Employee Experiences with Bias/Discrimina on Events Employees were asked a series of ques ons about bias/discrimina on events they may have experienced in the college. Prior to being asked specific ques ons, they were provided with the following defini ons: Bias is defined as showing a preference or tendency, conscious or unconscious, which can be for or against a person, group, or thing when compared to another. A bias incident is an incident of verbal or non-verbal conduct that is threatening, harassing, in mida ng, discriminatory or hos le and is based on a category protected under the MSU An -Discrimina on Policy. Please also see the MSU An -Harassment Statement for more informa on. When asked a yes/no ques on about whether they felt discriminated against at the college in the last 12 months, 18.7% of employees responded affirma vely. All employees, regardless of their answer to the general discrimina on ques on, were asked to indicate whether they had experienced one or more of 14 different forms of discriminatory events over the past year. For each employee, a variable was computed using their responses to these ques ons which counted how many mes their selected answer was either 1-2 mes or 3 or more mes. Using this computed 3 variable, 46.4% of employees experienced at least one form of discrimina on at least once in the past 12 months. Chart 2 illustrates the percentage of employees who experienced discrimina on in the past year using both the general yes/no ques on and the computed variable. This data shows: • Women reported experiencing discrimina on at higher rates than men in both the general yes/no ques on and the computed variable. Specifically, 24.7% of women and 10.1% of men reported discrimina on using the yes/no ques on. When using the computed variable, 53.9% of women and 38.0% of men reported experiencing discrimina on. Notably, the rate for men more than tripled when using the computed variable. • In terms of sexual orienta on, there was no difference in the percentage of straight and LGBTQIA2S+ employees experiencing discrimina on according to the general yes/no ques on. However, when using the computed variable, 58.1% of LGBTQIA2S+ employees reported experiencing discrimina on compared to 45.9% of straight employees. • Among racial and ethnic groups, BIPOC employees reported a slightly higher rate of discrimina on than white employees when asked the general yes/no ques on, with rates of 19.4% and 15.5%, respec vely. Using the computed variable, white employees reported higher rates of discrimina on at 45.0%, compared to 41.9% for BIPOC employees. • Academic staff were more likely than faculty and support staff to report experiencing discrimina on when asked the yes/no ques on. When using the computed variable, both academic and support staff reported the highest rates of discrimina on, at 51.9%.
• Employees with 10-19 years of service and those with more than 20 years of service
had the highest percentages of reported discrimina on when asked the general yes/no ques on, with rates of 26.5% and 32.1%, respec vely. Using the computed variable, the percentages significantly increased for all groups; employees with less than 5 years of service, for example, jumped from 9.8% to 44.3%.
3 A computed variable is based on numeric transforma ons of other variables.
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