CU-Boulder Resources for Engaging Conflict Productively

The University of Colorado at Boulder has many programs, services, and positions dedicated to helping students, faculty, and/or staff engage productively with difficult conversations and issues. This sheet provides basic information and contact information for many of those resources. Resources are listed in alphabetical order. If you are aware of a resource you believe should be listed here, please contact us at Jennifer.Simpson@Colorado.edu. A comprehensive list of campus policies is available on-line at www.colorado.edu/policies/

Bias Motivated Incident Response Team

A product of the Building Community Campaign designed to create a rapid response network of campus individuals and units trained in and sensitive to issues of bias and discrimination who could mobilize to respond to incidents of bias when they occur. Bias Motivated Incidents may be reported by calling 303-735-1028. If a crime has occurred, the group encourages affected persons to contact the CU Police Department at 303-492-6666. A bias motivated incident reporting form can also be downloaded from the building community web site at www.colorado.edu/buildingcommunity/bias.pdf

Building Community Campaign

A program of the Division of Student Affairs working to create a safe, respectful, and welcoming community at CU-Boulder. www.colorado.edu/buildingcommunity.

Chancellor’s Advisory Committees

The Chancellor currently has four standing committees designed to address, examine, and advise on matters of bias or inequity affecting these groups.

Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs (CACMA)

www.colorado.edu/cu-diversity/committees/cacma.html

Chancellor's Committee on Program Accessibility

www.colorado.edu/cu-diversity/committees/accessibility.html

Chancellor's Committee on Women (CCW)

www.colorado.edu/cu-diversity/ccw/index.htm

Chancellor's Standing Committee on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues

www.colorado.edu/cu-diversity/committees/cglbt.html

CU Dialogue Network

The Dialogue Network is a group of CU Faculty, Staff, and students committed to fostering dialogue and promoting positive strategies for dealing with difficult conversations on campus. This group works together to teach classes, provide workshops, conduct trainings, and facilitate dialogue around difficult conversations. www.colorado.edu/studentaffairs/dialoguenetwork

Diversity Education Team

The Diversity Education Team (DET), a program of the Center for Multicultural Affairs, works collaboratively with individuals and departments within the university to offer diversity education. DET training seminars and workshops cover all forms of oppression, with a particular focus on the history, feelings, and experiences of people of color and multiracial individuals in the context of the United States. DET offers individually tailored seminars to requesting departments, groups, or individuals. http://www.colorado.edu/studentaffairs/cma/det.html

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center

The GLBT Resource Center is an advocacy office for GLBT students, staff, faculty, and alumni. They provide programs and services targeted towards the GLBT community as well as support the University of Colorado Boulder community in its understanding of GLBT issues and concerns. http://www.colorado.edu/GLBTRC/

Grievance Procedure for Filing a Discrimination Complaint

Complaints should be directed to the Director of the Department of Equal Opportunity and ADA Coordinator, Willard Hall, Room 209, 144 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, telephone number (303) 492-6706. Complete grievance procedure information is available on-line at www.colorado.edu/policies/discrimination.html

Interactive Theatre Project

The Interactive Theater Project examines issues such as sexual assault, heterosexism, racism, anti-Semitism, suicide, workplace conflict, and other topics that impact the university community. This project is a service of the Wardenburg Community Health Education Department. Rebecca Brown Adelman and Trent Norman, Directors. http://www.colorado.edu/healthcenter/studenthealth/theater.html

Non-Discrimination

CU-Boulder does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, color, age, national origin, disability, religious or political affiliations, veteran status or sexual orientation.

University of Colorado at Boulder’s official non-discrimination statement is available at www.colorado.edu/FacultyStaff/nondiscrimination.html

Office of Judicial Affairs

The Office of Judicial Affairs oversees adjudication of student misconduct on campus.

They can be found on-line at www.colorado.edu/studentaffairs/judicialaffairs/index.html

Office of Sexual Harassment

The mission of the Office of Sexual Harassment Policy is to prevent and eliminate sexual harassment at the University of Colorado at Boulder. www.colorado.edu/sexualharassment/

Office of Victim Assistance

The Victim Assistance Program is an advocacy and support office that assists victims of crimes, accidents, sexual assaults, or other traumas. They can advise students of their rights, available services, and generally how best to deal with their situation. Victim Assistance is not equipped to deal with emergencies on a 24-hour basis, but they can get involved soon after being contacted. Affected parties should call emergency numbers first, then Victim Assistance at 492-8855. Monday-Friday 8am-5pm call 492-6666 (CU police) to have a Victim Advocate paged.

Ombuds Office

The Ombuds Office at the University of Colorado at Boulder provides informal, impartial, and confidential dispute resolution services for students, staff, and faculty. www.colorado.edu/Ombuds/

Policy on Student Classroom and Course-Related Behavior

In response to concerns from both faculty and students regarding classroom and course-related behavior, the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a policy governing classroom interaction to guide students and faulty in their classroom dealings. This policy is available on-line at www.colorado.edu/policies/classbehavior.html

Policy on the Use of University Facilities

A campus policy governs the use of university facilities. In response to recent concerns, an addendum to this policy related to chalking on campus has been developed. www.colorado.edu/FacultyStaff/facility_use.html

Policy on Religious Holidays

The University of Colorado at Boulder has a legal and moral obligation to accommodate all students who must be absent from classes or miss scheduled exams in order to observe religious holidays; we must be careful not to inhibit or penalize these students for exercising their rights to religious observance. Toward this end we have a policy on religious holidays and absences from classes and/or exams. www.colorado.edu/policies/fac_relig.html

Restorative Justice Program

In addition to standard processes, the Office of Judicial Affairs also has a program that uses principles of "restorative justice" as an alternative to our Student Judicial Affairs process. This is a collaborative project involving the Ombuds Office, Office of Judicial Affairs, the University Police Dept., Housing, the Office of Victim Assistance, and the Student Conflict Resolution Service. Judicial Affairs may use this approach when students who violate the Student Code of Conduct admit wrongdoing and indicate a willingness to resolve the conflict in this way. www.colorado.edu/studentaffairs/judicialaffairs/restjust.html

Student Code of Conduct

The University of Colorado at Boulder has a student code of conduct based on maintaining the general welfare of the university community. The university strives to make the campus community a place of study, work, and residence where people are treated with respect and courtesy.

www.colorado.edu/studentaffairs/judicialaffairs/code.html

Women's Resource Center

The Women's Resource Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder serves as a resource for the university community. From a lens of gender equity and social justice they advocate for people of all genders, backgrounds, races, classes, ages, sexual orientations, political and religious beliefs, ethnicities, nationalities and abilities. The WRC strives for diversity at a core level in all of their programming and resources, as well as among their Staff, Volunteers, and Board members. They are firmly committed to building and strengthening alliances across differences and between agencies. http://www.colorado.edu/WomensResourceCenter