The Affirmative Action Office is responsible for administering the Graduate Center’s recruitment, hiring, appointment, and equal opportunity policies and procedures ensuring compliance with related laws, rules, and regulations dealing with human rights. This includes providing the entire Graduate Center community with training on search procedures and human rights policies, developing and administering the Graduate Center's Affirmative Action Plan, collecting and analyzing employee statistical data, maintaining records and preparing and submitting required internal and external reports, investigating human rights complaints (i.e., sexual harassment, discrimination, etc.), and administering the internal discrimination procedures.

The Affirmative Action Office is available to assist the campus community with its recruitment and retention efforts and provide guidance regarding its equal employment opportunity and affirmative action policies and procedures.

   
Edith Rivera, M.P.A.
Affirmative Action Officer