9.8 AMOROUS RELATIONSHIPS POLICY
9.8.1 Definition.
The term "faculty" or "faculty member" means any person who teaches and/or who holds faculty rank at Seattle Pacific University, including the President, the Vice President for Academic Affairs, and all persons who are directly or indirectly responsible to the Vice President for Academic Affairs. The term “Amorous Relationships” includes actions that suggest the existence of exclusive romantic interpersonal commitments. A faculty member who dated a student, for example, would be entering into an amorous relationship by virtue of the exclusivity of dating. Recognizing the possibility of sexual relations in such relationships, the University lifts up the Christian ideal of marriage and contends that all sexual intimacy shall be within the bounds of marriage.