Student Culture & Climate Survey 2024

Table 8.1. Type and Frequency of Bias/Discriminatory Events Experienced

Over the past 12 months, how often, if at all, have you experienced incidences of bias/discrimination at the Broad College because of your:

3 or more times

% Experiencing Behaviors

Never 96.1%

1-2 times

3.2%

0.6%

Ability or disability status

957

3.9%

920

90.4%

7.9%

1.7%

Racial or ethnic identity

957

9.6%

865

89.9%

8.8%

1.3%

Sex

954

10.1%

858

96.3%

3.2%

0.4%

Sexual orientation

954

3.7%

919

94.8%

4.6%

0.6%

Gender identity or gender expression

955

5.2%

905

98.5%

1.3%

0.2%

Veteran status

954

1.5%

940

95.3%

4.2%

0.5%

Relationship status

954

4.7%

909

91.1%

7.0%

1.9%

National origin

952

8.9%

867

93.3%

5.8%

0.9%

Age

956

6.7%

892

92.4%

6.2%

1.5%

Religion

957

7.6%

884

93.0%

5.9%

1.2%

Height or weight

954

7.0%

887

89.5%

8.0%

2.5%

Political orientation

955

10.5%

855

93.4%

5.5%

1.0%

Social class or socioeconomic status

958

6.6%

895

93.7%

5.7%

0.6%

Mental health status

954

6.3%

894

Table 8.2 and Table 8.3 show the results by demographic group. This data shows: • Men reported slightly higher rates of experiencing discriminaon, at 6.5%, compared to women at 4.0% when asked the general yes/no queson. However, when using the computed variable, 31.8% of women and 26.0% of men reported experiencing discriminaon. • The most common forms of discriminaon experienced by women included sex discriminaon at 13.0%, followed by racial or ethnic discriminaon at 9.8%. For men, the most frequent type of discriminaon was based on polical orientaon, at 12.6%. On average, women experienced 2.72 different forms of discriminaon, while men experienced 3.66.