Gloria hired two graduates of state college in the past, but both of them turned out to be poor coders and one committed a hipaa violation. for these reasons, gloria does not hire graduates of state college anymore. this is an example of:

This is an example of "Stereotyping".

Stereotyping simply put is the attributes or standards set for a particular group based on certain quality they share like race, origin or religion etc. In this case Gloria imposed the characteristics that anyone coming from State College will have the same problems gain and again making it a stereotyping situation.