“Diversity is among our greatest assets at VCU, and our effort to create and sustain an equitable and inclusive environment is the best approach toward leveraging this asset into universal excellence and success.”
- Dr. Aashir Nasim, Vice President for Inclusive Excellence
OAT works with diversity and inclusion subject matter experts to collect, analyze and communicate institutional data and other information to a wide variety of constituents throughout VCU.
CIM collects and analyzes data from VCU Institutional Research and Decision Support and communicates it to the VCU community and external audiences.
Through education, mentoring and dialogue, IExcel is the premier on-campus destination to learn, engage and reflect with faculty, staff, students and peers on diversity, inclusion and equity.
SIICs promote diversity and inclusion through research, education, advocacy and community partnerships and include iCubed, Q Collective and El Centro Latinx/Chicanx.
April 24, 2020
Whether you are a staff or faculty member, this is a great time to revisit the University’s nondiscrimination policies, including the Notice of Nondiscrimination, Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action, Preventing and Responding to Discrimination, and Accessibility and Reasonable Accommodation for Individuals with Disabilities.
April 17, 2020
The transition [to remote instruction] has illuminated the depth and breadth of our community’s diversity. And, above all, it has affirmed the value of transformative inclusion and equity and the need for us to sustain its presence in physical and social spaces.
April 10, 2020
Our world as we know it is changing by the second. With such uncertainty in even our day-to-day existence, why would accessibility matter?
April 3, 2020
Virginia Commonwealth University is committed to its mission to educate, to innovate, and to provide world-class healthcare and treatment to all who come to us.