did so in 2010, as did the University of
Connecticut in 2013.
Based in Cambridge near Boston, Harvard has about
2,400 faculty members and about 6,700 undergraduate
students
Last May the institution appeared on a US government list
of 55 institutions which had allegedly mishandled
harassment complaints.
In an email, Alison Johnson, a history professor who led
the committee which helped revise the guidelines, told the
Associated Press news agency: "We wanted to emphasize
that the central characteristic of any relationship between a
professor and an undergraduate in the College should be
pedagogical."

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Relationship of "UNEQUAL STATUS"

Are university students kids? What is wrong with this world?