Affirmative Action & Equal Opportunity (AAEO) Department at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

Do you need advice?
AAEO advises OHSU managers, faculty, staff and students regarding prohibited discrimination and harassment, reasonable accommodation, affirmative action, increasing diversity and awareness. Individuals are guided through the complaint process and given tools to improve the workplace and educational environment, and to prevent prohibited discrimination and harassment.

Do you need education?
AAEO staff, as well as consultants, provides group and individual education to managers, faculty, staff and students regarding prohibited discrimination and harassment, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and cultural competency.

Are you feeling discriminated against or harassed? Have you been accused? Are you a manager or a colleague?
AAEO investigates Civil Rights Complaints by administering an equal opportunity complaint procedure, including investigating allegations of prohibited discrimination and harassment brought by staff, faculty, students, patients and employment applicants of OHSU.

Do you think you are a disabled individual and you need reasonable accommodation? Do you think you need a religious reasonable accommodation?
AAEO works with staff, faculty, students, patients, applicants, and attendees of OHSU-sponsored events who request reasonable accommodations for a disability or religion.

Want to learn about OHSU's Affirmative Action Plan?
In order to comply with federally mandated reporting requirements, AAEO produces OHSU's annual Affirmative Action Plan (AAP). Among other things, the AAP provides analysis of OHSU's workforce to assist OHSU in determining areas of under-representation in the female and minority employee populations.

Do you need guidance to expand your recruitment efforts?
AAEO partners with the Human Resources Department in recruitment of under-represented employees. AAEO also partners with the Office of Academic and Student Affairs and the Center for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs to reach under-represented student applicants who have recently graduated from colleges and universities.

Want some help raising awareness within your department?
AAEO partners with other OHSU departments as well as community service organizations and multicultural communities in civic functions to promote diversity at OHSU and the community at large. AAEO promotes OHSU's goal to raise affirmative action and equal opportunity awareness locally, regionally, nationally and globally.

The Affirmative Action & Equal Opportunity (AAEO) Department is a resource for OHSU staff, faculty, students, patients and employment applicants in their effort to support diversity and prohibit discrimination in all facets of the University's activities, including patient care, education, research, and employment.

Do you need advice?

AAEO advises OHSU managers, faculty, staff and students regarding prohibited discrimination and harassment, reasonable accommodation, affirmative action, increasing diversity and awareness. Individuals are guided through the complaint process and given tools to improve the workplace and educational environment, and to prevent prohibited discrimination and harassment.

Do you need education?

AAEO staff, as well as consultants, provides group and individual education to managers, faculty, staff and students regarding prohibited discrimination and harassment, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and cultural competency.

Are you feeling discriminated against or harassed? Have you been accused? Are you a manager or a colleague?

AAEO investigates Civil Rights Complaints by administering an equal opportunity complaint procedure, including investigating allegations of prohibited discrimination and harassment brought by staff, faculty, students, patients and employment applicants of OHSU.

Do you think you are a disabled individual and you need reasonable accommodation? Do you think you need a religious reasonable accommodation?

AAEO works with staff, faculty, students, patients, applicants, and attendees of OHSU-sponsored events who request reasonable accommodations for a disability or religion.

Want to learn about OHSU's Affirmative Action Plan?

In order to comply with federally mandated reporting requirements, AAEO produces OHSU's annual Affirmative Action Plan (AAP). Among other things, the AAP provides analysis of OHSU's workforce to assist OHSU in determining areas of under-representation in the female and minority employee populations.

Do you need guidance to expand your recruitment efforts?

AAEO partners with the Human Resources Department in recruitment of under-represented employees. AAEO also partners with the Office of Academic and Student Affairs and the Center for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs to reach under-represented student applicants who have recently graduated from colleges and universities.

Want some help raising awareness within your department?

AAEO partners with other OHSU departments as well as community service organizations and multicultural communities in civic functions to promote diversity at OHSU and the community at large. AAEO promotes OHSU's goal to raise affirmative action and equal opportuawareness locally, regionally, nationally and globally.