A school, like any other organization, is concerned with providing an appropriate environment for work and learning. This means, for one thing, protection from sexual harassment. Many educational institutions are finding the need to develop or fine-tune existing policies in this area to communicate that their organizations won't tolerate abuse of authority or position in obtaining sexual favors.
As the grievance officer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I participated on a team that worked on refining this school's sexual harassment policy approximately two years ago. Because the school is both an employer and an institution of higher learning, implementing and …