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The seven recipients of the inaugural 2022 NEIU President's Inclusive Excellence and Diversity Awards smile and hold their trophies alongside President Gibson and the Executive Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
8 Faculty and staff sit together at two round tables smiling and talking with each other while two staff members stand and talk to each other in the background during the reception for the Center for College Access and Success Distinguished Guest Lecturer, Brandon P. Fleming, author of (Mis)Educated: A Memoir.
28 faculty and staff who played in the inaugural Joy and Wellness Softball Tournament wear their blue and yellow softball jerseys and smile for a group photograph at the NEIU baseball field.
A masked NEIU mascot Goldie and a student face each other in a dance pose outside the main campus. In the background, Valentina Gamboa-Turner, associate director of the Angelina Pedroso Center for Diversity and Intercultural Affairs wears a t-shirt that reads "No human is illegal" while looking in the direction of students tabling under a yellow tent for the Latinx Heritage Month 2021 kick-off event.
Shireen Roshanravan, Brandon P. Fleming, and Irma Ortiz smile for a photograph in front of a white staircase at the Northeastern Illinois University Main Campus student union. Irma Ortiz, senior director of the Center for College Access and Success and Shireen Roshanravan, executive director of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, co-sponsored Brandon P. Fleming's visit to NEIU as the CCAS Distinguished Guest Lecture on August 26, 2022.
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Mission

The Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (OEDI) provides leadership, vision and accountability on NEIU’s commitments to:

  • foster diversity and inclusive excellence  
  • institutionalize culturally responsive teaching, learning and programming
  • resolve systemic inequities and 
  • create a welcoming, supportive and respectful environment for all.

We hope you will engage with us in this important work and look forward to connecting with you!

Defining Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Equity, diversity and inclusion are critical to advancing academic excellence and the overall success of our students, faculty and staff. We must not only define these words, we must also be vigilant in our commitment to build and sustain a community that embraces these core values. 

After two rounds of community input during the Fall 2021, the following definitions currently serve as NEIU’s shared institutional understanding of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion:

EQUITY is the balance achieved when everyone receives what they need to successfully pursue their goals without having to sacrifice their integrity or well-being. Achieving equity requires a commitment to identify and rectify systemic exploitation, disenfranchisement, disregard, disrespect and exclusion that has institutionalized unequal access to opportunities, networks, resources and support in higher education. 

DIVERSITY is the range of differences that shape who we are, who we are expected to be and become, and the likelihood we will face barriers in pursuit of our goals. Fostering diversity requires a commitment to understand, value and engage differences in backgrounds, identities, abilities, cultures and experiences for their capacity to help us identify and rectify structural inequities.

INCLUSION is the experience of feeling welcomed, respected, valued and supported within a social, educational or professional community. Inclusion requires ensuring that the knowledge systems, perspectives and experiences of all community members inform equitable decision-making processes, policies, practices, social and material infrastructure that govern institutions of higher education. The perspectives and experiences of those historically excluded from and marginalized within higher education and its shared governance processes should be centrally engaged to ensure a comprehensive understanding of the barriers to true inclusion and how best to overcome them.

 

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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

  • Courageous Action for Racial Equity (CARE) Lecture Series
  • OEDI Contact Information
  • Equity Plan
  • Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT)
  • Glossary Project
  • Land Acknowledgement and Action Committee (LAAC)
  • Angelina Pedroso Center for Diversity and Intercultural Affairs
    • About APCDIA
    • Meet the Team
    • Signature Celebration & Affinity Events
      • LGBTQ+ History Month
      • Latine/a/o/x Heritage Month Celebration
      • Native American and Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month
      • Pride College Prep
      • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
      • Black History Month
        • Black Heritage Awards
      • Women's History Month
      • APIDA Heritage Month
    • K(NO)W More
      • What is Sexual Violence?
      • How Do I Get Help?
      • What is a Confidential Advisor?
      • What is Title IX?
      • Schedule a K(NO)W More Training
      • Resources for Undocumented & International Students
      • Frequently Asked Questions
      • Red Folder
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        • Workshop Request Form
      • The Social Justice Ally Initiative
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      • Murrell J. Higgins Duster Scholarship
        • Scholarship Recipients
      • The Council on the Status of Latinxs
        • About CSL
        • CSL Executive Board
        • Resources
      • Lactation Room
      • Pedroso Book Checkout
      • Get Involved
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