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Bias Prevention and Multicultural Awareness

Let each of us look within our own hearts and our own communities, and let each of us put our shoulder to the wheel to root out injustice wherever it exists. (Lyndon Johnson, 1965)

Bias Prevention involves a system of protocols developed within the colleges and student affairs areas to: monitor the climate for bias incidents, intervene in such incidents, counsel persons victimized by such incidents, counsel, reprimand, adjudicate persons who perpetrate bias acts, and restore/heal environments in the aftermath of such acts.

The Bias Prevention Steering Committee, which is chaired by the director, addresses the University’s "Policy Against Verbal Assault, Defamation, and Harassment" by monitoring the campus for bias incidents and supports bias prevention efforts in New Brunswick. Committee Members include representatives from Cook, Douglass, Livingston and Rutgers colleges and the administrative units in the offices of the Vice President for Student Affairs, Public Safety, and Undergraduate Education. The Bias Prevention Steering Committee is dedicated to educating students, staff, and faculty on bias prevention and multicultural awareness; and is guided by four principles: Prevention, Anticipation, Response, Restoration.

Bias Prevention Tools:

Bias Incident Reporting Form

Definitions: Multicultural Awareness and Bias

8 Ways to Develop Multicultural Sensitivity

10 Ways to Fight Hate

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