Office for Institutional Diversity: Policies and Compliance- Discriminatory Harassment

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Broadly speaking, harassment occurs whenever offensive or unwelcome conduct (in school or at work) affects a person's performance or environment. Under the law, there are two kinds of discriminatory harassment: ...

Hostile environment harassment is conduct that involves making abusive, mocking, or disparaging reference to an individual’s race, color, national origin, sex, religion, disability, age, or sexual orientation, thereby interfering with an individual’s performance by creating an intimidating, hostile, humiliating, or sexually offensive environment.