The Office for Inclusion and Civil Rights (OICR) annually completes the University of Connecticut’s Affirmative Action Plan for Employment (Plan) as required by Connecticut General Statute (CGS) §46a-68 and sections 46a-68-75 to 46a-68-114, inclusive, for submission to the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO).
The Plan
- Establishes hiring, promotional, and program goals that promote affirmative action and equal opportunity.
- Illustrates the University of Connecticut’s good faith efforts to achieve a workforce that is balanced and fully representational of the relevant labor market areas.
- Quantitatively and qualitatively measures the University’s degree of success in accomplishing hiring, promotion, and program goals.
- Examines and eliminates policies and employment practices that adversely affect members of protected classes throughout all aspects of the employment process.
Affirmative Action Plans – Archive
The current UConn and UConn Health Affirmative Action Plans for Employment are available to view here. The materials listed below should be considered for archival purposes. Should you need a document in an accessible format, please contact OICR at equity@uconn.edu.
What is Good Faith?
.. that degree of care and diligence which a reasonable person would exercise in the performance of legal duties and obligations. At a minimum, it includes all those efforts reasonably necessary to achieve full compliance with the law.
Further, it includes additional or substituted efforts when initial endeavors will not meet statutory or regulatory requirements. Finally, it includes documentary evidence of all action undertaken to achieve compliance, especially where requirements have not or will not be achieved within the reporting period established pursuant to section 46a-68-92 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
Affirmative Action Plan Race/Ethnicity Definitions
- WM, WF – White (Not of Hispanic Origin): All people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East.
- BM, BF – Black (Not of Hispanic Origin): All people having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
- HM, HF – Hispanic or Latino: All people having Puerto Rican or Mexican origins, or all people of Cuban, Central, or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
- AM, AF (AAIANHNPI): Combines the Asian and Native American categories (per CHRO)
- Asian: All people in the groups of Asian/Pacific Islander; Asian (all people having origins in any of the original peoples of China, Japan, Korea, Eastern Asia, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent (including Pakistan) or the Pacific Islands including the Philippines and Samoa.)
- Native American: Native American Indian or Alaskan Native (all people having origins in any of the original peoples of North America and who maintain cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community attachment.)
- TM, TF – Two or More Races: All persons identifying with Two or more of the following races: White, Black, Asian, Native American.
- UU – Unknown: Persons who have chosen not to provide their demographic profile.
Review and Approval
Within ninety days of submission, CHRO reviewers are mandated to review and evaluate the Plan to ensure that it contains all required elements and follows the CGS sections 46a-68-75 to 46a-68-114 . The Commission formally votes for approval or disapproval of the Plan based on the reviewer’s recommendations.
The University’s history of approvals has been based on CHRO’s acceptance that the University has demonstrated every good faith effort to meet goals, rather than goal achievement.