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The following is a brief list of the potential pitfalls of relationships between students and faculty, supervisees and supervisor.
- The relationship often involves one person exerting power over another.
- Seduction of a much younger person, rather than consent, may be involved.
- Conflict of interest issues often arise when the professor/supervisor has the ability to:
- determine grades
- give or refuse recommendations
- hire or fire the student/employee
- conduct performance evaluations
- award raises or merit increases
- substantively influence colleagues for or against the student/employee
- withhold credit for a project
- award financial scholarships or academic honors
- The potential for abuse and exploitation is high because the playing field is not level.
- The potential for retaliation is strong when a relationship ends.
- Other people may be affected and claim favoritism.
The Faculty Code of Conduct prohibits faculty from “engaging in a romantic or sexual relationship with any student for whom a faculty member has, or should expect to have in the future, academic instructional, evaluative, or supervisory responsibility.”
Read the Faculty Code of Conduct (APM 015) at http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/apm-015.pdf.
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