Last year our president, Mark Schlissel, charged the university with creating a five year strategic plan to address the issues of diversity, equity and inclusion on our campus. As a community, we conducted surveys, held focus groups and had many discussions about the many facets that need to be addressed in crafting such a plan. Each school on campus submitted their plan to the Provost’s Office for review and, over the summer, those plans were woven together to help create a university wide plan. In October we launched our plan and many activities have already taken place. Our Communications and Outreach office has written an article about some of these activities. As many of the prospective students I speak with ask about issues related to diversity and inclusion, I thought you might find it interesting and hope you will read it when you have a few minutes.

Best wishes, Beth