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Workplace Harassment Prevention Course Collection for Higher Ed

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About This Collection

This comprehensive collection of online courses addresses workplace harassment fundamentals, sexual harassment, bystander intervention, and cyber harassment for all employees, and includes a module specific to supervisors.

For an alternative workplace harassment training option that covers similar content, please review Mosaic: Prevent Harassment and Discrimination Together.

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Responding to Pregnant Employees: PWFA and PUMP Act

Pregnancy and pumping accommodation missteps are a growing source of legal, financial, and reputational risk for K–12 schools and higher education institutions. Managers are often the first to receive these requests, yet many lack clear guidance on how to respond. This course equips managers with practical, scenario-based training on PWFA and PUMP Act requirements, helping institutions reduce pregnancy discrimination claims, improve compliance, and support employees consistently. By focusing on real decisions managers face, the course helps schools address risk proactively before everyday interactions escalate into formal complaints.

Audience

Supervisors

Course Length

20 min.

Languages

English

This course will help learners:

  • Summarize key federal legal protections for employees related to pregnancy, childbirth, and family or medical leave.
  • Recognize their managerial responsibilities under PFWA and PUMP, and how these laws intersect in real workplace situations.
  • Apply compliant decision-making when handling accommodation, leave, or pumping requests.
  • Demonstrate how to communicate with employees respectfully and legally during accommodation or leave processes.
  • Recognize and address behaviors or statements that could lead to discrimination, retaliation, or confidentiality breaches.

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Workplace Harassment Prevention – Faculty & Staff

Learn about workplace harassment and discrimination: what it is, how to recognize it, and the best ways to stop it.

Audience

Faculty & Staff

Course Length

30 minutes

Languages

English

Workplace Harassment Prevention – Faculty & Staff

This course will help learners:

  • List types of behaviors that are considered harassment.

  • Describe federal definitions of protected categories.

  • Recall ways to report and stop harassing behavior.

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Workplace Harassment Prevention – Supervisors

Supervisors play a unique role when it comes to harassment and discrimination. Not only are they accountable for their own actions, they also must understand their responsibilities when witnessing or learning about harassing behaviors. This course also includes content found in the faculty & staff version.

Audience

Supervisors

Course Length

20 minutes

Languages

English

This course will help learners:

  • Describe how to handle reports of discrimination, including harassment, from employees.
  • Recognize what steps to take after a report to ensure your employees feel safe and supported and that your institution is protected.
  • Identify how to avoid retaliation or the appearance of it if an accusation is made.

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Recognizing and Avoiding Race, Color, and National Origin Discrimination

This course examines how race, color, and national origin discrimination can occur in the workplace. Supervisors learn how to spot discrimination and what to do to create a healthy working environment for all employees, free from harassment and discrimination. Using real-life scenarios, this course walks learners through different types of discrimination and provides helpful guidance on how to create a more equitable work environment.

Audience

Supervisors

Course Length

15 minutes

Languages

English

This course will help learners:

  • Recognize different types of race, color, and national origin discrimination.
  • Understand policies that may be harmful to employees.
  • Feel more empowered to improve the work environment for everyone.

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Recognizing and Avoiding Age Discrimination – Supervisors

This course examines age discrimination in the workplace from the viewpoint of a supervisor. It covers what it is, how to spot it in your work environment, and shares helpful tips for avoiding adverse employment actions based on age.

Audience

Supervisors

Course Length

15 minutes

Languages

English

This course will help learners:

  • Recognize the nuances of ageism and age discrimination in the workplace
  • Define both "disparate treatment" and "disparate impact"
  • Understand how to better manage employees of different generations

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Recognizing and Avoiding Retaliatory Behavior – Supervisors

Retaliation is involved in over half of the discrimination charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. This course intends to curtail discrimination and retaliation charges against supervisors by teaching you what retaliation is, providing you with practical guidelines for recognizing and avoiding it, and ensuring you as a supervisor are equipped to protect your employees' rights.

Audience

Supervisors

Course Length

15 minutes

Languages

English

This course will:

  • Teach supervisors about retaliation.
  • Provide practical guidelines for recognizing and avoiding retaliation.
  • Help supervisors ensure their employees’ rights are protected.

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Preventing Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment in the workplace affects not only the victims but also co-workers and the campus community as a whole. This course helps learners understand the types of sexual harassment that typically occur in the workplace, consequences of sexual harassment, and reporting options.

Audience

Faculty & Staff, Supervisors

Course Length

20 minutes

Languages

English

This course will help learners:

  • Define sexual harassment and identify various behaviors that could be considered sexual harassment.
  • Differentiate between quid pro quo and hostile environment harassment.
  • Recognize common side effects of sexual harassment for victims.

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Bystander Intervention

This course teaches employees the tools to maintain a harassment-free workplace. This course offers learners strategies for doing their part to combat harassment.

Audience

Faculty & Staff, Supervisors

Course Length

30 minutes

Languages

English

This course will help learners:

  • Explain the importance of bystander intervention in maintaining a healthy workplace.
  • Recognize the psychological reasons why intervention can be difficult.
  • List the best tactics for intervening (direct, delegate, distract, and delay).

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Preventing Cyber Harassment

This course covers what "cyber harassment" is, explains why it's proliferated in recent years, identifies how bystanders can help, and details how the law and institutional policies protect employees from cyber harassment​.

Audience

Faculty & Staff, Supervisors

Course Length

20 minutes

Languages

English

This course will help learners:

  • Define cyber harassment and explain why the prevalence of cyber harassment has increased in recent years.
  • Describe the differences between how a perpetrator might harass a victim in-person versus electronically.
  • Recall how “online disinhibition” affects cyber harassment.
  • Recognize how the law and institutional policies protect employees from harassment.

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