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Student Services

Reporting Harassment/Misconduct

Harassment is defined as any conduct directed toward an individual or group based on race, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, gender, identity or expression, mental or physical disability, or veteran status, and severe enough so as to deny or limit a person’s ability to participate in or fully benefit from the University's educational and employment environments, or activities, or severe enough that it created an intimidating, offensive or hostile environment.

Per policy 03.004 any member of the ÌìÌÃÄñÏÈÉú Community who receives a complaint of sexual harassment or misconduct from a student or other Community member is required to report the behavior. The name of the alleged perpetrator is not needed to make this report if the student does not supply the name. Contact Office of Equity and Civil Rights Compliance at 740.593.9140 or 740.593.9168.

Students or staff of the ÌìÌÃÄñÏÈÉú Hearing, Speech and Language Clinic should report any instance of harassment to a supervisor, or to the Coordinator of Clinical Services, or to the Associate Director, Department of HSLS, or to the Office of institutional Equity, as soon as possible following the incident.

Upon receiving a compliant, the staff person will:

  1. Care for the student
  2. Ensure the student is safe
  3. Provide non-judgmental support
  4. Do not ask for specific details of the incident – allow the students to decide what to disclose
  5. Explain your duty to report, do not promise confidentiality
  6. Connect students to other resources:
    1. Counseling and Psychological Services: 740.593.1616
    2. *Campus Care
    3. *Survivor Advocacy Program: 740.597.7233 (after 5 pm crisis hotline only)
    4. ÌìÌÃÄñÏÈÉú Police Department: 740.593.7233
    5. : 740.593.2629
    6. Office of the Dean of Students: 740.593.1800
  7. The HSLS program follows the policy and procedures put in place by OHIO University which is overseen by University Civil Rights Compliance in the Office of Executive Vice President and Provost. Detailed information about Policy 40.001 can be found under the tab entitled DISCRIMINATION. Detailed information about ÌìÌÃÄñÏÈÉú’s policies prohibiting discrimination and harassment, and for a description of ÌìÌÃÄñÏÈÉú’s grievance procedures, please visit the Office of Civil Rights Compliance.

*Revealing a confidential resource is not required to report specific incidents without student permission. See the Graduate Catalog and the Student Handbook for additional information.

Complaints and Resolving Problems

Undergraduate and graduate education is intensive and can be stressful at times, and conflicts with faculty, peers, and others may occasionally happen. We expect you will make efforts to resolve interpersonal conflicts directly with the involved person. Often, an amicable resolution can be found. We strive for our students to receive fair and equitable treatment.

At times, the disposition of your issue or concern may not be satisfactory to you and you may seek the advice of others. Your advisor, the HSLS Director, the Coordinator of Professional Programs, and the Coordinator of Hearing, Speech and Language Clinic Services are all available to assist you. In addition, HSLS has a Student Conflict Resolution Committee. The Committee’s primary role is to attempt to resolve a student’s conflict with a faculty or staff person. Steps to resolving the conflict are specified in the policy, as are the procedures for forming the committee. These can be found in the graduate student handbook in a display stand by the student organization mailbox at the end of the hallway from the HSLS entrance. If the conflict cannot be resolved by this means or through the office of the HSLS Director, it will be referred to the Dean of the College of Health Sciences and Professions for continued pursuit and resolution.

Depending on your concern, you may wish to contact the following:


501 Baker University Center Athens Campus
740.593.2627

Chair, Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-language Pathology American Speech-Language-Hearing Association,
2200 Research Boulevard, #310
Rockville, MD 20850

Submit any complaint to the CAA in writing, following their .

Contacts with all of these individuals and offices can be made in confidence.

The HSLS program follows the policy and procedures put in place by ÌìÌÃÄñÏÈÉú which is overseen by University Civil Rights Compliance in the Office of Executive Vice President and Provost.

Detailed information about ÌìÌÃÄñÏÈÉú’s policies prohibiting discrimination and harassment, and for a description of ÌìÌÃÄñÏÈÉú’s grievance procedures, please visit the Office of Civil Rights Compliance.

ECRC Grievance Resolution Procedure on how to file a complaint: