These luncheons typically take place at an ethnic-type restaurant and introduces new culinary cuisine to many employees who are unfamiliar with foods of other cultures. Enhancing recruitment sources for minority group members. Art work for System Office. Accordingly, the University, through this plan of affirmative action, will, with conviction and effort, undertake positively to overcome the present effects of past practices, policies or barriers to equal employment opportunity, and to achieve the full and fair participation of Women, Blacks, Hispanics, and any other protected group found to be underutilized in the work force or adversely impacted by system policies or practices. Attached hereto and incorporated herein, are listed federal and state constitutional provisions, laws, regulations, guidelines and executive orders prohibiting or outlawing discrimination, identifying classes of persons protected based on race, color, religious creed, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, present or past history of mental disorder, mental retardation or physical disability, including, but not limited to blindness, except for bona fide occupational qualifications.
Affirmative action plays a significant role in each step of the employment process.
Affirmative action policy is ingrained in the development of effective recruitment strategies including locating and considering a diverse pool of candidates consisting of minorities, women and members of other protected groups. The Affirmative Action Officer serves as a resource to individual departments and search committees during all phases of the recruitment and hiring process. Clearly, Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity are immediate and necessary agency objectives for Connecticut State University. We shall affirmatively provide services and programs in a fair and impartial manner. We also recognize the hiring difficulties experienced by the physically disabled and many older persons, and will undertake measures to overcome the present effects of past discrimination, if any, to achieve the full and fair utilization of such persons in the work force.