Affirmative Action Office

Objectives of Affirmative Action Policy

FHSU's Affirmative Action Program has the following major objectives:

1. Maintaining open and fair recruitment practices which will provide equal opportunity and encouragement for all qualified applicants.
2. Rectification of any salary discrepancy relating to age, race, color, marital status, religion, sex, national origin, handicap, veteran status (Vietnam Era and/or special disabled), and establishing procedures to avoid creating such inequities in the future.
3. Maintaining fair and equitable conditions for the promotion of all persons in the institution.
4. Ensuring fair and equitable treatment of all students in every phase of their academic life, especially those who may presently be disadvantaged in any way because of age, race, color, marital status, religion, sex, national origin, handicap, veteran status (Vietnam Era and/or special disabled).
5. Increasing the utilization of minorities, women, and the handicapped at all levels in all units and departments of the university.
6. Designing and implementing ongoing audits, research, and reporting systems to evaluate and measure Affirmative Action goals.
7. Developing training programs designed to assist tothose resonsible for hiring, promotion and supervision in complying iwth the university's equal opportunity policies.
8. Publishing and disseminating internally and externally all university policies concerning equal opportunity.

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