{"id":1070,"date":"2024-08-01T09:18:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T13:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/here-to-help\/?page_id=1070"},"modified":"2025-01-14T16:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T21:28:21","slug":"equal-opportunity-non-discrimination-and-anti-harassment-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/here-to-help\/policies\/equal-opportunity-non-discrimination-and-anti-harassment-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal Opportunity, Non-Discrimination, and Anti-Harassment Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bates College values the diversity of persons, perspectives, and convictions. Critical thinking, rigorous analysis, and open discussion of a full range of ideas lie at the heart of the college\u2019s mission as an institution of higher learning.&nbsp;The college seeks to encourage inquiry and reasoned dialogue in a climate of mutual respect. The application of the <strong>Equal Opportunity, Non-Discrimination, and Anti-Harassment Policy<\/strong> strives to ensure that we uphold our institutional values and community principles in order to maintain a community free from the harmful consequences of sexual and gender-based harassment. Harassment and discrimination threaten our ability to thrive personally, academically, and professionally at Bates and violates a person&#8217;s rights, dignity, and integrity, as well as our community principles and the mission of the college. A printed copy of this policy is available by contacting <a href=\"mailto:glexow@bates.edu\"> Gwen Lexow, Associate Vice President for Title IX &amp; Civil Rights Compliance\/Title IX Coordinator.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/here-to-help\/policies\/equal-opportunity-policy\/\">Equal Opportunity, Non-Discrimination, and Anti-Harassment Policy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last update: January 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College values the diversity of persons, perspectives, and convictions. Critical thinking,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"parent":365,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-1070","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/here-to-help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/here-to-help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/here-to-help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/here-to-help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/here-to-help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/here-to-help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/here-to-help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1070\/revisions\/1260"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/here-to-help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/here-to-help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}