Grievance Procedures

Discrimination and Harassment Grievances

Compliance and Civil Rights (CCR) is WSU’s central intake and referral office for discrimination and harassment-based violence complaints from students, staff, faculty, and visitors or guests. CCR collaborates with other university offices that receive and address complaints and problems in educational environments and workplaces throughout the university. There are multiple options to individuals with concerns of discrimination and harassment. CCR can meet with you to discuss supportive measures, resolution options, and formal grievance procedures, as well as other confidential and non-confidential resources available to you. CCR can investigate formal complaints of discrimination and harassment.

CCR investigates complaints, facilitates resolutions, and facilitates supportive measures for concerns that implicate the WSU Policy Prohibiting Discrimination and Harassment, utilizing specific procedural guidelines. To learn more about this policy and procedure, please visit the links below:

To learn more about grievance procedures, supportive measures, and options available to you, contact CCR for an intake consultation: ccr@wsu.edu, 509-335-8288, French Administration Building Room 225. Interpretive services and accommodations are available upon request.

CCR follows the following guidelines when investigating a complaint:

CCR Procedural Guidelines

WSU Policy Prohibiting Discrimination and Harassment, UPPM 10.60

Filing a complaint with CCR:

Share a concern of Discrimination and/or Accessibility

File an appeal to the CCR Appeals Committee:

Appeals Submission Form

Consent forms

WSU Records Release Form

Consent to Use Treatment Records

Advisor Identification Form

Information on Disciplinary Procedures:

Standards of Conduct for Students

Employee Manuals

Interpretative services are available upon request.

Advisors and Support Persons:

Participants may have an advisor, who may be a support person or attorney, assist them through their engagement with CCR and any ensuring disciplinary processes, including by attending scheduled interview meetings and hearings. CCR provides opportunities for a participant to consult privately with their advisor. Advisors are not to misuse or disseminate information received throughout the grievance process in a retaliatory fashion. In addition:

  • For UPPM 10.60 Part A matters, CCR engages directly with the participants and does not provide access to investigative records to advisors, unless the advisor is providing legal services for the participant and has filed waivers where appropriate. Participants may share information with their advisor when desired.
  • For UPPM 10.60 Part B matters (involving Title IX Sexual Harassment), CCR engages with participants and their advisors, where the participant has identified an advisor. Advisors and participants are provided with access to review evidence at specific process stages. Further, an advisor, not a party, may participate in cross-examination during the hearing process; for parties who do not have an advisor, WSU will provide one for purposes of the hearing process at no cost.

For helpful information for advisors and support persons, please visit Advisors Guidance website.

Advisor designation and confirmation forms

  • Advisor Designation Form: Participants in UPPM 10.60 Part B matters can identify their advisors through this form.
  • Advisor Confirmation Form: After a participant identifies an advisor, CCR will automatically send a confirmation form to their advisor to complete.

CCR reserves the right to confirm identification as needed by requesting WSU or state issued identification.