Professors and administrators approved revisions to the University's anti-harassment policy, defining nonsexual forms of harassment and describing the process for filing complaints during a faculty meeting yesterday.
After the meeting, Vice President for Development Brian McDonald briefed faculty members on the $1.75 billion capital campaign that is scheduled to launch this Friday. The campaign has raised $585 million since its unofficial "quiet phase" commenced in July 2005.
Changes to the University's anti-harassment policy include the expansion of protection measures beyond sexual harassment to any "unwelcome verbal or physical behavior" based on a person's race, color, sex, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, marital or domestic partnership status, religion, physical or mental disability, veteran status or sexual orientation.
All employees will be expected to complete a "computer training module that outlines responsibilities" and rights associated with dealing with harassment reports.
The revised text of the "Rules & Procedures of the Faculty" names faculty members designated to act as "harassment resolution facilitators," whom individuals can contact to discuss alleged harassment and seek advice about taking steps to process complaints.
"We do achieve a lot of clarity by moving forward [with these revisions] at this time," said Provost Christopher Eisgruber, who chairs the Institutional Equity Planning Group that reviewed existing harassment procedures. "I hope you will be generous with your time," he told faculty in attendance.
Eisgruber, who presided over the meeting because President Tilghman was in New York City accepting an award from Glamour magazine, later urged faculty to take part in the upcoming capital campaign by talking to possible donors.
McDonald presented faculty with updates on the campaign, which will end in June 2012, after each alumni class has had a major five-year Reunion.
McDonald said the University will not solicit donations from faculty, but he urged faculty to contribute to the campaign by continuing to provide quality education and inspiring alumni to give.
The funds raised will be used for a variety of initiatives, including the arts, neuroscience and the expansion of international opportunities for students, McDonald said.
Campaign administrators expect to receive the majority of funds from annual giving and the interest raised on the University's endowment.
"It's no secret that giving has been a remarkably important part of paying for Princeton," McDonald said. With a careful distribution of funds, "everybody in the University benefits from a successful campaign," he said.
Remembering Faculty
The faculty also memorialized four recently deceased professors: psychology professor emeritus Ronald Kinchla, astrophysics professor Bohdan Paczynski, music professor emeritus Harold Powers and geosciences professor Tony Dahlen.
Kinchla died last December of a heart condition. He joined Princeton's psychology department in 1969 and focused on engaging underclassmen in the department until he retired in 2003.
Paczynski, who died of brain cancer in April, was born in Poland and taught at several institutions in Warsaw before transferring to the University in 1982. He developed influential theories about the galaxy's dark matter, the energy of gamma ray bursts, gravitational lensing of stars and the existence of rocky planets like the Earth elsewhere in space.
Powers began his Princeton career as a graduate student in the early 1950s and received two Fulbright scholarships and a Rockefeller Grant. After joining the Princeton music department in 1973, Powers devoted himself to what he called "comparative musicology," which included the historical, theoretical and ethnic characteristics of various musical cultures.
Dahlen, who died of cancer in June, joined the department of geosciences in 1970 and rose to prominence as a theoretical geophysicist. His most influential seismological research centered on the waves caused by earthquakes and novel imaging methods depicting the flow of the Earth's mantle.
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