Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects students from race, color and national origin discrimination. It extends to students who experience discrimination, including harassment, based on their actual or perceived shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics or citizenship or residency in a country with a dominant religion or distinct religious identity. Institutions have a responsibility to address discrimination against groups when the discrimination involves:
- Racial, ethnic, or ancestral slurs or stereotypes;
- A student’s skin color, physical features, or style of dress that reflects both ethnic and religious traditions; and
- Where a student came from or is perceived to have come from, including discrimination based on a students foreign accent, a student’s foreign name, including names commonly associated with particular shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics, or a student speaking a foreign language.
Harassing conduct can be verbal or physical and does not need to be directed at a particular individual.
If this has happened to you or someone you know, you can get support via the BIAS Complaint Form, located here. Also on this website are the Silent Witness Form and the Hate Crime Form.
View SUNY Morrisville's Nondiscrimination Policy.
EVERYONE should feel they belong at SUNY Morrisville. There is no place for hate here.