Arkansas Tech University will provide equal opportunity in employment to all persons. This applies to all phases of the personnel process, including recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, demotion, separation, transfer, training, compensation, discipline, and all other employment terms, conditions, and benefits. Arkansas Tech University prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status.
Arkansas Tech University will provide this notice and a copy of this policy to all applicants for employment. All faculty and staff will be notified annually of the policy. Further, Arkansas Tech University will consider through a designated grievance procedure the complaints of any person who feels that he or she has been discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status.
Arkansas Tech University will, through its strategic plans and other campus initiatives, develop and implement specific and result-oriented procedures to apply every good faith effort to achieve prompt and full utilization of minorities, women, those with disabilities or veterans at all levels and all segments of its workforce. Additionally, 131 Arkansas Tech University will continually monitor and evaluate its employment practices to ensure that they are free of bias or discrimination based upon race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status.
Responsibility for implementation and compliance with this policy has been delegated to the Director of Human Resources and Affirmative Action Officer, Ms. Melissa Riffle, who can be reached by emailing mriffle@atu.edu or by calling 479-968-0396.
If you have questions about the Nondiscrimination Policy or to report an act of discrimination you have witnessed and/or been a victim of, including discrimination based on color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, age, national origin, religion, veteran status, genetic information, or disability, please contact:
Melissa Riffle
Director of Human Resources and AA/EEO Officer/Deputy Title IX Coordinator
Brown Hall, Suite 420
(479) 968-0396
mriffle@atu.edu
To report any education discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, etc., request information on civil rights compliance programs, procedures for filing discrimination complaints, or access to civil rights regulator and policy documents.
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20202-1100
Customer Service Hotline: 1-800-421-3481
Email: ocr@ed.gov