Strategy 1.2.3 (Reporting for Students)
Provide easily accessed processes for students and employees to report grievances and discrimination.
Owners/Accountable Party
- Vice Provost for Student Success and Campus Life
- Associate Vice President for Conflict, Resolution, and Policy
- Director of Equal Opportunity/Title IX
- ADA Team
- Community Standards
Actions
Near-term Actions
- Promote Bias Response Team for student reporting
- Evaluate and define, as appropriate, relationships between various entities on campus who receive grievance and discrimination reports
- Identify and establish training opportunities for staff who receive and/or respond to grievance and discrimination reports throughout the year
- Launch a substantive sexual harassment training for all UM employees
- Evaluate and update UM’s Discrimination, Harassment, & Retaliation Policy and accompanied Grievance Procedures pursuant to forthcoming Department of Education regulations
- Establish the Office of Conflict, Resolution, & Policy, and applicable resolution options
Future Actions
- Continue to clarify and market role of the Bias Response Team
- Differentiate and clarify reporting mechanisms for students and employees
Completed and Ongoing Actions
- Established Bias Response Team to discuss student related concerns raised by campus community members; website launched
- Offering 1-2 TIX trainings per month to employees
- Tailored EO/TIX trainings for faculty chairs and deans
- ADA/504 Committee is functioning as ADA Coordinator
- Made barrier reporting form available online