--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Contorversial? I thought that's the policy most colleges had. > > Sal > > > On Sep 26, 2005, at 8:45 PM, akasha_108 wrote: > > > At the University of California, Berkeley, a new controversial policy > > forbids "romantic or sexual" relationships between professors and > > their students. The policy took effect this past July on nine > > University of California campuses.
That article, primarily about Yale, did not explain well the "new" two year old UC policy. This article does a better job (and is funny). http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/74369 "In 2003, the University of California's nine campuses ruled to ban consensual relationshipsb between professors and any students they may "reasonably expect" to have future academic responsibility for; this includes any student known to have an interest in any area within the faculty member's expertise." This "future" view is far broader than the "current students" prohibitions that have been in effect for decades. And academic responsibility is broadly defined to include research oversight, and writing of letters of recommendations for grad school, etc. It appears to be that if a student is majoring or minoring in your department, or even is or has taken a class in your dept, or related field, they are "off limits". As she says, "But while engineering students may still pair-bond with professors of Restoration drama in California ... " ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/