The North Carolina State University Office for Equal Opportunity has provided this training module to increase knowledge of correct, legal, and recommended hiring practices within the university community.
"As a public institution, we must guarantee to all people equal access to real opportunities for development and growth that our university creates through its enterprise. Equal opportunity and the resulting diversity it produces benefits everyone. Students gain role models and a real sense of the multi-cultural society that they're about to enter. Likewise, the entire NC State community benefits from diverse perspectives and opinions that often follow from differences in gender, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, and ability among its members, not to mention the breadth of viewpoints and ideas represented in the numerous other ways that each of us in our own unique way contributes to our collective diversity. Finally, let's not overlook that when we engage in providing the principles of equal opportunity to others, we are helping to ensure that we, as individuals, will be afforded the same chances for ourselves.
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