Prestigious University, Havard has introduced a ban on relationships between professors and students. The ban was introduced after considering how "power dynamics can contribute to sexual harassment".
A committee which drafted the guidelines concluded the university needed to strengthen its language on "relationships of unequal status".
Last May, the institution appeared on a US government list of 55 institutions which had allegedly mishandled harassment complaints.
Alison Johnson, a history professor who led the committee which helped revise the guidelines, told the Associated Press news agency: "We wanted to emphasize that the central characteristic of any relationship between a professor and an undergraduate in the College should be pedagogical."
With about 2,400 faculty members and about 6,700 undergraduate students, Harvard University is not the only higher education college in the US to introduce such a ban. Other Universities such as Yale did so in 2010 and the University of Connecticut in 2013
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