If you or someone you know has experienced sexual assault, call 504-920-9900 to speak privately with someone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Or, fill out our reporting form.
To learn more about the changes to the University Sexual Misconduct/Title IX resolution processes, please visit our update page.
Consent is an agreement between people to engage in sexual activity. This agreement is:
Sexual Violence refers collectively to sexual assault, stalking, sexual harassment, and intimate partner violence.
Sexual Misconduct is how the Code of Student Conduct refers to acts of sexual violence when they are committed by students against any person, whether the conduct occurs on-campus or off-campus.
Sexual Assault is sexual contact or sexual intercourse without affirmative consent. Sexual contact is intentional sexual touching with any object or body part by a person on another person.
Intimate Partner Violence, including dating violence and domestic violence, is any act of violence or threatened act of violence that occurs between individuals who are involved or have been involved in a sexual, dating, spousal, domestic, or other intimate relationship.
Sexual Harassment is any unwelcome sexual advance, request for sexual favors, or other unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, whether verbal, non-verbal, graphic, or physical.
Stalking occurs when a person engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific person under circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to fear bodily injury or to experience substantial emotional distress.
Sexual Exploitation is an act attempted or committed by a person for sexual gratification, financial gain, or other advancement through the abuse or exploitation of another person's sexuality.
Bystander Intervention is a strategy for prevention, interruption, and de-escalation of violence.
Confidential Resources will not share a victim’s disclosure of sexual violence unless the victim gives permission.
Private Resources will only share the victim’s disclosure of sexual violence with other Tulane staff to ensure that the victim receives the support they need.