Any person associated with GSE who has a concern about possible or actual sexual, racial, or ethnic harassment in their academic or work lives in the School should avail themselves of the procedures outlined below. GSE procedures are designed to serve two needs:

1. To enforce University policy prohibiting sexual, racial, and ethnic harassment, thereby protecting the rights and opportunities of students, faculty, and staff.
2. To afford due process to those accused, and those accusing others, of sexual, racial and/or ethnic harassment.

Counseling Procedure
GSE offers informal, confidential counseling to any GSE student, staff member, or faculty member who suspects or feels her/himself to be harassed. The purposes of such counseling are:

1. To assist the individual seeking counseling in understanding and interpreting the situation about which she/he is concerned.
2. To provide information about the phenomenon of harassment, including policy and procedures to be followed, and to provide information as to additional University resources for support and counsel.
   The counseling is completely confidential.
3. The seeking of counseling is not regarded as a complaint.

GSE Harassment Counselors are:

• Theresa Singleton – theresas@gse.upenn.edu
• Larry Sipe – lsipe@gse.upenn.edu

Complaint Procedure

A four-member panel of Harassment Complaint Mediators (consisting of three faculty or staff members and one student, and three women and one man, at least one of whom is a member of a racial or ethnic minority) is designated by GSE to receive and deal with complaints of sexual, racial and/or ethnic harassment and empowered to intervene/discuss matter with respondents. The panel will meet as needed make recommendations, when deemed desirable, to the Dean.

1. Members of the panel are separate and distinct from GSE Harassment Counselors described above. No one individual will serve in both capacities at the same time.
2. A complaint may go directly to a member of the panel without first using the counseling procedure.

Any GSE student, staff member, or faculty member may institute an informal complaint through the following procedure:

1. The complainant first consults with any one of the Harassment Complaint Mediators.
2. The mediator will discuss the problem with the complainant, and then the respondent in an attempt to reach an agreeable resolution.
3. Discussion of the problem will be confidential among the three parties concerned—the complainant, mediator, and respondent.
4. The mediator will keep a confidential written record of the incident and provide copies thereof to the complainant and respondent. The written record will provide background if a formal complaint is made. Accumulation of data on complaints and respondents will determine whether a pattern of conduct by one person is present. All such records will be blind (i.e., without names) and will be submitted, with the complainant’s consent, to the University Ombudsman for retention. The written record will remain confidential if the complaint is resolved or if the
   
   • complainant decides not to make a formal complaint;
   • but if a mediator receives two complaints concerning the same respondent, the information will be shared with other members of the panel.
     
5. When the panel receives three or more informal complaints from different complainants about different incidents concerning the same respondent, the panel will hold a conference with the respondent.

The Harassment Complaint Mediators at GSE are:

• Lois MacNamara – loism@gse.upenn.edu
• Jessie Harper – jessieh@gse.upenn.edu
• Duane Thomas – duanet@gse.upenn.edu
• Noah Drezner – ndrezner@gse.upenn.edu
• Maureen Cotterill – maureenc@gse.upenn.edu