Welcome
UCSB is committed to creating and maintaining a community where all persons who participate in University programs and activities can work and learn together in an atmosphere free of all forms of harassment, exploitation, or intimidation. The University established the Sexual Harassment Prevention Education Program (SHPEP) in 1979 in an effort to address employees concerns and to reduce sexual harassment on campus. Today, SHPEP provides mandatory prevention training to all supervisors and faculty members. In addition, SHPEP educates non-supervisors and students on sexual harassment issues and resolution.

The University defines sexual harassment as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects a person’s employment or education, unreasonably interferes with a person’s work or educational performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive working or learning environment.

SHPEP is an educational program. If you feel you have been subject to unwanted behavior of a sexual nature, you may contact a Sexual Harassment Advisor or the Sexual Harassment & Title IX Office. They will work with you in helping end any unwanted behaviors that you may be experiencing.

For more information about the program, please contact the coordinator, Carol Sauceda, at (805) 893-3778 or email carol.sauceda@sa.ucsb.edu.

Required Prevention Training
California Assembly Bill 1825, approved in 2004, mandates that beginning January 2005, all supervisors are required to complete a two-hour sexual harassment prevention training every two years. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) defines supervisor as any individual having the authority to “hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or the responsibility to direct them, or to adjust their grievances or effectively to recommend that action … if the exercise of that authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment.” This applies to students as well as academic and professional staff.

Faculty are required to take the training because of their supervisory responsibilities, not because of their teacher-student relationship.

If you have questions about who is required to take the training, please contact the Director of Sexual Harassment Prevention and Diversity Education, Carol Sauceda for clarification).

Supervisors and faculty have the option of completing this training requirement by attending a two-hour instructor-led training or completing the two-hour on-line training.

On-line Training
The next on-line sexual harassment prevention training is scheduled to be released in the Fall of 2008. The two-hour interactive program is being designed for UC staff and features two versions (administrative and academic). It will include UC work scenarios. The training does not need to be completed in one two-hour sitting, rather users can log out and return numerous times. All Supervisors and faculty who are required to complete the training in 2008 will receive an email from UCOP in late Fall with instructions on how to access the on-line training.

In-Person Training
SHPEP provides two hours of interactive training for UCSB staff and faculty. To register for an in-person session, visit our registration page. Please see the attached schedule for a list of the next scheduled classes.

If you want more information before deciding which training to take, visit our FAQ page.

We no longer offer a combination of on-line and in-person training. If you completed the New Media on-line training and still need to take a one-hour in-person session, contact Carol Sauceda for more information.