Council on Inclusive Excellence

Members- 总统's Council on Inclusive Excellence

多样性 & 包容

Indiana State University embraces diversity and inclusion as core values to cultivate an inclusive 社区.  Advancing diversity and inclusion is not only a goal, but included in the ISU strategic planning process.  ISU celebrates and supports all students, 教职员工 across the educational 社区.  Our varied backgrounds enhance and contribute to our collective educational experiences and worldviews.  Our multifaceted 社区 consists of varying groups that are not defined by: age, 残疾, 遗传信息, 国家的起源, 怀孕, 种族和肤色, 信条, 种族, 宗教, 性, 性别 identity or expression, 性取向, 婚姻状况, 怀孕, 政治 affiliation or veteran status, 等.

Indiana State University is committed to providing equal opportunity in employment and education for all.  Discrimination based upon any protected class is strictly prohibited.

包容的卓越

Inclusive excellence is the recognition that an organization’s success is dependent on how well it values, engages and includes the rich diversity of its 社区 members, 包括它的学生, 教师, 工作人员, 校友, 朋友和附属机构.

Indiana State University is committed to Inclusive Excellence.  Our vision not only reflects the 有意的 integration of critical thinking, 文化 mindfulness and conscientious respect for varied perspectives, but also embodies the ISU core values. Every member of the ISU workforce has a role and responsibility in the active process to address diversity, 公平与包容.

The changing demographics encourages us to enhance our institutional operations and practices so that Inclusive Excellence becomes the norm through strategic planning: learning, 全球合作, 机构发展, and research and teaching through curricular and co-curricular activities.

Our standard of excellence is the expectation for ALL students is reflected through high quality learning, equity minded administrators, 教职员工, and progressive student success initiatives that enhance and prepares ALL members of the student body to live and work in a democratic society.

多样性: Individual differences (e.g., personality, prior knowledge, and life experiences) and group/社会 differences (e.g., 种族/民族, class, 性别, 性取向, 原产国, and ability as well as 文化, 政治, 宗教, or other affiliations) (AACU)

股本: The creation of opportunities for historically underserved populations to have equal access to and participate in educational programs that are capable of closing the achievement gaps in student success and completion (AACU)

包容:主动, 有意的, and ongoing engagement with diversity—in the curriculum, 在联合课程中, and in communities (intellectual, 社会, 文化, geographical) with which individuals might connect—in ways that increase awareness, 内容知识, 认知复杂性, and empathic understanding of the complex ways individuals interact within systems and institutions (AACU)

社会正义: An analysis of how power, privilege, and oppression impact our experience of our 社会 identities. “Full and equal participation of all groups in a society that is mutually shaped to meet their needs. Social justice includes a vision of society in which the distribution of resources is equitable” and all members of a space, 社区, 或机构, or society are “physically and psychologically safe and secure.(Adams等人). 2016)

Association of American 大学 and Universities

亚当斯，M等人. (2016). Teaching for 多样性 and 社会正义. 纽约:劳特利奇出版社. p. 1.