RCAH/MSU DEI-related Policies

RCAH follows all MSU policies to ensure a safe, diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning, living, and working environment, including the following DEI-related policies. You can learn more about these policies via the MSU Office for Civil Rights and Title IX Education and Compliance.

• Notice of Non-Discrimination, Anti-Harassment and Non-retaliation (Español), which highlights RCAH and MSU’s commitment to an inclusive atmosphere where students, faculty, staff, and guests may participate in University life without concerns of discrimination.
• Anti-Discrimination Policy (ADP Manual, Appeal Procedures), which prohibits any University community member from harassing or discriminating against University community members on the basis of age, color, gender, gender identity, disability status, height, marital status, national origin, political persuasion, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or weight.
• Mandatory University Reporting Protocols requires that MSU employees under most circumstances must report incidents of sexual harassment, sexual violence, sexual misconduct, stalking, and relationship violence.
• University Reporting Protocols: Child Abuse, Sexual Assault and Child Pornography apply but are not entirely limited to mandatory reporters under State of Michigan statute.
• Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct and Title IX Policy prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex and sexual harassment, including gender-based harassment, sexual assault/misconduct, relationship violence, and stalking.
• Under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, members of the MSU and RCAH communities cannot be discriminated against on the basis of their pregnancy, childbirth, false pregnancy, termination of pregnancy, or recovery from any of these conditions. As such, MSU prohibits any rule concerning a student’s actual or potential parental, family, or marital status which treats community members differently on the basis of sex.

Various MSU websites and handbooks also outline rights and responsibilities for students, employees, and other University stakeholders to ensure a safe, diverse, equitable, and inclusive community, including:

• Spartan Life Online, a website for MSU students outlining critical information, services, rights, responsibilities and information about important University policies for students.
• Student Employment Manual, now a website maintained by MSU Human Resources, outlining student employee laws, regulations, and a host of policies and responsibilities.
• MSU Human Resources Handbooks and Policies collects into one website employee handbooks, policies, procedures, laws, and guidelines for MSU administrators, faculty, academic staff, and support staff working across the University.