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The University of Bridgeport is committed to providing an educational and employment environment that is free from discrimination based on protected characteristics, harassment, sexual misconduct, and retaliation for engaging in protected activity.
To ensure compliance with federal, state, and local civil rights laws and regulations, and to affirm its commitment to promoting the goals of fairness and equity in all aspects of the education program or activity, the University has developed policies and procedures that provide for prompt, fair, and impartial resolution of allegations of protected characteristic discrimination, harassment, sexual misconduct, or allegations of retaliation.
Examples of these allegations include, but are not limited to, hazing, sex-based harassment, sexual assault, stalking, intimate partner violence, bullying, and discrimination based on protected characteristics.
Any member of the University community whose acts deny, deprive, unreasonably interfere with or limit the education or employment, residential, and/or social access, benefits, and/or opportunities of any member of the University community, guest, or visitor on the basis of that person’s actual or perceived protected characteristics is in violation of the University’s Discrimination, Harassment, Sexual Misconduct, and Retaliation Policy.
The University will promptly and effectively address any such allegations of which it has knowledge/notice using the resolution process is the Discrimination, Harassment Sexual Misconduct, and Retaliation procedures.
To file a report or get more information, please contact the Title IX and Equity Coordinator at titleix@bridgeport.edu.
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