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University of California Berkeley Campus
January 2005
Racial Harassment and Title VI
Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.), and its implementing regulations, no individual may be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or otherwise be subjected to discrimination on the ground of race, color or national origin in the context of any University academic, athletic, and extracurricular program or activity. It is the policy of the University to comply with Title VI and its implementing regulations. Therefore, the University has a duty to provide a nondiscriminatory environment that is conducive to learning; racial harassment denies students the right to an education free of discrimination.
Effective March 10, 1994, the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, published in the Federal Registrar [Vol. 59, No. 47, page 11448] an investigative guidance regarding what constitutes racial harassment and/or a racially hostile environment in educational institutions, as prohibited by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (referenced as Title VI).
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