The term "complainant" refers to an individual alleged to have been harmed in a report of SVSH. Understanding the affiliations of complainants in SVSH reports made to OPHD provides important insight into the range of SVSH harms experienced across the diverse campus community.
In many instances, OPHD does not receive enough information, in a given report, to determine whether a complainant is affiliated with UC Berkeley and further, if they are a student, staff, or faculty member. However, in many instances the information is available, and is presented in Figure 8.
Type of SVSH harm reported varies considerably by complainant affiliation. As Figure 8 shows, sexual harassment was by far the most common alleged form of harm for staff complainants. Sexual harassment was also, but by a much smaller margin the most common form of harm reported for student complainants; sexual assault also constituted a sizable proportion of reports.