Equal Opportunity & Outreach

At WPI, we are dedicated to fostering a welcoming, respectful, and safe working and learning community. Our Equal Opportunity and Outreach office plays a crucial role in achieving this goal by designing and implementing initiatives based on best practices in workforce planning and management. Through our work, we promote inclusive excellence and belonging to create an environment where students, faculty, and staff feel accepted and valued, and in which their perspectives are recognized and appreciated.

We provide guidance to address and resolve matters related to civil rights, including employment discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. We offer alternate resolution services when appropriate, and we support efforts to attract and retain students, faculty, and staff.

The following two principles inform and guide our commitment to maintaining a respectful, inclusive, and intellectually rigorous community:

WPI will uphold its values: Respect, Community, Inclusion, Innovation, and Achievement. We support and respect every member of our community.
WPI will honor its obligation to comply with legal and regulatory requirements.

Our office is here to support every member of our community, and we welcome continued dialogue to address any concerns and enhance our efforts.

Preventing Sexual Misconduct

WPI’s approach to preventing sexual misconduct is comprehensive and progressive. All members of the WPI community are protected by federal and state laws that prohibit discrimination based on sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, and transgender status.

WPI is committed to providing a learning, living, and working environment free from sex-based discrimination. It expresses the community's expectations in the Interim Title IX & Sexual Misconduct Policy.

Through this Interim Title IX & Sexual Misconduct Policy, WPI complies with applicable federal and state anti-discrimination laws, including but not limited to Title IX (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities), Title VII (which prohibits unlawful discrimination in employment, including based on sex), Mass. Gen. Laws chapters 151B and 151C (the state laws that prohibit unlawful discrimination in employment and education based on sex), Massachusetts’ “An Act Relative To Sexual Violence On Higher Education Campuses (the state law that requires colleges to respond to sexual violence).

WPI strongly encourages any student, faculty member, or staff member who has concerns about sexual misconduct to seek the assistance of those listed below. WPI strongly encourages anyone who has information about sexual misconduct that may also be a crime to report it to the WPI Police Department. Confidential Resource Advisors are available to discuss your options without a report being made to WPI.

Please note, WPI cannot engage in any social media conversations about sexual misconduct or sexual assault. We strongly encourage our community to share any concerns of sexual misconduct or assault with the appropriate university resources.

Meet the Team

WPI’s Equal Opportunity & Outreach Team includes the Senior Director, Equal Opportunity & Outreach, Director of Employee Engagement, Assistant Director, Equal Opportunity & Outreach/Investigator, Deputy Title IX Coordinators, and the Confidential Resource Advisors (CRA’s).

The Equal Opportunity & Outreach Team works closely with the Dean of Students Office (students) and Division of Talent & Inclusion (employees). Please reach out to titleix@wpi.edu with any questions.

The Clery Act

Federal legislation requires institutions of higher education to inform members of our community, including prospective students and employees, about its most recent crime/incident statistics; crime prevention and security programs and activities; policies concerning the reporting of crime; and related information in accordance with the Federal Campus Security Act, commonly referred to as the Clery Act.

You may obtain this information by contacting the WPI Police Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609 or call 508-831-5433. This information is also available on the WPI Police Department’s website.

WPI Police 2022-23 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report

Preventing Sexual Misconduct

What to Do When a Student Discloses Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, Relationship Violence and/or Stalking

Harassment and Discrimination Policies

Meet the Team

Office of Equal Opportunity & Outreach

Deputy Title IX Coordinators

For Students

For Faculty

For Staff

The Clery Act

You may obtain this information by contacting the WPI Police Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609 or call 508-831-5433. This information is also available on the WPI Police Department’s website.