Look and Supervise But Don't.....Well, Just Don't.

Attention University of Georgia faculty members, graduate students, lecturers and staff: if you’re teaching and supervising a student, you're prohibited from having an intimate relationship with that person.

It doesn’t matter if the student is a graduate, professional or undergraduate. There should be no dating or sexual contact while a “power relationship” is going on.

Anyone involved in or who starts a “dating or sexual relationship” with someone they’re supervising, say a spouse, has to disclose the relationship to his or her supervisor.

This is one of several changes contained in UGA’s new Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy. The policy was discussed and approved at Thursday’s meeting of UGA President Michael Adams’ cabinet.

Others changes include not guaranteeing complainants confidentiality; and directing harassment cases involving students to the Equal Opportunity Office instead of the student judiciary.

Officials also learned at the meeting and press briefing:

•  UGA has hired 100 tenured and tenure-track faculty members.    Some of these are filling positions that have gone unfilled for years, while others are new. Provost Jere Morehead said the university is still dealing with a faculty deficit, one brought about by the budget shortfall. There are still 75 to 100 positions that could be filled.

• President Adams said he’s “still studying” what to do with historic —whether to keep and repair it or demolish it and replace it with a larger, more efficient building. added their voices last week to the chorus of preservationists calling for the stucture to be saved.
• President Adams said that two months ago, he heard rumors that Gov. Deal might replace , a UGA faculty member, with someone from the State Environmental Protection Division. He said Deal was “within his rights” and that he hasn’t spoken to him about Stooksbury’s removal.