It is the policy of Jackson State University to provide Equal Employment Opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees throughout their careers with the institution beginning with selection and placement through training and development, compensation, transfer, promotion, and other conditions and privileges of employment. Equal Employment Opportunity shall be without regard to race, color, religion, sex (except where sex is a bona fide occupational qualification), age, national origin, marital status, physical and mental disability (except where such disability renders the person incapable of doing the job), or veteran status.
The University takes affirmative action:
1. To recruit, hire, and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex (except where sex is a bona fide occupation qualification), age, national origin, marital status, physical and mental disability (except where such disability renders the person incapable of doing the job, or veteran status;
2. To insure that promotion decisions are in accord with the principles of equal employment opportunity by imposing only valid requirements for promotional opportunities;
3. To insure that all personnel actions, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, University-sponsored training, education, tuition assistance, and social and recreational programs, will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex (except where sex is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin, age, or physical and mental disability (except where such disability renders the person incapable of doing the job), or veteran status; and
4. To employ and advance in employment disabled veterans at all levels of employment.
The Affirmative Action Plan, combined with the University’s good faith efforts, is aimed at ensuring that Equal Employment Opportunity is maintained. It enables the University to demonstrate that it is responsible in the community in which it operates.
We would like to think that we work in an environment free of discrimination. But if you feel that you are having a problem, request a meeting with your supervisor, dean, area vice president or the Director of Human Resources to clarify misunderstandings which can arise from time to time.
This policy is actuated and implemented through the authority of the Chief Executive Officer, derived from the Board of Trustees of Institutions of Higher Learning in the State of Mississippi and delegated to the Director of Human Resources
