GIT Do's and Don'ts

Do

• Consider the GIT as a professional, educational experience.  All conduct should reflect behavior befitting professionals. For this reason, please treat each fellow student, faculty member, and administrative staff member as fellow professionals.
• Please address all PhDs—both male and female—as Dr. followed by their last name, unless asked by the person to do otherwise.  Other people should be addressed as Mr. or Ms. followed by their last name.  Of course, your fellow students should be addressed by their first name, or a nickname if they request it.
• Remarks of a personal nature about another person’s appearance are inappropriate.
• Maintain a friendly distance between yourself and the person with whom you are speaking.  Please do not touch another person unless they give you permission.
• Remain respectful towards those with whom you disagree.  This means keeping a moderate tone of voice, maintaining a neutral physical stance, and avoiding any use of profanity or threats towards a fellow student, faculty member, or administrative staff member.
• Say no to any requests to which you don’t want to agree.
• Report any unwanted behavior from fellow students to the student dean.  Report any problems with faculty to the dean of the GIT.

Don’t

• Discriminate in your behavior towards others based on their gender, race, religious beliefs, or other diversity markers.
• Ask another person for sexual or romantic contact.
• Borrow or use another student’s/faculty’s/staff’s items without first obtaining permission.
• Leave campus without a member of the local team.  Remember that you are in a foreign country and should take extra precautions to be safe.

Click here to download the GIT discrimination and harassment policy.