is a commitment.
It is a commitment to communicating and
acting with integrity and respect for others.
Key Resources on Campus

Sexual Violence Response (24/7/365)
Call (212) 854-4357 (HELP) to connect with survivor advocates for trauma-informed rape crisis/anti-violence support, including accompaniment to the hospital, police, or to other resources. SVR also offers prevention education.

Counseling Services
Get trauma support and short-term counseling, referral for ongoing mental health services, and/or introduction to student support groups.

Public Safety (24/7/365)
Call (212) 854-5555 when you need emergency response, security escorts or assistance with law enforcement.

Gender-Based Misconduct Office
Receive help in seeking academic and other accommodations, and guidance through the complaint, investigation and adjudication process.
For more resources, click here.
Welcome to the Sexual Respect Website
Here you can find help whenever you need it as well as resources and information about sexual respect in the Columbia community.
Terms and Definitions
Affirmative Consent
Affirmative consent is a knowing, voluntary and mutual decision among all participants to engage in sexual activity. The definition of consent does not vary base on a participant's sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
Confidential/Non-Confidential Resources
Confidential resources do not share identifying information with anyone. Non-confidential resources disclose information only when necessary to get students additional services or to protect community safety.
Bystander Intervention
Being a prosocial bystander involves being aware of events happening around you and learning how to step in safely or seek help from others.
Sexual Harassment
If you experience unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual contact, and other unwelcome verbal, physical, or visual conduct of sexual nature, this may be sexual harassment.
Gender-Based Harassment
If you experience acts of aggression, intimidation, stalking, or hostility based on gender or gender stereotyping, this may be gender-based harassment.
Dating Violence and Domestic Violence
These forms of relationship violence both include the use or threat of physical or sexual violence. It can involve a single act or a pattern of these threats and behavior that seeks to establish power and control over another person.
Sexual Assault
Any intentional sexual contact or intercourse without a person's affirmative consent.
Stalking
A course of unwanted attention that is repeated or obsessive, directed toward an individual or a group and that is reasonably likely to cause alarm, fear or substantial emotional distress
News
Update to the Gender-Based Misconduct Policy Provision on Sanctions
The Gender-Based Misconduct Policy has been updated to clarify the scope of sanctions involving “removal from leadership/supervisory positions within the University community.” This sanction can be applied to restrict a student from serving as a teaching assistant, course assistant, and/or grader either for a limited period of time or throughout the student’s affiliation with the University.
Why Sexual Respect?
The Sexual Respect Initiative is about understanding and responding to the links among us and doing what we can to create change, not just in this moment but throughout the year and beyond.
Bwog Interviews Title IX Coordinator Marjory Fisher
"Bwog reporter Nikki Shaner-Bradford interviews Columbia’s newest Title IX Coordinator Marjory Fisher on the various aspects of her exciting and important position."
Affirming protection for transgender students and other Columbia community members
At a time when the federal government has withdrawn important protections for transgender students, it is ever more important to reiterate Columbia’s own policy: All students, faculty, staff and visitors should use whichever restroom is most consistent with their gender identity.