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Bias Incident Report


Cedar Crest College (the “College”) values a diverse, inclusive, and equitable learning environment. The College is committed to maintaining a respectful and welcoming living, learning, and working environment for all students, faculty, and staff. As such, the College has established the Bias Incident Resource Team. The Resourse Team is the first resource from the College in coordinating responses to bias and hate incidents. The Resource Team ensures that affected individuals have access to appropriate resources, to assist the College in its response, and to facilitate a coordinated campus response to bias-related incidents and situations.

Bias incidents are expressions, acts, or behaviors — verbal, written, or physical — which are directed against or target an individual or group based on perceived or actual characteristics, such as, race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, familial status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected from discrimination under law. Bias incidents include hate crimes as defined under Federal and applicable state law. Incidents do not need to be hate crimes to be reported. All such incidents may violate College polices regarding student, faculty, and staff conduct, as well as laws against discrimination. The College strongly encourages the reporting of all hate crimes and bias incidents.

As an academic community, the College values protected free speech as central to advancement of learning. The College also recognizes an obligation to ensure an educational environment that is welcoming and inclusive of all learners.

The Bias Incident Resource Team does not replace processes and policies for reporting and addressing acts of discrimination, harassment, or violence, including but not limited to those established in student, faculty, and staff handbooks or by the offices of Student Affairs, Human Resources, the Provost, or the College Police.

Retaliation of any kind against a student or member of the faculty, staff, or college community for submitting a bias incident report, participating in a bias follow-up procedure, or refusing to participate in a bias follow-up procedure is explicitly prohibited

Reporter Information

Individuals may request that their report be anonymous. The Response Team recognizes the importance of balancing an individual’s right to confidentiality and privacy with the community’s need to know how the College is responding to an incident. All incidents reported to the Response Team will be handled with privacy and discretion. Any personal information obtained will be subject to disclosure only to the extent required by law, or as required for the College to respond appropriately.

 
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