Resources : Bias Assessment and Response Team

Resources

Student Life Bias Response Resources

University Housing
Residence hall advisors are trained to listen to student experiences of bias behaviors, let student know the options for response, and help initiate the requested or appropriate steps. Professional and Graduate Hall Directors can assist with personal support, community response, safe housing, reporting to University resources and law enforcement agencies.
Student Conduct
Student Conduct administers the non-academic Code of Student Conduct. They help students by investigating and responding to situations in which someone may have violated the Code of Student Conduct, including bias incidents.
Student Advocacy
Student advocates answer students’ questions, direct students to appropriate staff and departments, familiarize students with university policies and procedures and give students guidance in ways to solve problems and make choices.
Counseling and Consultation Services
Counselors provide crisis phone and in-person consultations to students and can recommend a course of action. Counselors also provide brief and longer term therapy to students.
Office for Disability Services
(614) 292-3307 (phone) TDD: (614) 292-0901
The disability counselors collaborate with students on disability related issues of academic accommodations, learning strategies, advocacy skills, transition issues, and career planning. Counselors also help students connect with other appropriate services on campus as needed.
Ohio Union and Student Activities
Student Activities staff members provide resources and support for members and advisors of student organizations and social fraternities and sororities in exploring and addressing bias-related incidents. Student Activities also facilitates resources available for organizing events related to community dialogue.
Multicultural Center
Intercultural specialists meet with students individually and in groups, to listen, to facilitate group forums, to advocate on behalf of students, to present workshops and trainings, and to coordinate collaborative responses to issues and intercultural incidents on campus. The MCC also offers many kinds of programs to promote social justice, such as awareness events, lecture, art and film discussions, student leadership cohort groups, diversity dialogues and National Coalition Building Institute workshops.
BART – Bias Assessment Response Team
BART monitors campus incidents of hate and bias-related incidents. BART representatives help students who witness or have been victims of a hate or bias-related incident to determine the type of incident experienced and the steps available to address incidents.

Other OSU Resources

Local Resources

Ohio Civil Rights Commission
The primary function of The Ohio Civil Rights Commission is to enforce state laws against discrimination. OCRC receives and investigates charges of discrimination in employment, public accommodations, housing, credit and higher education on the bases of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, ancestry or familial status.
Columbus Community Relations Commission
In accordance with Columbus City Code 139, the CRC was created and established to recommend ways and means of initiating and improving city government programs designed to eliminate discrimination or to remove the effects of past discrimination. The CRC is also authorized to investigate, mediate, conciliate and conduct hearings on complaints alleging discrimination and to work with the City Attorney to prosecute cases where discrimination has occurred against individuals in employment, housing and public accommodation because of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex or sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, familial status, and gender identity or expression or that interfere with their civil rights.

National Resources

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