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 (hyperlink to bookmark A) 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.

SHPE is an educational program. If you feel you have been subject to unwanted behavior of a sexual nature, please contact the Sexual Harassment & Title IX Office. They will help put an immediate end to any unwanted behaviors that you may be experiencing.

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

Required Prevention Training

California Assembly Bill 1825(PDF) requires all UCSB supervisors and faculty to attend sexual harassment prevention training by January 1, 2006. 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. (If you are unsure if you posses the authority described above, contact Carol Sauceda for clarification).

Supervisors and faculty can choose to take two-hour in-person training or two-hour on-line training.

On-line Training

UCOP released a new on-line training called Workplace Answers. This is a two-hour interactive program designed for UC staff. It features two versions (administrative and academic) and has been customized to 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. Supervisors and faculty received an email from Workplace Answers on October 19 with instructions on how to access the on-line training. If you did not receive this email and would like to access to the on-line training, please send your name, email address, department and employee identification number to Carol Sauceda

In-Person Training

The SHPE program provides two hours of interactive training for UCSB staff. We offer two versions of this training (supervisors of professional staff and supervisors of student staff). Faculty are required to take the training because of their supervisory responsibilities, not because of their teacher-student relationship. Therefore, faculty members should register for the training for professional staff. To register for an in-person session, visit our registration page.

If you need 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.