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Bryant University Principles
Bryant believes that the most successful institutions of higher education work hard at building community. This effort is guided by several principles that shape our shared experiences. The fostering of these principles helps our University prepare its students to achieve their personal best in life and their chosen professions. To enter Bryant University is to become a member of a community, which is both a privilege and an opportunity. Participation in and support of this community is a responsibility shared by all. The search for community represents a process and a journey dedicated to helping students succeed. These guiding principles* are as follows:
- Bryant
University is an educationally purposeful community - a place
where faculty, staff, and students work together to strengthen
teaching and learning on campus.
- The
campus is a place where high standards of civility are set and
violations are challenged. Bryant University is a community whose
members speak and listen carefully to each other.
- Bryant
University is a place where the sacredness of each person is honored
and where diversity is aggressively pursued.
- Bryant
University clearly states both its academic and social expectations.
All must accept their obligations as citizens of the Bryant community
and expect to be held accountable for behavior as individuals
and members of groups.
- The
University is a caring community where the well-being of each
member is supported and where service to others is encouraged.
- Bryant finds opportunities to affirm both tradition and change.
Orientation, Homecoming, Commencement, and other activities are
examples of celebratory activities. Good traditions must be preserved,
new ones established, and others must sometimes end.
*Principles outlined in Ernest Boyer’s book Campus Life:
In Search of Community form the basis for the Bryant Pledge.
These principles represent the shared commitments of students, staff, and faculty toward a successful learning
experience.
Mission Statement
Bryant University is a student-centered University focused on academic excellence that prepares its graduates to achieve their personal best in life and their chosen professions through:
- Challenging academic programs offered by faculty members prominent in their fields
- A culturally-enriching campus life that encourages personal growth
- Professional experiences and affiliations
- The integration of advanced technology into the curriculum, and
- The cultivation of a global perspective through coursework and student-life activities.
Commitment to Diversity
Bryant University recognizes that its position as a leader in higher education is greatly determined both by the diversity of its campus community and its intellectual endeavors. Its commitment to link academic and social diversity for the benefit of the learning and living environment reflects its belief that excellence and diversity are mutually reinforcing objectives.
We also understand diversity as a global issue. We provide an education that offers our students the knowledge and skills to thrive in an age of global complexity and change. Our policies and programs nurture a pluralistic environment that honors human dignity, integrity, and the rights of others.
Bryant University encourages members of its community to be independent, tolerant thinkers who possess the courage and patience to grow in their understanding of differences – whether they be ethnic, intellectual, physical, political, cultural, sexual, religious or economic. Doing so on a personal level reaffirms the critical role that divergent voices play in making Bryant University a world-class institution dedicated to teaching, learning, and producing new knowledge.
Equal Employment Opportunity ("EEO")
Affirmative Action Program ("AAP")
Reaffirmation of policy: It is the intention of Bryant University ("Bryant") to make all efforts reasonably possible to live up to its EEO Policy and the commitments made in its AAP. The Program has been prepared to accurately reflect Bryant's current status, its actions to date, and its intentions for the future.
Overall responsibility for fulfillment of the EEO Policy and the AAP is assigned to the Associate Vice President for Human Resources. The Associate Vice President will periodically conduct analyses of all personnel actions to ensure that Bryant is living up to its stated intentions. The management of Bryant is responsible for the ongoing monitoring of all personnel actions in their respective areas of supervision and will carry out the intentions of the EEO Policy and the University's AAP to the fullest extent possible.
Bryant has established employment policies and practices that are non-discriminatory and are solely based upon factors that are job-related. Factors such as an individual's race, color, religion, sex, sexual preference or orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, ethnicity, disability, veteran or marital status are not job-related and play no part in Bryant's employment practices. Bryant's AAP is designed and established in order to promote affirmative action and provide equal employment opportunity, and to provide guidance to management with respect to Bryant's commitment to the full implementation of its EEO policy. The AAP is further designed to monitor and report on all related procedures, including but not limited to:
- recruiting, hiring, training, promoting, and transferring applicants and employees in job classifications without discrimination;
- basing decisions on employment so as to further the principle of equal employment opportunity;
- ensuring that no employee or applicant for employment is subject to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination for filing a complaint or assisting in an investigation, compliance review, or hearing related to any law requiring equal opportunity for covered individuals;
- ensuring that promotion and transfer decisions are in accord with principles of equal employment opportunity by imposing only valid, job-related requirements for such opportunities; and
- ensuring that all other personnel actions, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, return from layoffs, company-sponsored training and educational assistance and social and recreational programs will be administered without discrimination.
Bryant does, and will continue to, provide all applicants for employment and all employees with equal opportunity for employment and promotion regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual preference or orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, ethnicity, disability, veteran or marital status. This commitment to equal employment opportunity includes all other personnel actions, such as, transfers, disciplinary actions and procedures, layoffs, Bryant-sponsored training, social and recreational programs or activities, rates of pay, educational assistance (tuition reimbursement), and all other conditions of employment. Management at all levels will abide by federally mandated regulations in incorporating affirmative action into its procedures. There will be a good faith effort to increase the consideration, promotion, hiring, and effective utilization of minorities and females in all job categories and organizational units/departments in accordance with the goals set forth in the University's AAP. Minorities and females are encouraged to take the fullest advantage of the opportunities available at Bryant. Bryant intends to fulfill the spirit of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action by ensuring that its relationships with prospective and present employees are open and free from bias.
The complete EEO Policy/AAP is on file with the Human Resources Department.
Solicitation
All Bryant University employees are entitled to perform their work without being bothered or disturbed by solicitors. Accordingly, we have adopted the following solicitation and distribution rule:
Persons who are not employed by the University are prohibited from soliciting and from distributing literature or other materials, for any purpose and at any time, within the University's buildings or anywhere on its property.
Employees are prohibited from soliciting during their work hours and during the work hours of other employees, and from distributing literature or other materials during their work hours and during the work hours of other employees. Employees are also prohibited from distributing literature or other materials at any time in the work areas of the University.
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