Non-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity

• Consideration of an applicant’s Protected Class Status as a negative factor in deciding
whether to offer the applicant a job interview.

• Giving prohibited consideration to an individual’s Protected Class Status in deciding
whether to offer an employee a promotion.

• Requiring that members of Protected Class Statuses meet higher standards for
advancement, promotion, or grading than employees who are not in Protected Class
Statuses.
• Denying a student or employee the opportunity to participate in an educational
activity because of his or her Protected Class Status.

• Verbal abuse, offensive innuendo or derogatory words or slurs or name-calling, taunting, stereotyping, threats, intimidation, epithets, or comments based upon or motivated by the person’s Protected Class Status;

• Threats or intimidation, whether actual or implied, based on or motivated by the person’s Protected Class Status;

• Bullying based on or motivated by the person’s Protected Class Status;

Bullying is the unwelcome, aggressive and repeated use of
intimidation to force a more vulnerable person to do what the bully
desires or to harm a more vulnerable person. Bullying includes oral or
written derogatory name-calling, taunting, and threatening harm;
social actions of spreading false rumors to damage a reputation, and
causing extreme embarrassment; and physical actions of hitting,
kicking, spitting, tripping, pushing down, rude hand gestures, and
injuring or taking another’s property.

• Doxing based on or motivated by the person’s Protected Class Status;

Doxing is the publication through any format (e.g., oral, written, or
online) of a person’s or group’s personally identifiable information in
an attempt to incite harassment or harm against the identified person or
group. Doxing involves, but is not limited to, reporting or posting
personal information such as employer information, place of
employment, place of worship, place of personal residence, or personal
contact information with intent to exact revenge, impose punishment,
or obtain justice through use of the information by third parties.

• Hazing based on or motivated by the person’s Protected Class Status;

Hazing occurs when a student or employee endangers the health or
safety or another student or employee or physically injures another
student or employee in connection with or for the purpose of initiation,
admission, or affiliation with a student organization or as a condition
of continued membership in such organization. Further, hazing occurs
even if the endangered or injured student or employee participates
voluntarily in the hazing activity.

• Negative stereotyping based on or motivated by the person’s Protected Class Status;

• Physical abuse, such as hitting, kicking, spitting, tripping, displaying signs, rude hand gestures, and injuring or taking another’s property, based on or motivated by the
person’s Protected Class Status

• Obscene gestures or leering based upon or motivated by the person’s Protected Class
Status;

• Written or graphic materials or objects, pictures, or other media placed on or circulated within University premises (e.g., walls, bulletin boards, computer terminals, vehicles, email, text messages, etc.) or on social media that show hostility or aversion toward a person or group based on or motivated by Protected Class Status or which create a hostile working / learning environment based on or motivated by a person’s Protected Class Status;

• Cyber or electronic harassment or stalking based on or motivated by a person’s Protected Class Status