IU’s Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs (OVPDEMA) annual report for the 2016-17 academic year features a number of significant milestones related to diversity and inclusion. We invite you to learn more about IU’s student enrollment, retention, and graduation rates in the report.
Campus Pride, a national nonprofit network of student leaders and campus groups devoted to improving college life for lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, and queer students across the U.S., named IU Bloomington in its 2017 list of top LBGTQ-friendly colleges, an accolade the campus received for the fifth time.
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INSIGHT Into Diversity, the oldest and largest diversity-focused magazine in higher education, recently honored the IU Bloomington campus with a Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award for the third year in a row, while the IUPUI campus won a HEED Award for the sixth consecutive year.
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Gabriel Escobedo, Graduate Assistant at La Casa Latino Cultural Center
“Immediately, the directors treated me like family. I felt like they were my aunts.”
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Grace Shen, 2016 IU Bloomington Commencement Speaker
“When you do start the conversation, you learn a lot from each other.”
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Alaina Roberts, Ph.D recipient
“I found out that there had not really been much research done on that at all and so, I wanted to tell the story of my ancestors and other people like them.”
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Diversity and multiculturalism show the true strength of a campus. In order to tackle broader issues facing us, we must bring together and reconcile our differences, and tap into the wealth of our diversity.
Mark Jallayu, IU Southeast Student Government Association President
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Asian Culture Center
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Asian Culture Center
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La Casa / Latino Cultural Center
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Asian Culture Center
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