December 10, 2020
In November 2017, President Pollack asked the University Assembly (UA) to take a holistic look at the Campus Code of Conduct. The president encouraged the UA to work with her Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate to examine specific substantive concerns, such as the definition of harassment, and to address the overriding concerns that the Code is too legalistic, punitive, unreadable and, in some cases, even inconsistent.
The following spring (of 2018), a set of recommendations from thePresidential Task Force on Campus Climate further spoke to the need for significant modifications to Code. The president again asked the UA to undertake a comprehensive rewrite of the Code in order to address the Task Force recommendations.