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 developed their individual Inclusive Excellence Plans that align with the institutional plan, while offering the opportunity to highlight their respective missions and disciplines. All Plans will soon be posted on the inclusive@nku.edu

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’s 2022 Inclusive Excellence Plan provides the vision and the practices to make visible the University’s commitment to becoming a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community.

With great appreciation,

Kathleen