Marist University Athletics aligns with the University’s nondiscrimination policy:
Marist University adheres to all federal, state, and, where applicable, local civil rights laws banning discrimination in private institutions of higher education. The University will not discriminate against any employee, applicant for employment, student or applicant for admission on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, ethnicity, national origin (including ancestry), citizenship status, physical or mental disability, age, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, veteran or military status (including special disabled veteran, Vietnam-era veteran, or recently separated veteran), predisposing genetic characteristics, domestic violence victim status or any other protected category under applicable local, state or federal law, including protections for those opposing discrimination or participating in any grievance process on campus or within the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or other human rights agencies.
This policy covers nondiscrimination in employment and in access to educational opportunities. Any member of the campus community, guest or visitor who acts to deny, deprive or limit the educational, employment, housing, social access, financial aid and scholarship, benefits and/or other services and opportunities of any member of the campus community or its visitors and guests on the basis of their actual or perceived membership in the protected classes listed above is in violation of University policy. When brought to the attention of the University, any such discrimination will be appropriately remedied by the University according to outlined policy and procedures.
Discrimination
Discrimination is defined as treating members of a protected class less favorably because of their membership in that class or as having a neutral policy or practice that adversely impacts the members of one protected class more than others.
Discriminatory Harassment
Students, staff, administrators, faculty, and interns are entitled to a working environment and educational environment free of discriminatory harassment. The University condemns and will not tolerate discriminatory harassment against any employee, student, visitor or guest on the basis of any status protected by University policy or law. Harassment constitutes a form of discrimination that is prohibited by law. Harassment is defined as subjecting an individual to unwelcome conduct, whether verbal or physical, that creates an intimidating, hostile, or abusive working, learning or campus living environment; that alters the conditions of employment or education; or unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work or academic performance on the basis of the individual’s membership in a protected class. Harassment may include, but is not limited to: verbal abuse; slurs; negative stereotyping; threatening, intimidating or hostile acts; denigrating jokes; insulting or obscene comments or gestures; and display or circulation (including in hard copy, by email or text, or through social media) in the working, learning and living environment of written or graphic material that degrades or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual or group. Sexual harassment and gender-based harassment (later defined in further detail) are forms of discriminatory harassment.
The University will remedy all forms of harassment when reported, whether or not the harassment rises to the level of creating a hostile environment. When harassment rises to the level of creating a hostile environment, the University may also impose sanctions on the harasser. The University reserves the right to address offensive conduct and/or harassment that does not rise to the level of discrimination or that is of a generic nature not on the basis of a protected status, and which customarily may not result in the imposition of discipline under University policy. This will be addressed through civil confrontation, remedial actions, education, and/or effective conflict resolution mechanisms.
Gender-Based Misconduct
Gender-based misconduct is a broad term that encompasses gender-based harassment, sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual exploitation, stalking, dating violence, and domestic violence. Acts of aggression, intimidation, stalking, or hostility based on gender or gender-stereotyping constitute gender-based harassment. Gender-based harassment can occur if individuals are harassed either for exhibiting what is perceived as a stereotypical characteristic of their sex, or for failing to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity. To constitute harassment, the conduct must reasonably interfere with another person’s education or participation in educational programs or activities or work, or create an intimidating, hostile, demeaning, or offensive working, academic, or living environment.
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