LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Affirmative Action Community College Statement

LaGuardia Community College is committed to the principles and spirit of affirmative action and equal opportunity. The College stronger believes in affirmative action and is fully supported by its President, as Chief Executive Officer.

It is the policy of LaGuardia Community College to recruit, employ, train and promote employees on the basis of equal opportunity without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, national origin, disability, persons with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or status as a disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran.

LaGuardia Community College recognizes its obligation to provide students with equal consideration when seeking admission, financial aid, and access to student services, academic and athletic programs.

The College believes in a policy of nondiscrimination and, as an educational instruction maintains an ongoing program to assure compliance with federal legislation, and University guidelines. The affirmative Action Program encourages positive practices and ensures equitable disciplinary procedures for any member of the college community who engages in harassment on the basis of race. Sex, sexual orientation or disability, or any individual who reports such an incident.

It is the policy of LaGuardia Community College to operate and comply with the requirements of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, Title VI, Title VII, the Educational Amendment Act of 1972 (Title IX), Executive Order 11246 as amended by Executive Order 11375, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (503 and 504) Section 402 of the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, the Age Discrimination Act of 1974, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1987, the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, and the American Disabilities Act of 1989.

The President, as Chief Executive Office, has overall responsibility for the Affirmative Action Program. The President has designated general responsibility for the Affirmative Action Program to he Affirmative Action Officer, Shirley J. Saulsbury, Executive Assistant to the President, Room E-513, (718) –482-5050.

January, 1990

Raymond C. Bowen, President