What a bias incident is
Conduct — a slur, graffiti, targeted harassment, an exclusionary act — motivated by someone's race, religion, disability, national origin, gender, sexual orientation or similar. It may or may not rise to a policy violation or a crime, and reporting it does not require the reporter to decide which. The point is that the university sees the pattern and can respond.
What follows a report
A staff member from the Dean of Students Office contacts the affected person within a couple of business days to offer support — academic flexibility, a housing change, a referral to counseling or the police — and explains the options. If the responsible person is known and the conduct may violate the student code, it goes to the conduct process. Aggregate, de-identified data is reported publicly each year.
In and around Porter Falls
Student life at Porter is organised out of Founders Union, the building students call the campus living room. The Dean of Students Office is on the second floor.
The practical details
Report: Online form, or in person at the Dean of Students Office. Who can report: The person affected, or a witness — anonymous reports are accepted. Not the same as: A criminal complaint or a formal discrimination charge, though a report can lead to either. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Dean of Students Office (Founders Union, Room 200). Call (715) 555–0182 or email deanofstudents@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.