Discrimination Policies
Discrimination Policies
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Safe Zone Project
The Gender and Sexuality Center provides a 2-hour workshop that trains participants in basic LGBTQ+ issues and how to be an ally. This program is geared towards people outside of the LGBTQ+ community in the hopes of making URI campus a safer space. Anyone from students, faculty, staff, and community members are encouraged to sign up.
The Safe Zone Project also provides advanced tracks, one of which is Trans Identities and Lives.
Safe Zone workshops are available during Safe Zone Blitz week once a semester or scheduled privately for groups.
The Office of Equal Opportunity
The Office of Equal Opportunity
This is the URI department specifically designated to deal with issues around discrimination. This office serves as a more general starting point if you don't know where to get help for a specific issue. The Office of Equal Opportunity runs under federal and state laws and also deals with sexual assault cases in the university.
Non-discrimination Policy
Non-discrimination Policy
The Non-discrimination Policy can be found in the Office of Opportunity's policies, outlining procedures when discrimination happens and how to prevent it. This policy's protected classes include: race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, marital status, disability, and sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, aids/HIV, domestic abuse victim, and homelessness.
Incident Reports
Incident Reports
It is important to report incidents if they do happen, and there are many different forms you can fill out depending on the nature of the incident. the link above will take you to a page where all the forms can be found organized by subject in an easy-to-digest way. One of the forms, the Bias Incident Report, is handled directly by the Bias Resource Team.
Bias Resource Team
Bias Resource Team
The Bias Resource Team (BRT) is an interdisciplinary team of staff and faculty that is dedicated to solving bias incidents. The BRT focuses on helping solve incidents by incorporating diverse points of view into the solving process and directs other URI offices on what should be done accordingly to the reported incident.
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