BRT Review
BRT is responsible for reviewing alleged incidents of bias that may have created a hostile environment for BU community members. When a hostile environment exists, BRT will recommend responsive measures to address and remediate the hostile environment. Included below is a flow chart explaining the BRT process.
Hostile Environment Assessment
A hostile environment exists when unwelcome conduct based on someone’s protected status is severe or pervasive enough to limit their participation in a University program or activity. This conduct can be verbal, non-verbal, physical, or non-physical. EOO and BRT judge the alleged conduct from both subjective and objective viewpoints when determining if it is offensive and creates a hostile environment.
Communicating Outcomes
Information related to the BRT review and assessment will be shared with impacted parties in certain circumstances depending on their level of involvement as well as the assessment by BRT. The following list indicates what information will be shared:
- If someone is participating in BRT review and after its review BRT finds:
- No hostile environment – BRT will let the participant know why no hostile environment was found.
- A hostile environment – BRT will inform the participant what responsive measures were implemented to address the hostile environment.
- If someone’s report is designated for further review by BRT, but they do not respond to BRT outreach, BRT will not report the findings (if any) to them.
- Cases where EOO determined the conduct did not create a hostile environment or involves discrimination but the impacted party did not participate in the EOO process are referred to BRT for tracking purposes only and do not result in follow-up communications.