AIDS Non-Discrimination

Middlesex County College shall not discriminate against any prospective employee, prospective student, or against any employee or student, based on a diagnosis of AIDS, or asymptomatic Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection.  Middlesex County College shall provide educational programs to members of the College community to increase awareness of HIV infection for the purpose of preventing further spread of the disease.

The College shall ensure that Equal Employment Opportunity and the provision of any and all public services are administered in compliance with the law on behalf of any qualified handicapped person.  The college shall provide reasonable accommodations except where such accommodations would result in a fundamental alteration in the nature of the College’s services, programs or activities or in undue financial and administrative burdens, or where the accommodations are a threat to the health and safety of others.

The President of the College shall establish procedures necessary for the implementation of this policy.

Adopted: September 28, 1994
Revised: November 16, 2009