Welcome to the Office of Inclusive Excellence

Greetings NKU Community,

Thank you for your participation and commitment to developing NKU’s 2022 Inclusive Plan: Catalyzing Institutional and Educational Excellence*. Sixty-five students, faculty and staff worked tirelessly from August 2016 through March 2017 to develop an integrated institutional Inclusive Excellence Plan. In November 2017, the Council for Postsecondary Education (CPE) approved NKU’s Plan which can be located at the bottom of this page.  Paralleling these efforts, the academic colleges and administrative units have developed their individual Inclusive Excellence Plans, which will be posted on the Inclusive Excellence website. The unit level Inclusive Excellence plans align with the institutional plan and offer an opportunity highlight their respective missions and disciplines.

NKU’s Statement on Inclusive Excellence:

• Northern Kentucky University is committed to and accountable for advancing principles and practices of diversity, equity and inclusion into the core aspects of the university.
• Inclusive excellence provides the University with a vision and a practice for collaboratively achieving broad and specific initiatives that ensures success for diverse students; leverages the educational and institutional benefits of diversity; and creates the conditions for the flourishing of all students, faculty and staff.
• We create a culture of inclusion by embracing individual uniqueness, whereby all members of the NKU community experience a sense of belonging through respectful interactions, equitable policies and procedures, and opportunities to fully participate in the life of the university. 

NKU is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion that embraces individual uniqueness and creates a sense of belonging through respectful interactions and opportunities to fully participate in the life of the university. It is our aspiration that the 2022 Inclusive Excellence Plan will serve as NKU’s north star by providing us with a vision and a practice for embedding inclusive excellence into all aspects of the university by collaborating in the design and implementation of broad and specific diversity initiatives; leveraging the educational and institutional benefits of diversity; and creating a community that enables all students, faculty, and staff, whatever their identity, background, or institutional position to thrive, realize their capabilities, engage meaningfully in university life, and contribute to the well-being of others.

With great appreciation,

Kathleen