Colleges and universities should also protect BIPOC women from inappropriate resistance from students and colleagues. To do so, they should:
Establish a policy for disruptive student classroom behavior. That behavior includes challenging BIPOC women’s authority and questioning their expertise, as well as various forms of harassment. BIPOC women often have no institutional recourse when they face raced and gendered challenges from students. Instead of leaving them to fend for themselves in a hostile climate, each institution should establish a policy for disruptive classroom behavior. It should highlight that policy at the institutional level -- for example, in student and faculty handbooks -- to make it clear certain classroom behavior is inappropriate and that students who harass BIPOC faculty in the classroom will face consequences. At a minimum, the policy should include a nonexhaustive list of behaviors that disrupt the learning environment and the procedure for addressing those behaviors.