MANDATORY CATALOG COPY ON NONDISCRIMINATION

AS-2194-94/AA - March 10-11, 1994

WHEREAS, the California State University provides access to all eligible students regardless of race, gender, age, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability or sexual orientation, and

WHEREAS, it is against California State law for an employer or any public agency to discriminate on the basis of any of these characteristics, and

WHEREAS, some CSU campuses reference all of the above characteristics in the nondiscrimination statements in their catalogs, and

WHEREAS, other CSU campuses have not included sexual orientation in their catalog nondiscrimination statements, and

WHEREAS, the CSU statement on nondiscrimination mandated for inclusion in all CSU campus catalogs does not list sexual orientation, therefore be it

RESOLVED: that the Academic Senate of the California State University urge the Chancellor to include sexual orientation in the mandatory catalog copy as one of the characteristics against which the California State University does not discriminate.

APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY -- March 11, 1994