Equity is the fair treatment, access, opportunity and advancement for all students,
faculty and staff in every stage of their education and/or career at Nassau Community
College.
Inclusion refers to the way an organization configures opportunity, integration, communication,
information and decision-making to optimize the leverage and potential of its diversity
for improving decision-making, organizational effectiveness and performance.
Affirmative Action refers to positive steps aimed at increasing the inclusion of historically
excluded groups in employment, education, accommodation, business, etc. Such steps
are not designed to offer preferential treatment to or exclude any group. To the contrary,
Affirmative Action Policies are intended to promote access for the traditionally underrepresented
through heightened outreach and efforts at inclusion.
The Associate Vice President for Equity and Inclusion is the College’s Affirmative
Action/ADA-504 Officer.
Sexual Harassment consists of unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favors
and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is the federal agency responsible for
enforcing Title VII. The EEOC Guidelines, 29 C.F.R. Section 1604.11, provide the following
definition of sexual harassment:
Unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical
conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when (1) submission to such
conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or conditions of an individual’s
employment, (2) submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used
as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual or (3) such conduct
has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance
or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment.
Sexual Harassment can occur in a variety of circumstances, including but not limited
to the following:
- The victim as well as the harasser may be a women or a man. The victim does not have
to be the opposite sex.
- The harasser can be the victim’s supervisor, an agent of the employer, a supervisor
in another area, a co-worker, or a non-employee.
- The victim does not have to be the person harassed but could be anyone affected by
the offensive conduct.
- Unlawful sexual harassment may occur without economic injury to or discharge of the
victim.
- The harasser’s conduct must be unwelcome.
For more information, please see the NCC Sexual Harassment Policy.
