Description of the process that will occur once a report has been submitted:
Incident Report
- Evaluation by Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for Diversity and Inclusion and/or the Associate Dean of Students for Inclusion and Involvement to determine which campus office should follow up. If it is not entirely clear which office of the College is responsible for investigating the incident reported, it will be reviewed by the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for Diversity and Inclusion, the Associate Dean of Students for Inclusion and Involvement, the Title IX Coordinator, the Director of Community Standards, and the Director of Human Resources. [In the event that a report would be submitted involving any one of these individuals, that person will not participate in the review.]
- Once the appropriate office of the College has been determined, the review will begin with an interview with the reporting individual, when not anonymous.
- It may then involve conversations with the individual/s who were the subject/s of the report.
- The individual/s responsible for the investigation will determine the appropriate response, which could include no action at all, referrals to other campus offices or services, educational programming on an individual or group basis, and/or notifications of the incident to the community as appropriate.
The process that we will implement and assess on an on-going basis seeks to accomplish the following aims:
- engage community members in dialogue, build awareness of on-going biases among us in order to help foster a learning, working, and living community free from hate, discrimination, harassment, disrespect, and intolerance.
- receive information in a sensitive and timely way.
- assess the circumstances of any reported incidents as thoroughly and quickly as possible with the information available.
- make referrals to appropriate campus officials so that action can be taken; and
- assist in implementation of a coordinated and appropriate community response (engaging partners as needed) and/or communicating with the community in an appropriate and timely fashion as often as is necessary.
Minimally, a report will be collated and made available to the community on a dedicated website annually. Reports will include brief summaries of the incidents reported and will respect the confidentiality of the parties involved by excluding any information that would allow community members to identify any of the parties involved. The Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for Diversity and Inclusion will use these reports to share information with the college community about trends that we need to address as a community. Additionally, the Faculty Professional Interest Committee will be asked to review the reports related to faculty to ensure that the system is yielding valuable information and that faculty professional interests have been preserved.