Diversity is one of the most powerful gifts a university can offer. The Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs ensures that all Indiana University campuses celebrate diversity and empower all students, faculty, staff and alumni to do their best work.
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 second year in a row, while the IUPUI campus won a HEED Award for the fifth consecutive year.
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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 2016 list of top LBGTQ-friendly colleges, an accolade the campus received for the fourth time.
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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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Chantel White, Groups Scholar
“Our parents tried as hard as they could, but they didn’t know the first thing about buying college textbooks.”
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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
