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