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Chapter 4:

Focusing on the Gator Good

Equal Employment Employment Opportunity, and
Opportunity the UF regulation prohibiting
Discrimination and Harassment.
The University of Florida values Job applicants and employees
broad diversity within our who believe they have
community and is committed encountered discrimination
to diversity and eliminating at UF have the right to file
discrimination. Think of it this way: “Remember, that of complaints. UF takes such
We want all kinds of Gators on our all the elements that complaints very seriously. In
team. comprise a human fact, we want concerns brought
being, the most
Here at UF, we have committed to important, the most forward, and we actually
creating and furthering a learning essential, the one that consider it an employee’s
and working environment that will sustain, transcend, duty to file a complaint. We
honors all facets of diversity. overcome and vanquish cannot root out discrimination
We broadly define the concept obstacles is - Spirit!” if we do not know about it.
of diversity and welcome —Buddy Ebsen, film If you encounter or witness
into the Gator Nation people producer, actor, dancer, what you believe to be
representative of any race, creed, and former student conduct motivated by bias
color, religion, age, disability, of UF or discrimination based on
sex, sexual orientation, gender protected class status, tell
identity and expression, marital/ UFHR. We need to know, and
we want to know. For more
familial status, national origin, political opinion information on filing complaints, please see
or affiliation, genetic information, and veteran Chapter 7.
status, including veterans protected under the
Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance
Act. (You will sometimes hear this list of groups
referred to by the legal term of “protected Disability Accommodations
classes.”)
Although disability is a facet of diversity,
UF ensures all individuals have opportunities for special legal protections are extended to
employment at UF without discrimination on the qualified individuals with disabilities. Laws like
basis of protected class status. Indeed, UF has the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and
adopted goals of increasing diversity among its Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act
faculty and staff (as well as the student body). require UF to engage in an interactive process
You can read more about this commitment to determine what may be considered workable,
in UF’s strategic plan, the UF regulation reasonable accommodations for people with
addressing Affirmative Action and Equal physical and mental disabilities.

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