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Mission

The mission of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is to foster an inviting learning environment for faculty, staff, and students who bring varied human characteristics, backgrounds, interests, and points of views that serve to enrich the IUPUI community. We will continually endeavor to facilitate, build, and create interaction, understanding, and dialogue between our diverse cultures to achieve an increased inclusive community. Our collective goal is to instill diversity into our institution’s consciousness; reinforce it with equity and inclusion through our policies, practices, and programs; and prepare all members of the community for a multicultural world.

Goals and Objectives

arrow  1. Representational Diversity: 1. Goal: Recruitment, academic achievement, persistence and graduation of a diverse student body.
expand/collapse A. Ensure that the entire student population is at least proportionate to Indiana's in accord with the service mission of each academic unit; those units with statewide missions will have goals reflective of the state whereas other units will have goals reflective of Central Indiana.
expand/collapse B. Create an internationally diverse community by enrolling and graduating students from other nations, providing a variety of opportunities for IUPUI students to study abroad.
arrow  2. Representational Diversity: 2. Goal: Recruit, retain, advance, recognize, and promote a diverse faculty, staff and administration while creating a campus-wide community that celebrates its own diversity as one of its strengths and as a means of shaping IUPUI's identity as a university.
expand/collapse A. Increase the diversity within the senior leadership.
expand/collapse B. Increase the diversity within the faculty and staff to become more reflective of the desired student population.
expand/collapse C. Provide a civil learning and working environment free from discrimination so that each member of the IUPUI community can reach his/her highest potential.
expand/collapse D. Establish high expectations for achievement and reward individuals for achieving these high expectations.
expand/collapse E. Enhance faculty and staff programs and activities that increase the sense of diversity.
arrow  3. Curricular and Co-Curricular Transformation: 1. Goal: Make diversity a strategic priority touching all aspects of the campus mission.
expand/collapse A. Ensure curriculum content and pedagogical strategies reflect a commitment to diversity.
expand/collapse B. Engage in research, scholarship and creative activity that is mindful of the human condition.
expand/collapse C. Maintain and enhance the library collections that reflect the full diversity of the human experience and commentary on it, and resist censorship or restriction of access to scholarly materials.
expand/collapse D. Ensure that civic engagement activities are experienced in a culturally relevant context.
expand/collapse E. Promote culturally competent practices
expand/collapse F. Enhance programs and activities that increase the understanding of diversity.
expand/collapse G. Provide curricular, co-curricular and interdisciplinary activities that increase the ability of students to recognize their own cultural traditions and to understand and appreciate the diversity of the human experience, both within the United States and internationally.
arrow  4. Campus Climate: 1. Goal: Make diversity a strategic priority touching all aspects of the campus mission.
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expand/collapse A. Provide a civil learning and working environment free from discrimination so that each member of the IUPUI community can reach his/her highest potential.
expand/collapse B. Offer a physical environment that is inviting and accessible for all students, faculty, staff, and visitors which allows for full participation in the life and work of the IUPUI community.
arrow  5. Institutional Leadership & Commitment: 1. Goal: Recruit, retain, advance, recognize, and promote a diverse faculty, staff and administration while creating a campus-wide community that celebrates its own diversity as one of its strengths and as a means of shaping IUPUI's identity as a university.
expand/collapse A. Increase the diversity within the campus leadership.
arrow  6. Institutional Leadership & Commitment: 2. Goal: Regularly assess, evaluate, improve, and communicate diversity efforts of IUPUI.
expand/collapse A. Establish appropriate measures and means to assess institutional progress in meeting these goals and objectives.
expand/collapse B. Report publicly on progress.
expand/collapse C. Revise objectives, strategies, and goals as necessary to achieve the campus vision.

Fiscal Health

Reallocation Plan

We will cut Diversity programming for the campus.

Other Question(s)

1) How are you dealing with the projected base budget reductions for 2009-10 and 2010-11? For instance, how will the projected base reductions affect your ability to deliver your current level of services to students, faculty, and staff? Will some planned initiatives have to be delayed or terminated?