Discrimination & Harassment Resources

Relevant Excerpt

Discriminatory Harassment: A form of discrimination (defined above) that encompasses an incident(s) of verbal, written, visual, or physical communications and/or conduct based on or motivated by an individual’s actual or perceived membership in a legally protected category that is sufficiently severe, pervasive and/or persistent that it has the effect of unreasonably interfering with that individual’s work or academic performance, or that creates a hostile working, educational or living environment. Discriminatory harassment may include the use of epithets, stereotypes, slurs, comments, insults, derogatory remarks, gestures, threats, graffiti, display or circulation of written or visual material, taunts, and negative references related to any of these protected categories.