Read about bias incidents reported between 2020 and 2024 below.
A community advisor noticed the “N-word” written on a wall in the Chapel Glen residence...
Several chalk messages were written on sidewalks and plazas on campus—including references to specific individuals...
A student discovered a derogatory slur written on a whiteboard outside a dorm room.
RBIRT has received several reports throughout the semester regarding transphobic and xenophobic flyers posted in...
Stickers with QR codes that linked to an anti-LGBTQIA+ biased website where found outside the...
A community bulletin board featuring Black History Month was twice vandalized in Kahlert Village.
A poster featuring various events was vandalized, with only a Drag Bingo event crossed out...
As an individual got into their car, an unidentified group reversed their vehicle and yelled...
The LGBT Resource Center Instagram account was hacked by an unknown source that changed the...
A patient at a University of Utah Health medical facility verbally and physically assaulted members...
An Israeli flag was defaced outside the University of Utah’s Office for Global Engagement in...
A whiteboard was discovered with various sexualized language, a known homophobic slur, and biased language...
A Resident Advisor reported they found the board tampered with and noticed someone ripped the...
RBIRT received several incident reports regarding flyers that a campus student organization known as Young...
The group chat was "spammed" with inappropriate images, videos, and messages of Islamophobia and xenophobia.
University of Utah Police received various complaints regarding an individual claiming to be a preacher...
During the Utah vs. Florida football game, it was reported that an individual was seen...
A staff member discovered a message spelled out in rocks around a fireplace near the...
A student reported graffiti on the George S. Eccles Legacy Bridge walkway with the words...
A staff member discovered a bulletin board inside the Marriott Center for Dance building with...
A staff member received a hateful, anonymous voicemail intended for the LGBT Resource Center.
A non-university affiliated individual was driving a vehicle on campus that had several spray-painted hate...
A staff member reported finding two “The Toilet Paper” advertising posters damaged in a restroom...
Flyers advertising a watch party of an anti-trans film showed offensive illustration of trans individuals....
A Resident Advisor in a University of Utah Housing and Residential Education residence hall observed...
A patient at a U of U Health medical facility verbally assaulted several members of...
Several University of Utah students in a Snapchat community reported a student member who posted...
Two White-identifying students reported an individual who shouted the "N-word" at them from a moving...
A University of Utah Health employee received an unsigned letter that expressed racist, antisemitic, and...
Students found several pieces of paper around a suggestion box with various racist and homophobic...
Resident Advisors reported that they found an offensive and sexualizing term about women displayed on...
A small note which read “Allahu Akbar >:(” was pinned to Saudi Arabia on a...
Several whiteboard messages used Greek letter designations of fake sororities/fraternities. In one message the letters also...
Two spectators described as making culturally insensitive comments during a game.
Resident Assistants discovered sexual drawings along with biased language targeting women written on several whiteboards...
An unknown individual joined a class chat group, who started “spamming” random messages in the...
A library staff member was told by a public visitor to "go back to his...
A student reported she was harassed by a woman who repeatedly yelled racial slurs and insults.
An individual reported they were subjected to anti-Asian racist slurs and comments throughout the game.
Offensive and sexualizing messages about women were displayed in residence hall window displays.
A video surfaced on social media that disparages and mocks a University of Utah student...
One of the offices of the university’s Center for Child Care and Family Resources received...
A Resident Advisor (RA) in a University Housing residence hall observed a swastika drawn on a whiteboard...
A female resident and her roommates were returning to their room when about six male...
A resident reported that they heard another resident in the laundry room making racist and...
During an introductory meeting for the local chapter of a Recognized Student Organization, two attendees...
A welcome message with the writer's pronouns was altered. Even if intended as a joke,...
A faculty member received threats of violence and intimidation coupled with racial slurs while waiting...
University of Utah Health staff member was responding to a medical crisis and was assaulted...
A spray-painted swastika was discovered on a construction sign just south of the Rehabilitation Hospital.
University of Utah Police took a report from a person whose vehicle had been keyed...
An individual discovered some anti-trans/transphobic vandalism in one of the stalls of a men’s restroom...
During an intramural soccer match, several spectators began to yell/chant a Spanish word that is...
Campus Security officers discovered that the wrapped block U had been vandalized by an unknown...
Posters promoting an event at the Marriott Library were repeatedly removed, crumpled up, and placed...
A Resident Assistant (RA) reported that a resident found a racial slur referring to individuals...
An unknown individual (or group of individuals) disrupted an online seminar and took control of...
A library staff member found biased comments written in a returned book.
A crisis center call line in Hollywood, California, received a call alleging a bomb was placed in...
The University of Utah Racist and Bias Incident Response Team became aware, through an Instagram...
A car parked in the Chapel Glen parking lot was found with a racial slur...
A university contractor was making a delivery when two students shouted the N-word and threw...
Three unknown individuals joined the Muslim Student Association Discord channel and began using racist language...
A member of the campus community reported that they received a text message from an...
An individual reported that one of the posters related to the Ute Proud campaign had...
A patient at a University of Utah Health medical facility verbally and physically assaulted staff...
A poster with offensive words in Spanish and a negative portrayal of a police officer...
During a webinar, Zoom bombers used racist language in their audio feeds, targeting the Black...
A contractor working on a University of Utah construction site, noticed a decal for the...
An unknown individual attempted to have a library employees repeat the title of a book...
A parked car in the Lassonde Studios' parking lot was found defaced with racial and...
Reported vandalism of Kahlert Village's common area included a public display of a slur directed...
An unknown group of individuals “zoom bombed” a meeting using racist and offensive language and...
An unknown group of individuals “zoom bombed” a meeting using offensive sexual and racist videos,...