Lincoln University

• Diversity Strategic Plan
   
• CASD Change Agent States for Diversity National Project
   
• National Virtual Diversity Center

The Administration and the Board of Curators recognizes the right of employees to express their concerns and to seek a solution concerning disagreements arising from working relationships, working conditions, employment practices, or differences of interpretation of policy, which might arise, between the University and its employees. To facilitate an outlet for employee expression of a complaint or grievance, the following complaint and grievance procedure has been established.

• Complaint Procedures
   
• Sexual Harassment
   
• Employment Processes

 

 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

The ADA is designed to integrate people with disabilities fully into the mainstream of American life. It protects:

• people who currently have a disability
   
• people who have a history of a disability
   
• people who are regarded as having a disability by others, whether or not they actually have a disability
   
• people who are not themselves disabled but who encounter discrimination on the basis of their association or relationship with a person who has a 
  disability--parents of children with disabilities, for example
   

• ADA The Law United States Department of Justice
   
• ADA Lincoln University GUIDELINES 

 

The Equal Opportunity Staff (EOS) ensures that state employees who implement programs funded by CSREES are aware of employment opportunities and decisions, and that citizens served by these programs have equal access to all program services. The following are Civil Rights policy statements, laws, and departmental regulations that apply to state land-grant universities.

Civil Rights Policy Statements

·   USDA Civil Rights Policy

·   CSREES Civil Rights Policy

Civil Rights Laws, Authorities, and Regulations 

· Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title VI

· Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title VII

· Civil Rights Act of 1991

· Title XI, Education Amendments of 1972

· The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Titles I and V

· Rehabilitation Act of 1973

· Age Discrimination Act of 1967

Civil Rights Agencies and Programs

·   USDA Civil Rights

·   Secretary's Diversity Advisory Council

·   U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division

·   Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

·   U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights

·   U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

·   U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy

For More Information Contact:

Yvonne Matthews, AA/EEO Coordinator
Lincoln University Cooperative Extension
900 Chestnut Street
102A Allen Hall
Jefferson City, Missouri (MO)  65102-0029
Office: (573) 681-5550
Fax: (573) 681-5546
MatthewsY@LincolnU.edu