MICA complies with all federal, state and local civil rights laws that ban discrimination in Institutions of higher education.

The college will not tolerate discrimination against any member of the MICA community on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, creed, ethnicity,  national origin (including ancestry), physical or mental disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, perceived identity (including appearance), veteran or military status (including special disabled veteran, Vietnam-era veteran, or recently separated veteran), predisposing genetic characteristics, or any other protected status.

MICA will not tolerate retaliation against anyone who makes a good faith report or involved in an investigation.

Bias-related incidents can be related to an event, image, utterance, or behavior that demeans or degrades an individual or group based on their belonging or perceived belonging to a particular identity group. Bias incidents are not required to be violations of any state, federal, or local statutes, and, at the time of reporting, do not have to be determined to have violated other College policies. Although bias-related incidents can also be acts of discriminatory harassment, not all bias-related incidents may constitute discriminatory harassment or a violation of other College policies. Bias-related reports do not themselves trigger a formal process under the College’s discriminatory harassment policies and procedures or other College policies.

Examples of Bias-related conduct, may include but are not limited to:

• Jokes that are demeaning to a group of people based on their actual of perceived membership to a protected class and/or identity group

•  Hosting a tokenizing or culturally themed event, explicitly meant to exclude members who are perceived to or actually do not identify with the particular group