BIAS RESPONSE TEAM

Required diversity statement, bias response team part of diversity strategic plan

Hastings College recently announced an upcoming equity audit as a part of its Diversity Strategic Plan, which has o…

By Thomas Stevenson '23
Feb 6, 2023

Cornell releases annual bias response system report

Cornell releases a 'Reporting Bias System Annual Report' each year, this year adding 'microaggressions' and a varie…

By Alyssa Spencer '24
Dec 16, 2022

Legal group scores win in fight against bias reporting systems

The University of Maine recently revised its bias reporting system following a demand letter from Southeastern Lega…

By Shelby Kearns
Dec 14, 2022

WATCH: Bias reporting systems

Campus Reform Assistant Editor Alexa Schwerha spoke with Goldwater Institute's Jon Riches about bias reporting syst…

By Alexa Schwerha
Nov 27, 2022

Bias response team violated students' 1A rights, federal court unanimously rules

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Apr. 21 that the University of Central Florida's (UCF) bias respons…

By Elizabeth Podgorny '26
May 5, 2022

Q+A: Cherise Trump explains why students’ right to free speech matters

Campus Reform recently sat down with Cherise Trump, executive director of Speech First, a nonprofit organization th…

By Melissa Da Gama '23
Mar 10, 2022

UMich claims free speech lawsuit has ‘mistaken premises’

UMich, however, insists that "there is nothing in university policy that inhibits students from expressing their vi…

By Adam Sabes
May 21, 2018

GW issues 'action plan' for diversity after Snapchat incident

Although an internal investigation absolved the students shown in the picture, GW plans to require diversity traini…

By Abigail Marone
Apr 16, 2018

University shuts down bias reporting system after complaint

Longwood is currently devising a new protocol at the behest of Virginia Assistant Attorney General Cameron O'Brion,…

By Kyle Perisic
Nov 28, 2017

'Meritocracy' is a microaggression, university guidebook claims

Rowan University has published a guide on “Interrupting Microaggressions” with strategies for "calling out" those w…

By Adam Sabes
Jun 19, 2017

Cornell overturns rule giving women extra points for goals

Two bias reports were filed about the rule in February, after which a BART member demanded that the Athletics Depar…

By Amber Athey
Apr 28, 2017

REPORT: Bias Response Teams oversaw nearly 3M students in 2016

Not every team imposes disciplinary consequences for bias incidents, but 42 percent have at least one police or sec…

By Amber Athey
Feb 9, 2017

UMN Bias Response Team unable to define 'bias' or 'response'

Faculty Consultative Committee members say they aren't ready to abandon all support for the BRT, but expressed clea…

By Amber Athey
Sep 30, 2016

UNC reshuffles bias team amid continuing censorship concerns

The University of Northern Colorado (UNC) has decided to scrap its controversial Bias Response Team, saying it will…

By Amber Athey
Sep 8, 2016

Iowa mothballs bias team, citing 'high failure rate' at other schools

Georgina Dodge, UI’s chief diversity officer, explained that UI is concerned that bias teams at other schools have …

By Amber Athey
Aug 19, 2016

Oregon bias team to get taste of own medicine

The BRT recently came under fire for investigating alleged “bias incidents” such as one student “purposefully avoid…

By Amber Athey
Jul 11, 2016