2022-2023 Summary of Bias Incidents
2022-2023 Bias Incident Reports
Submitted by Bias Incident Reporting Team, August 2023
A total of 26 bias incident reports were submitted during the 2022-2023 academic year. Reports were submitted by the following groups:
Submitted by:
Students: 22
Faculty: 2
Staff: 2
Anonymous: 0
Other: 0
Allegation of bias on the part of (one report involved two individuals of different statuses):
Students: 18
Faculty: 3
Staff: 5
Other 1
For eight of the reports, the bias was aimed at multiple protected identities.
Alleging bias against the following protected identities:
Race/ethnicity 7
Sexual orientation 10
Gender 10
Religion 8
National origin 1
Ability 0
Other 5
The 26 reports were handled in the following ways:
- 3 reports indicated bias
- Each of these reports was referred for investigation
19 reports did not appear to indicate bias
- 2 of these reports seemed to be other violations of SLU’s code of conduct and were referred for investigation
- The remaining 17 reports resulted in conversations between parties, dialogue and/or mediation
- For 4 reports, it was unclear whether bias was indicated
- In 1 case, while the presence of bias was unclear, there appeared to be a clear violation of the code of conduct and the case was referred for investigation.
- For the remaining 3, it was unclear either because the person who submitted the report did not respond to an attempt to discuss the situation further or identity of the individual(s) responsible for the behavior was unknown.
Submitted by Bias incident Reporting Team:
Kimberly Flint-Hamilton, Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion and BIRT chair
Ashlee Downing-Duke, Senior Associate Director of Student Activities
Pat Gagnon, Assistant Vice President, Safety & Security
Mark Denaci, Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Laura Rediehs, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Debra Mousaw, Director of Human Resources