The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is committed to making employment opportunities available to qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, natural origin, age, disability, citizenship, or status as a Vietnam-era, special disabled, or other eligible veteran. All personnel actions and programs, including recruitment; selection; assignment; classification; promotion; demotion; transfer; layoff and recall; termination; determination of wages; conditions; and benefits of employment, etc. shall be administered in accordance with this equal opportunity policy. It is the intent of the University that, in all aspects of employment, individuals shall be treated without discrimination on any of the foregoing bases, and that employment decisions shall instead be premised upon a person's ability, experience, and other job-related qualifications.
Additionally, the University is an affirmative action employer of women, minorities, individuals with a disability, and Vietnam-era, special disabled, and other eligible veterans. It is committed to making sustained, diligent efforts to identify and consider such individuals for employment and for opportunities arising during employment.
UAH is also committed to equal educational opportunity for all qualified students and does not discriminate in its educational policies, practices, programs, or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, citizenship, or veteran status. Its admissions, financial aid, athletics, student services, and other programs are administered in accordance with this policy.
Discrimination, under this policy, shall be understood to include harassment in the form of verbal or physical conduct relating to an individual's race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, citizenship, or veteran status. Such harassment must have the purpose or effect of either creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working/learning environment for an individual or unreasonably interfering with an individual's performance as an employee or student. Harassment in the form described above which adversely and substantially affects an individual's employment or educational opportunities in other ways is also considered to be unlawful discrimination.