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University Policy On Equal Employment Opportunity & Affirmative Action
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is firmly committed to a policy of equal opportunity and affirmative action and will implement this policy in accordance with State and Federal statutes, executive orders, and regulations. This applies to the three major areas of University activity, education, employment and contracting, as follows:
It is University policy to make the benefits and services of its education program available to students without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, marital or veteran status. This applies to undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. Douglass College, however, as a traditionally and continuously single-sex institution, may, under Federal law, continue to restrict college admission to women.
It is University policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment regardless of their race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, marital, military or veteran status, and to use as a basis for selection in employment only those characteristics which are demonstrably related to job performance or requirements. Where applicants for employment in one of the aforementioned categories are on that account not considered able to meet the bona fide qualifications for employment, the University officer with hiring authority may only act to disqualify them on such a basis with the approval of both the appropriate vice president and the University Counsel. This applies to the administration within each employment category of personnel actions such as recruitment, hiring, promotion, training, compensation, transfer, layoff, return from layoff, termination, benefits, tuition assistance, education, and social and recreational programs. In addition, the University will make special efforts to recruit, employ, and advance in employment qualified members of minority groups, women, individuals with disabilities, special disabled veterans, and veterans of the Vietnam era.
It is University policy that contractors and subcontractors performing work or rendering services to the University observe a policy of nondiscrimination and affirmative action in all personnel matters. Further, it is University policy that the maximum practicable opportunity to participate in the performance of University contracts and subcontracts be provided to minority business enterprises.
Approved November 1972, Board of Governors
Revised January 1974, Board of Governors
Revised September 1974, Board of Governors
Revised January 1978, Board of Governors
Revised November 1981, Board of Governors
