View the MU Inclusive Excellence Plan

Plan Highlights

• Implement holistic admissions processes (Health Professions)
• Develop recruitment strategies undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from traditionally underrepresented high schools and universities
  • College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources
  • Engineering
  • Enrollment Management
  • Health Professions
  • Human Environmental Sciences
  • Inclusion, Diversity & Equity (IDE)
  • Journalism
  • Law
  • Medicine
  • Sinclair School of Nursing
  • Veterinary Medicine
• Partner with state and national consortia of graduate schools to reach underrepresented students interested in graduate/professional study and careers in academia (IDE and Graduate Studies)
• Expand Grow-Your-Own Teachers program (College of Education)

• Facilitate a Faculty Institute for Inclusive Teaching (IDE)
• Lead a digital accessibility project campus-wide collaboration (Division of Information Technology and IDE)
• Provide mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion training for students through Citizenship@Mizzou (IDE)
• Create a transfer student center (VP for Undergraduate Studies)
• Review and create mentoring programs for faculty and students
  • Engineering
  • IDE
  • Journalism
  • Student Affairs
  • Undergraduate Studies

• Create the Middleton Center for the study of diversity and inclusion (Arts and Science)
• Provide organizational and individual-level training for faculty and staff
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • IDE
• Explore expanding the College of Arts & Science’s diversity course requirement campus-wide
• Review curriculum and courses for inclusion and diversity
  • College of Agriculture, Food, & Natural Resources
  • Engineering
  • Journalism
  • Business

• As a whole, demonstrate significant investment of human and financial resources for inclusion and diversity, and identify gaps in outcomes and propose innovative initiatives (campus-wide)
• Review and revise processes and materials related to faculty and staff hiring/promotion (Human Resources, academic units)
• Create of the Council for Inclusive Excellence as a Chancellor’s Standing Committee (Chancellor’s Office, IDE)
• Establish campus and unit level diversity dashboards (IDE, Enrollment Management and Human Resources)

• Expand the Youth Futures program to prepare students across Missouri for college (Extension)
• Expand STEM Cubs (Engineering and IDE)
• Establish Inclusive Excellence partnerships with Columbia Chamber of Commerce, City of Columbia, Heart of Missouri United Way, Boone County (IDE)