IU Southeast: Opening New Doors of Opportunity
An emphasis on student success for all has translated into new programs and events highlighting social justice and equity at IU Southeast, interventions targeting at-risk students, and enhanced academic supports. These and other efforts are designed to empower students and provide the tools and connections they need to thrive in college and beyond.
Yearly Highlights:
- Forming the Diversity Hiring Group, a subcommittee of the Chancellor's Diversity Council, to ensure search committee processes are bias free and prioritize diversity. Over the past year, this group has worked diligently to create a search committee DEI checklist and to include a diversity advocate on every search committee.
- Unveiling a new social justice and diversity collection in the IU Southeast Library. The project is dedicated to the memory of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT nurse from Louisville whom law enforcement officers killed in 2020. The collection also contains books designed to honor a range of diverse identities and ethnicities.
- Incorporating a Spanish accessibility option to the IU Southeast website. The move demonstrates a responsiveness to the realities of the Louisville metro area, where 4.5 percent of the population identifies as “Hispanic.”
